Did I just fry my VRM?

[zeukin]

I have a r9 290 reference card and I slapped a kraken g10 with an h55 corsair liquid cooler on it and thought Id go nuts with it. I reached a steady clock speed of 1150mhz with 92c vrm temp and a low gpu temp of 58c running it on unigine valley and memory clock of 1470mhz. Test came out stable so I gave furnark a try. Gpu temps didnt exceed 63c but vrm temp was 128c by the end of a 15 minute run on furmark. No artifacts or crashes but boy that shit was a lagfest. My card seems alright but did it sustain damages reaching vrm temps that high?

 

[reedo_43]

Not if it is working. Consider yourself lucky!

 

[chris987]

the vrm shouldnt operate above 100c. although it is designed to withstand even higher. time will tell if got damaged or not.! go easy on oc. you want your gpu to last dont you?

 

[Sakkura]

You might want to pick up some VRM heatsinks though.

 

[zeukin]

the vrm shouldnt operate above 100c. although it is designed to withstand even higher. time will tell if got damaged or not.! go easy on oc. you want your gpu to last dont you?

Well yea. Sad thing I wasn't able to monitor vrm temps before reaching 128c in time. I'm ok with decreased lifespan if that means it will last a year or two. I'll have it upgraded by then.

 

[chris987]

the vrm shouldnt operate above 100c. although it is designed to withstand even higher. time will tell if got damaged or not.! go easy on oc. you want your gpu to last dont you?

Well yea. Sad thing I wasn't able to monitor vrm temps before reaching 128c in time. I'm ok with decreased lifespan if that means it will last a year or two. I'll have it upgraded by then.

as long as you keeping it below 100c you should be ok. As @Sakkura suggests, vrm heatsinks is something you should really consider if you are to continue with such high o/c!