Video card burnout

[Mon0L1th]

I recently bought a sapphire radeon x1300 for the new comp i was building. Everything was fine for about 20 minutes until i started seeing pixels not showing up properly (mostly in grid like lines, seemingly random on the screen). I know its not the monitor. Upon further inspection i noticed this card runs really frikkin hot...and all i was doing was loading windows. I then tried this card in my other comp, and the same thing was happening. (After that the PCI-E slot on the other comp doesnt seem to be functioning.)

So my questions are:
Is there any way to return this card to normal? Whatever damage that it took is minimal, there is nothing visibly wrong with it.
Has anyone heard of PCI-E slots acting this way? Is there something i can do so i dont have to buy a new mobo?

 

[dcloud]

Hi Mon0L1th,

That card has a passive heatsink on it, so there is no fan on the card to help with cooling. You should probably check out some fan/cooling options.

- dc

 

[Mon0L1th]

well it will be watercooled once it runs stable. But even stock it should last more than 20 minutes doing nothing. My current watercooled GPU gets to the 60deg C mark when its busting its butt, overclocked from 400 to 450mhz.

 

[franklin97355]

I'd not try fixing it but take it back.

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