nVidia GTX570s dying from Overclocking??

[Skurge]

2) You overclock without precaution. You read the part when some can OC a few hundred mhz without issue, so you tried, and ended up with a dead card. You could have read what others have post about their dead card, but you can, for some reason, find them after the fact. Did you take your chances?

This is interesting. The OP of the thread with the dead 570 said he overclocked his MSI 570 to the same speed as his other 570. I don't know if he jumped straight to 850mhz or he used the usual incremental 5mhz and teste method.

 

[Aristotelian]

I am more interested in how anybody can consider it a flaw when a product is run outside its stated specs?

That's an interesting question, considering we just had a thread in here where someone expected to RMA a videocard for running it outside its stated specs (including voltage tweaking).

The issue here, as I see it, is people go on the internet and read posts, or hear from their friends statements like: "great, gtx570! overclock to 580 speeds best bang for the buck omglol! Anyone who buys a 580 is wasting his money LOL!" and then when they buy a card and the overclocking comes nowhere near what someone on a forum somewhere achieved, think they have a faulty product. Worse, they try to RMA the product. This entitlement phenomenon is largely predicated on the misinformation that is posted with respect to overclocking.

By entitlement I am referring to the phenomenon in enthusiast communities that exists as if every part should overclock in the first place, and further that all of them should overclock equally. It's one thing to hope that your card/chip/whatever achieves what someone else's does, but thinking you have a faulty product just because it doesn't overclock well is asinine.

 

[Skurge]

That's an interesting question, considering we just had a thread in here where someone expected to RMA a videocard for running it outside its stated specs (including voltage tweaking).

The issue here, as I see it, is people go on the internet and read posts, or hear from their friends statements like: "great, gtx570! overclock to 580 speeds best bang for the buck omglol! Anyone who buys a 580 is wasting his money LOL!" and then when they buy a card and the overclocking comes nowhere near what someone on a forum somewhere achieved, think they have a faulty product. Worse, they try to RMA the product. This entitlement phenomenon is largely predicated on the misinformation that is posted with respect to overclocking.

By entitlement I am referring to the phenomenon in enthusiast communities that exists as if every part should overclock in the first place, and further that all of them should overclock equally. It's one thing to hope that your card/chip/whatever achieves what someone else's does, but thinking you have a faulty product just because it doesn't overclock well is asinine.

I think we know a few people like that *cough*cough*, I want bothered when my 5770 wouldnt overclock one bit, even after everyone I know could overclock theirs.

 

[Idontcare]

That's an interesting question, considering we just had a thread in here where someone expected to RMA a videocard for running it outside its stated specs (including voltage tweaking).

The issue here, as I see it, is people go on the internet and read posts, or hear from their friends statements like: "great, gtx570! overclock to 580 speeds best bang for the buck omglol! Anyone who buys a 580 is wasting his money LOL!" and then when they buy a card and the overclocking comes nowhere near what someone on a forum somewhere achieved, think they have a faulty product. Worse, they try to RMA the product. This entitlement phenomenon is largely predicated on the misinformation that is posted with respect to overclocking.

By entitlement I am referring to the phenomenon in enthusiast communities that exists as if every part should overclock in the first place, and further that all of them should overclock equally. It's one thing to hope that your card/chip/whatever achieves what someone else's does, but thinking you have a faulty product just because it doesn't overclock well is asinine.

+1, so very true.

 

[Annisman*]

This guy had his card at -50C, cranked the voltage (highest that software would allow) and his VRM's literally fried: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=266026

I don't think anybody was saying temps were the issue, but I think we can totally eliminate that now!

Trying to add to the thread btw, I don't want to fight with you!

 

[MrK6]

This guy had his card at -50C, cranked the voltage (highest that software would allow) and his VRM's literally fried: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=266026

I don't think anybody was saying temps were the issue, but I think we can totally eliminate that now!

Trying to add to the thread btw, I don't want to fight with you!

I agree, and as we've been saying, it's just in the design. The power circuitry is designed to handle the stock chip and not much more. This is useful information for us enthusiasts who like to overclock, especially in a "sky's the limit" fashion - this is not the card to do this on. If this has any other ramifications, who knows, maybe someone with more engineering experience can chime in.