running my 8800GT at 100% fan speed for a couple hours.
a round, inch-diameter sticker with a large "OC" in the BFG font on it and "overlocked" printed under it got sucked into the fan.
It was stuck to the metal under the fan and the fan was clipping against it. I was alerted when the computer suddenly started giving off a ratcheting, clicking sound that slowed in frequency when i used nTune to slow down the fan.
BFG Tech support initially wanted me to uninstall nTune, which i thought was preposterous until I convinced him it had to be a hardware problem. I put the phone up to the fan to let him hear it as I booted up my computer again. I asked him if this could damage the card, he said the card was already damaged, so I asked him what the point of uninstalling ntune was. He said that nTune destroys cards all the time, and he strongly suggested I uninstall it anyway.
We discussed RMA's and how I could return it to Best Buy. I hung up, pulled it out and noticed the sticker in there, stuck crookedly behind the metal of the fan. A pair of tweezers removed the black with silver-writing silver, cardboard, with a white sticky back. Not sure where this sticker was - on the center of the fan? - but it got sucked in.
Biggest problem with that sticker resting where it helped up was a major fire hazard - a paper product with glue resting directly on a card whose core gets to 55 celcius? I'm just glad it got sucked in and rested against a surface that was in contact with the fan... had it come to rest deeper in the card, I would have never heard it, and it would have lit up by box (my house)?
a round, inch-diameter sticker with a large "OC" in the BFG font on it and "overlocked" printed under it got sucked into the fan.
It was stuck to the metal under the fan and the fan was clipping against it. I was alerted when the computer suddenly started giving off a ratcheting, clicking sound that slowed in frequency when i used nTune to slow down the fan.
BFG Tech support initially wanted me to uninstall nTune, which i thought was preposterous until I convinced him it had to be a hardware problem. I put the phone up to the fan to let him hear it as I booted up my computer again. I asked him if this could damage the card, he said the card was already damaged, so I asked him what the point of uninstalling ntune was. He said that nTune destroys cards all the time, and he strongly suggested I uninstall it anyway.
We discussed RMA's and how I could return it to Best Buy. I hung up, pulled it out and noticed the sticker in there, stuck crookedly behind the metal of the fan. A pair of tweezers removed the black with silver-writing silver, cardboard, with a white sticky back. Not sure where this sticker was - on the center of the fan? - but it got sucked in.
Biggest problem with that sticker resting where it helped up was a major fire hazard - a paper product with glue resting directly on a card whose core gets to 55 celcius? I'm just glad it got sucked in and rested against a surface that was in contact with the fan... had it come to rest deeper in the card, I would have never heard it, and it would have lit up by box (my house)?