A GTX 590 gets MELTED by Star citizen alpha!

[Blackterror25]

Damn, I heard about cards burning because of to high frame rate in menu's before but I thought that was a thing of the past and nothing to worry about now.
Apparently not ...

[Forza-x73]

Soooo, why did I buy that 770 remind me?

[Talsyrius]

I don't get it. How can a card overheat because of software? Isn't it rated to be able to run under maximum load? I mean you have a fixed voltage and clock speed, so how can it go beyond that? To me it just sounds as if it was an unstable overclock that didn't get load tested before, and once it did it failed. Big surprise...

[LegendKillerRG]

Linus has a GTx 590 with a water block, hopefully he use it and see if it burns lol...

[silencerbob]

"Who's gunna buy a pill that makes you go blind?"

"Let's let marketing decide that"

[Krash]

I just pledged on Star Citizen, got the Constellation and the hanger pkg and my GTX580 ran smoothly, no lag, had the jitter thing they talk about but it still looked awesome. The fans kicked up some, but hey, that's expected.

[brownninja97]

doesnt the 590 have some sort of protection 

The thermal diode is normally coded to fail at 115oc if im correct, it acts as a killswitch to windows. Sadly it doesnt always fail, the failure rate it not fail(the rate for it to not do what it should) is very very low but as with all technology shit happens. I had a sandy bridge celoron for a customer and for some reason i completely forgot about the cooler, it recorded 150oc for 10 minutes via a windows gadget before it died, for some odd reason i was looking in the cpu wondering what the problem was, im surprised that it booted without anything in the cpu fan pin.

[JaeDee884]

I just pledged on Star Citizen, got the Constellation and the hanger pkg and my GTX580 ran smoothly, no lag, had the jitter thing they talk about but it still looked awesome. The fans kicked up some, but hey, that's expected.

Necroing a thread is against CoC, i see your new but, I'd just recommend reading the Coc if you're not used to forums yet

Welcome to the forum!

[SubTract]

Necroing a thread is against CoC, i see your new but, I'd just recommend reading the Coc if you're not used to forums yet

Welcome to the forum!

To be fair the forum is kind of broken at the moment. Not only did spoiler tags break, But old threads are appearing on the front pages and some new threads 5 or more pages in.

To anybody not familiar with the tiny date and time stamps on the threads it can be very misleading.

[TheMissxu]

To be fair the forum is kind of broken at the moment. Not only did spoiler tags break, But old threads are appearing on the front pages and some new threads 5 or more pages in.

To anybody not familiar with the tiny date and time stamps on the threads it can be very misleading.

Main/Current Rig:

    CPU: AMD Phenom II x6 1055t (previously now dead 1090t)

    CPU Cooler: CM Hyper 212+

    RAM: 16GB Gskill RipJaws 1600Mhz (4x4GB)

    GPU: AMD HD 6970 x2 (Crossfire) Mobo: AsRock 990fx Extreme 3

    PSU: Antec High Current Gamer 900W

    Storage: 240GB intel 520 SSD (OS), 2x 2TB Seagate Barracuda

    Case: Thermaltake Spacecraft Vf-I

Second/Old Rig:

    CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600

    CPU Cooler: CM V8

    RAM: 4GB Corsair 800Mhz (4x1GB)

    GPU: ATI Radeon HD 4870x2 (Single Card)

    Mobo: Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3

    PSU: Thermaltake 750W

    Storage: WD VelociRaptor 300GB HDD (OS), 2x500GB WD Caviar (Blue)

    Case: Thermaltake Soprano

Just remove =rigs

[FireFox]

I hope that a 770 is able to run at medium settings because its graphically intensive and not cause of uber poor optimization 

 

Same here, I really want that game but I've got a GeForce GTX 660, if the 770 is going to struggle then I'm thoroughly f**ked lol

[FireFox]

I just pledged on Star Citizen, got the Constellation and the hanger pkg and my GTX580 ran smoothly, no lag, had the jitter thing they talk about but it still looked awesome. The fans kicked up some, but hey, that's expected.

 

GeForce GTX 580 ehh, she may be an old card now but sure is powerful still

[TopWargamer]

Sssshhh my precious 7950. I will not let you near that thing in this state. Everything will be alight. Sssshhhh

[atomicmonkey101]

you know its good when it melts your pc.

[mgsstar]

I think they should have some temperature monitor overlay in the game to prevent these things from happening. But don't see why the computer didn't shut down early enough to avoid damages.