Linus needs to read this !!

[Petar_99]

I just had an amazing idea for a video, what if you could remove the temp limit of a video card and run if maxed out without cooling to see if it could set on fire. That would be the coolest video ever. Maybe like an older card would be able to do this. Please can we try get this idea through to Linus. 

[Archetype117]

Id seriously love to see this. You could try different cards and see what it took to set each on fire then compare them at the end.

[Syntaxvgm]

that...doesn't work like that.....at least modern chips. 

[Coaxialgamer]

3 minutes ago, Petar_99 said:

I just had an amazing idea for a video, what if you could remove the temp limit of a video card and run if maxed out without cooling to see if it could set on fire. That would be the coolest video ever. Maybe like an older card would be able to do this. Please can we try get this idea through to Linus. 

Coolest ? 

[Ashiella]

Well, @LinusTech or @nicklmg might respond, try with a Gtx 480 or something amd.

[ThinkWithPortals]

Nice clickbait. I'm pretty sure removing the GPU temperature threshold is impossible, unless you did some major custom BIOS flashing trickery, and even that probably wouldn't work.

Anyway, I think that's a terrible idea for a video. It's not a review, not a guide, not informative, not helpful in any way, not even particularly entertaining. Just destructive.

[Ashiella]

Just now, ThinkWithPortals said:

Nice clickbait. I'm pretty sure removing the GPU temperature threshold is impossible, unless you did some major custom BIOS flashing trickery, and even that probably wouldn't work.

Anyway, I think that's a terrible idea for a video. It's not a review, not a guide, not informative, not helpful in any way, not even particularly entertaining. Just destructive.

Channelsuperfun 

[ThinkWithPortals]

Just now, Ashiella said:

Channelsuperfun 

But ChannelSuperFun isn't even about technology, a video about burning a GPU would be completely out of place.

Also, ChannelSuperFun videos are supposed to be funny videos featuring a large amount of Linus Media Group team who aren't on camera much. This is neither of those things.

 

Of course, this is all assuming that unlocking a GPU's temperature limit is possible, which I'm pretty sure it's not.

[Ashiella]

Just now, ThinkWithPortals said:

But ChannelSuperFun isn't even about technology, a video about burning a GPU would be completely out of place.

Also, ChannelSuperFun videos are supposed to be funny videos featuring a large amount of Linus Media Group team who aren't on camera much. This is neither of those things.

 

Of course, this is all assuming that unlocking a GPU's temperature limit is possible, which I'm pretty sure it's not.

Just custom bios flash it, if that wouldn't work, then no, unless they custom made a card for them. But I know, but it seems superfun.

[Petar_99]

What if you removed the fan and stuffed the card with a flammable material or liquid.  

[LogicalDrm]

You wouldn't be seeing actual flames. There might be burn marks, but nothing more dramatic. Modern and even bit older hardware is made to be resistant.

9 minutes ago, Petar_99 said:

What if you removed the fan and stuffed the card with a flammable material or liquid.  

Why would that be any fun? You could be using torch if you just want to see things burning.

 

TTL did some extended fan testing some years ago. Like overvolting them to 15V and watching how engines went pop. That was interesting. Like was the time when Adam Savage put CD into microwave.

[QueenDemetria]

Spoiler

Watching graphics cards "blow up" really isn't that exciting, the risk of taking out the power supply or motherboard with it makes it not worth it too. 

 

[Nowak]

I'm pretty sure they won't do this, because:

A. It's a fire hazard, and:
B. It's not actually that exciting to watch.

 

LMG received a lot of criticism over the "Heating up a pizza with your graphics card" video. I don't think they'll want to produce more content like that in the future.

[Adam1984]

Id love to see the opposite of this, some sort of sub zero cooling on the gpu chip with benchmarks

[Tieox]

I want to see someone overheat a CPU while sat at the South Pole.

[Adam1984]

Just now, Kierax said:

I want to see someone overheat a CPU while sat at the South Pole.

Lol what the fudge

[dvdrack]

This needs to happen

[natey_g]

This video would honestly go viral

[Space Reptile]

3 hours ago, Syntaxvgm said:

that...doesn't work like that.....at least modern chips. 

as soon as they hit 100c on the chip theyll just shutoff 

[Orthodox_Rainbow]

It would be interesting to see if it's possible. I'm sure Linus and friends could remove all safety protocols and burn it up. I guess at the very most we would just get some smoke.

[Tech_Dreamer]

most probably it wouldn't happen as i presume the gpu will throttle down depending on the temps &  most probably will try to stabilize itself & wont be going too far of to reach  pcb burning temps in a modern gpu, might happen with a really older gpu with an outdated driver , unless they pull some drama shit to pull in viewers by rigging the GPU to do something flashy

[NavyCuda]

If you get a perfect shot longways on a windows phone, from side to side, parallel to the screen with a 20" barrelled AR-15, the phone will explode into a number of small fragments.

[TheRandomness]

50 minutes ago, Space Reptile said:

as soon as they hit 100c on the chip theyll just shutoff 

Unless you mod the BIOS to not have a temp limit c; (It's possible with any BIOS editior afaik)

[Space Reptile]

1 minute ago, TheRandomness said:

Unless you mod the BIOS to not have a temp limit c; (It's possible with any BIOS editior afaik)

nope , its on the gpu itself , or are you talking gpu bios? im shure they have a hadware shutoff tho , non software/bios

[NavyCuda]

Just now, TheRandomness said:

Unless you mod the BIOS to not have a temp limit c; (It's possible with any BIOS editior afaik)

 

So if you do manage to make a custom bios for it, how will you address the melting point of the solder?  Convincing a board to stay functioning long enough to reach the flash of any of the components is mostly a pipe dream.