
but i still wanted a replacement given how it was crashing (and lets face it, it was only about a month old so that really shouldnt have been happening under normal load) the new card maxed out at 70c under the same tests, the fans still "stuck" at 35% im thinking its a poorly designed fan curve in the video bios. I came to that conclusion as well, no matter how hard i pushed it that fan just would not go over 35% using evga precision and manually adjusting the fan the fan sped up and temps dropped significantly. Especially Einstein is not very stressful for the GPU, so I'd try if the temperatures there are safe anyway (<70Â☌). Besides: Furmark is not a proper test any more, since it generates far more heat than any real application.

Could be the cards bios or the graphics driver. 97Â☌ with the fan "stuck" at 35% sounds like the fan is just not spinning up as it should.
