Quote Originally Posted by BababooeyHTJ View Post
With all of the issues with burnt up vrms on GTX570 I'm really not surprised. I just don't understand why Nvidia is cheaping out on the voltage regulation on expensive, power hungry, high end cards



If people are popping cards with a minimal voltage boost then who is to say how this will hold up to long term day to day use. I also think that a $700 video card should be built with enthusiasts in mind like 6990. There is no reason that there isn't some sort of hardware over current protection like we saw kick in on 4870, etc with OCCT.
i dont get why NV continues to sell anything thats gf100 based, they have gf104 based cards that have the same shader count*shader clock rating but then they are not rop starved and use less power. like the 590 uses an under clocked rop starved gf100 when they had the stock clocked full gf104 that was the same gflops and had more rops. the only market the gf100 stuff makes sense for is the benching community and they will not run an x2 they will run 4 cards given the choice so this card serves no purpose other than to prove that NV has no idea what they are doing or they think that they will have the same problem as ati when they made the high end mobile parts barts bassed even thought that was quicker and lower watt than the under clocked to end part.

if u look at the mobile parts on NV they do the same stupid crap as this and instead of using a gf104 they use a gf100 part and under clock and lock it to 384 shaders (althogh it looks like post launch some are saying that its a gf104 but the initial cards shown were square dies so gf100)

Quote Originally Posted by highoctane View Post
I would say pumping the voltage on any component poses risks, your mb has enough voltage range to toast your OC marketed cpu or OC markted memory if you use enough juice, or even the pwm on the mb itself.

Just because you can doesn't mean it's going to be ok if you do juice a part.

on the breaking cards, people are getting dead MBs from to much pci-e draw and dead pwms and traces without overvolting and even at stock. if u cannot deliver stock clocks or an overclock up to the max that your software lets it do without changing the voltage and it dies on an overclocking part there is something wrong.