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Article #716004Re: Stacraft 2. What do you think?
From: Jim
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 12:06
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 12:06
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"Lance Corporal Hammer Schultz" <starfist@gmail.invalid> wrote in message news:13v41qk1kdf5t$.dlg@starfist.thorsfinni... > This is most definitely *not* the fault of Blizzard. If a card can > run so hot as to destroy itself, that is either due to bad card > design/poor cooling, or overclocking. The VRMs of the ATI 4000 series couldn't handle Furmark so the drivers throttled that app. http://www.anandtech.com/show/2841/11 I haven't heard what cards were affected by SC2 but it looks like AMDs penny pinching has come to bite them in the ass.
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