[QUOTE=airsquirrels;426577]This is turning into a bad trend. I just had a second Titan, this time on water, melt down under similar circumstances. These cards were rock solid doing TF work for months but it appears LL work is causing the MOSFET/Coils dedicated to powering the RAM to overheat... Unfortunately this card is in the middle of a block of 4 on water so I had to resort to disabling that PCIe slot in bios and unplugging the power cables.[/QUOTE]
Oh sh!t, I didn't see the second page. If this is an original card (i.e. a hydro-copper or something, and not one for which you changed the air block by yourself to a water block) then you may check if there is any chance for an RMA - the original hydro-copper cards had 3 years warranty, and some [URL="http://www.evga.com/Products/Specs/GPU.aspx?pn=CC8A54F8-57E4-4967-ABDC-B57D83CBBFF8"]signature cards[/URL] even had 5 years.

[QUOTE=chalsall;426573]The unhappy me part? The price for the Operating System (Winblows) is about 2/3rds the price of the hardware!

Oh well... Perhaps in a few years AutoCAD will be available for Linux....[/QUOTE]
There are many [URL="http://alternativeto.net/software/autocad/"]alternatives to acad[/URL] for linux.

And if you talk about "few years", there are web-based alternatives which are "almost" as good as actual cad software, for example [URL="https://www.onshape.com/product-tour"]this one[/URL] is extremely fast and extremely efficient, and only the missing of some encryption makes it not so popular (I won't like "posting" my files online, for new designs, you never know who collects them). Of course, compared with acad or solid works, this is now a baby, but imagine it in "few years". That is the trend. Things in the cloud, the cad tool online, etc, you can access them from anywhere and with any platform, including the smartphone, all team can work on it in the same time, etc, no matter where they are around the world.

For me, my involvement with cad software was one of the reasons I never became a "linux guy", I always remained a "casual"/"basic level" user, in spite of the fact that my basic daily activity is writing firmware, and not cad design.

[QUOTE=LaurV;426611]There are many [URL="http://alternativeto.net/software/autocad/"]alternatives to acad[/URL] for linux.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, I'm aware. I use Open Source CAD alternatives myself.

But Linda and her partner are architects. Read: artists, not geeks. It took me years to instil upon them the appropriate level of paranoia such that they didn't click on every link presented to them in emails, nor open attachments from people they didn't trust...

It is simply not worth the time to train them (and their staff) as to how to work around the differences (and incompatibility) of what they (and all their associates and contractors) are used to and comfortable with.

Thus, they pay the "Micro$oft tax"....

It seems older EVGA cards also have the same problem: [url]http://youtube.com/watch?v=PTO44xV1jKE[/url]

Hopefully the upcoming Pascal cards won't be affected.

[QUOTE=ixfd64;426656]It seems older EVGA cards also have the same problem: [url]http://youtube.com/watch?v=PTO44xV1jKE[/url]

Hopefully the upcoming Pascal cards won't be affected.[/QUOTE]Yup, I've got honest-to-$Deity flu. High fever, the works.

[QUOTE=xilman;427188]Yup, I've got honest-to-$Deity flu. High fever, the works.[/QUOTE]
My sympathies. Keep your fluids and electrolytes up.

Today an awful day here in UK. Got caught in a middle of a flood, had to be towed but I think I damaged the engine. This car was bought two weeks ago to cover the move from my office to a new place. I'm upset with my performance, I could have voided but sometimes on this type of situation we don't think straight. Tomorrow my car will be picked up by the assistance to the car garage to be checked. I suppose water got into the engine, exhaust system, etc.

This car costed £2000+ insurance. I suspect I'll need to buy another car. With this I'm delaying my computer purchase but mostly the postpone on having a child. This hurts a lot.

BTW, today makes one month of my grandfather death.


Carlos

[QUOTE=pinhodecarlos;428517]I suppose water got into the engine, exhaust system, etc.[/QUOTE]

Very sorry to hear that. And, yes, water getting into the cylinders is a very bad thing.

Water is not actually incompressible (just try dropping a bit into a black hole to demonstrate this), but for the most part it is inadvisable to introduce it to a combustion system.

[QUOTE=pinhodecarlos;428517]BTW, today makes one month of my grandfather death.[/QUOTE]

Losing important people can be painful.

[QUOTE=chalsall;428520]VWater is not actually incompressible (just try dropping a bit into a black hole to demonstrate this) ...[/QUOTE]We don't really know what happens after something crosses the event horizon. We would presume that for a large enough BH it would remain water during the crossing. And later when it gets near or hits the central "thing" (whatever it actually is) it is likely to mutate into something else. It would be a stretch to keep calling it water at that point. Even a neutron star would be enough to compress "water", but turning water into all neutrons is not really compressing water IMO. You started with water, you mutated it into neutrons, you now no longer have any water.

[QUOTE=retina;428548]We don't really know what happens after something crosses the event horizon.[/QUOTE]

Would it, or would it not, be compressed? :smile:

The point I was /trying/ to make is we're always told that fluids can't be compressed. This is simply not true.

It's a lie (read: simplification) we tell children when trying to teach science.

[QUOTE=chalsall;428553]Would it, or would it not, be compressed?[/QUOTE]If you show me a bunch of neutrons and try to claim it is compressed water I will laugh at you. :razz:

[QUOTE=retina;428554]If you show me a bunch of neutrons and try to claim it is compressed water I will laugh at you. :razz:[/QUOTE]

I am comfortable being laughed at. :smile: