Quote Originally Posted by Lu(ky View Post
Here another review from TechPowerUp -----> HERE Also read the OVERCLOCKING section of the review.. All I can say is yikes there card was a pop corn popping card then BOOM!!!!

Parts of that blew on there card..

This is driver problem. 267.52 has no OCP! With 267.71 everything is fine.

http://www.sweclockers.com/nyhet/137...boven-i-dramat
High-performance graphics card Geforce GTX 590 balances on the verge of what is practically possible to handle in terms of power consumption and heat development. Even worse is the situation when overclocking.
In order not to risk the components damaged are blocks built in drivers to say from when limit values are exceeded. SweClockers testers Jonas Eriksson tells what happened when the graphics card you take 12 000 SEK went up in smoke.
The first graphics card gave up the spirit when I user overclockable with the increase of the voltage to the GPU. I was thinking not so much more on it, after all things that can happen and there are always Monday specimens, in particular as regards the early "samples".
Shortly afterwards snappade Andreas up more suffered the same misfortune and we decided to explore it all together with Nvidia.
An additional video card had to be sacrificed in order to come to the conclusion that it is driver 267.52, which is the culprit. The experiment was repeated with newer 267.71 and then worked Nvidias safeguards that they would.The essence of it all is to install the latest software from Nvidias website and at all costs avoid the driver that is included in the box, which is precisely the wrong version 267.52. The who plan to overclock should also make sure that you have good ventilation in the chassis and be aware that your warranty is if frequencies are increased over specifications.