Anyone else here ever volt modded a graphics card? Well I decided to dabble in it just for fun. I bought myself a geforce 7900gt about 6 months ago and had been messing with the volt modding since the beginning. I used a silver-something another pen that let's you draw circuits to attach components. Well first I bumped it up to 1.4V, (from the default 1.2V) and it worked fine, then to 1.5V, and it worked fine. Well after a while of 1.5V I started getting occasional glitches in my games; pixels would occasionally shoot out like a laser beam and such. So I put it back down to 1.4V. Then I concluded the problem was my processor, so I downclocked it from the BIOS and clocked my geforce up to 1.55V. Well, I think it was the constant voltage changes that did it in. After I realized the graphics glitches were becoming more numerous I wiped off all traces of the silver pen, but my card was still stuck at 1.4V instead of going down to the original 1.2V. And the graphics glitches got worse. I used ATITools to test for artifacts and immediately when loaded the whole artifact screen goes yellow (yes, that's really bad). Well now my games are unplayable and I'm in the market for a new card.

Moral of story: Don't screw around with things you don't know much about and you just saw on the internet and thought it was cool.

On a side note: The one positive thing out of this was now I can buy the much better Geforce 8800gt to replace it and my wife won't get pissed about it since my other card died.

Is it me or does a partnership often sound like being whipped?