Quote Originally Posted by Musho View Post
The VRMs don't pop. The card simply crashes and goes into a protection mode, because furmark (or was it OCCT?) was causing the OCP to kick in. Still a design flaw, but it only affected benchers and people running stresstests. Wasn't causing any problems for real games. Still a serious and bad problem though

I haven't heard of any cards hitting 120C though
I have seen the case with a HD 4850 Sapphire classic 2 slots cooler on a bad ventilated mid-ATX case with Furmark. Really massive heat

the card is designed to withstand 120°C operating temperatures - W1zzard
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