Johhny Doe

Yup, those 4 hour sleeps would affect your routine horribly. Because most of the GH is produced in sleep you know, the less you sleep, the lesser your body would find time to build up muscle. Much less you're nearly at your 40, so better get sleep well before you encounter the effects of sleep deprivation. 8-10 hours to say at least.

 
I hope I can one day get good sleep again, I have some other complications such as sleep apnea and thats not helping either, when it rains it pores!

Johhny Doe

You're taking pressured air from the ear, nose and throat system for treatment, right? Aw, I hope you get well.
 

 
Not yet but I might have too because I usually stop breathing quite frequently throughout the night, it can be quite scary. Im gonna get those sinks you recommended but I will paint them black as it will match the color of the GPU's cooler.

Squall_Rinoa86

Originally Posted by bleda76
Just want to share my dead 570 experience. I bought the Gigabyte GTX 570 OC Windforce 3x (GV-N570OC-13I) last friday. It comes factory overclocked @ 780 core/1560 shader/1900 memory. Default voltage is 1.00V. With these settings it worked fine under Furmak, Kombuster, Unigine and Far Cray 2 ( i never disabled OCP).

Then overclocked it to 850/1700/2250 keeping the voltage at default 1.00V and in less than 3 minutes during furmark run my card died (temps were 65-67 degrees. I didnt check the PCB since I will RMA it today. But im sure its a burnt VRM.

From the looks of it I am the only one whose card died at factory default voltage of 1.00 (with OCP on) despite having the Windforce 3x custom cooler. So I did quite alot of research and found out that (between custom 570s);

- Gigabyte 570 OC Windorce 3x and MSI 570 TwinFrozr II both use the reference PCB design with 6 phase VRM (4 for GPU and 2 for memory). They simply put a custom cooler on top. MSI cards have similar incidents reported
http://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/sh....php?t=3072063

- Gainward 570 Phantom, Gainward 570 GS Goes Like Hell, Palit 570 Sonic Platinum all have 8 phase VRMs (6 GPU and 2 memory). Same amount with the GTX 580. All these cards have identical PCB since they belong to the same graphics card manufacturer group
http://images.bit-tech.net/content_i...phantom-1b.jpg

- Asus GTX570 DirectCU II also has 8 phase VRMs (6 GPU and 2 memory)
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/A...ages/front.jpg

And so far I havent seen similar incidents with any of these cards on the net. Which really brings me to the conclusion that this problem is only for the reference design 570 PCB with insufficient VRM phases. Based on the custom cooling abilites of my card, I am positive that temps have got nothing to do with this problem.

FYI, the GTX 590 has 10 GPU VRMs (5 per GPU) and already someone has blown one. Clearly 6 phase looks like the best solution since GTX 580 seems to working fine for everyone.

If I can get the RMA replacement, I will try to get a Gainward 570 Phantom instead and I will keep you posted on how it goes.


 taken from that link

"problem is only for the reference design 570 PCB with insufficient VRM phases" i think not!
vrm's are fine some 570's just cant be overclocked so high.And he also went to 350 mhz more on memory and 80 mhz on core and the card was already overclocked from the factory.And the last time i checked this was evga why the hell are we talking about asus and gainward?