Rincewind79
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- Jan 27, 2005
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The case is simple: a custom heatsink can damage the card in two ways; damaging the core or overheating. Same for CPU´s. If you damage the core, you get no replacement (happend often to early athlon/duron CPU´s); if the core is visibly intact, you have warranty. The shops in my town let you take a look at the core and you have to sign that the core is visible intact. Intel´s and AMD´s warranty clearly covers this. It´s not so clear for video cards, but if you change the cooler, monitor the temps (geforcetony changed the cooler because of high temps) and the card dies, it doesnt have to be the new cooling device. Might be, thats the question.
Now one thing thing you should check geforcetony:
I had heavy artifacts with my RADEON 9800NP, even after restart and in the BIOS. Turned out the Zalman ZM80HP was installed improperly! Changing to standard cooling solved the problem. Second installation with Zalman (maybe the fifth in total) went fine, no problems till now.
Now one thing thing you should check geforcetony:
I had heavy artifacts with my RADEON 9800NP, even after restart and in the BIOS. Turned out the Zalman ZM80HP was installed improperly! Changing to standard cooling solved the problem. Second installation with Zalman (maybe the fifth in total) went fine, no problems till now.