Take what you'd spend on a board and put it toward a new system. The nVidia chip in the boards so equipped is one of those known to be of faulty design - considering you'd get at best a 90-day warranty for your few hundred dollars, it's a very, very big risk to take.
The basics of the faulty chips are summarized here:
dillonmhudson
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June 26th, 2010 14:00
Wow ok. I had no idea.
Ok, thanks for the info.
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Take what you'd spend on a board and put it toward a new system. The nVidia chip in the boards so equipped is one of those known to be of faulty design - considering you'd get at best a 90-day warranty for your few hundred dollars, it's a very, very big risk to take.
The basics of the faulty chips are summarized here:
http://apcmag.com/nvidia_disaster_thousands_of_gpus_faulty.htm