Maybe it helped with the soildering. You could put a new heatsink on it if it's artifacting instead. I'm sure it's going to burn out again because you just fried your thermal paste.
Yeah it works. You take off the fan and the heat sinc(AND PASTE). Bake the mainboard for 10 minutes around 200C. Its supposed to fix micro fractures in teh soldering. Look it up, Google it, I know theres some stuff on Youtube.
@TomA: What is your operating system? If it's XP your not maxxing anything at high settings since there is very high. Also maxed out means 8X AA for crysis, all very high and 60 frames per second, which is impossible right now unless you tri sli three gtx480. Most ppl who say maxed out doesn't understand the definition. Just making sure because crysis is one of the most demanding games out there. I know you said near max, however i'm just saying the real definition of maxed out for pc games.
@Platypus: You did reapply the termal paste right? Still I was only taking a guess about the soilders, you can't find the individual soilder problem I suppose. You are brave and adventurous, I wouldn't ever done that, I would of just bought one of those cooler heatsinks instead to deal with the heat problem. Those cards are small and vents alot of heat, I can see why it would have problems.
I've seen people do this sort of stuff before. Whether it actually works for everyone I don't know but it has helped a few people I knew before. You can find a bunch of people baking their graphics cards on YouTube actually.
Yes I re-applied thermal paste, DUH. And yeah about that heat problem, I'm tempted to just buy a case fan and attach that to my card. It still runs about 60C on lidle, and bout 90 when its stressed.
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