CalcProgrammer1
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I have my HD5870 overclocked to 1GHz at 1.25V and it has worked pretty well the past few days, but it just did this and I didn't mess with any settings. I was running Folding@Home. The screens (3 monitor Eyefinity configuration) flashed to solid colors (gray and red) for a split second and I checked on Afterburner to see that the voltage had shot up to 1.6V and was running at 88C. I immediately killed F@H and applied my Overdrive profile (900/1300 stock voltage).
Why would it randomly dump that much power into the card without me setting it? Is there some sort of failsafe or is Afterburner an unstable piece of software? If it randomly decides to burn up your card I don't ever want to touch it again. Is there a tool with more reliable voltage control? My 5870 is a reference design by Diamond Multimedia with the Volterra regulator, assuming the stock BIOS as it has the 900/1300 limitations in Overdrive.
Why would it randomly dump that much power into the card without me setting it? Is there some sort of failsafe or is Afterburner an unstable piece of software? If it randomly decides to burn up your card I don't ever want to touch it again. Is there a tool with more reliable voltage control? My 5870 is a reference design by Diamond Multimedia with the Volterra regulator, assuming the stock BIOS as it has the 900/1300 limitations in Overdrive.