A friend of mine bougut this card a week ago, he said the card wasn't stable when playing metro 2033. So he asked me to check the card for him. I tested the card under full load in an open case, nothing happened. So I tried to remove the card from the mb. However, I felt pain when I touched the back of the pcb!!!!! So I tried to get a thermal sensor on the mosfet area, the result is beyond my imagination...


92 degree c ... and the heatsink is on the front side of the mosfet. I guessed the mosfet itself must be over 100degree c.

So I tried to test the same area of my reference gtx 460 card.


it only went to 78 degree c, it is a normal temperature I guessed. But no heatsink on the front side of mosfet.

I also searched the google and found the serveal compaints about this card, maybe the reason why this card is not stable under full load (because mosfet is overheating.)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...scrollFullInfo