Has Furmark damaged my graphics card?

[durzagott]

I have a passively cooled Gigabyte HD 4850 card. At one point it was overheating and shutting my pc down due to poor airflow in the case. To test that it was the graphics card, I ran Furmark for 10 mins at watched as the PC shut down when the temp reached 120 degrees C. Fair enough.

However when I ran the Furmark stress test, the card made an buzzing electrical sound which wasn't there before. I have since fixed my airflow problem and the card is fully stable. My problem is that I now get the buzzing electrical sound whenever I run 3D games. This sound wasn't there before I ran Furmark, but is now really obvious and irritating.

Has the Furmark stress test damaged my card in some way? Is there anything I can do to fix it?

[JeGX]

The sound you hear must come from your VRM module and maybe, the power required by FurMark has slightly forced the VRM. Maybe try to send back your card to Gigabyte but don't tell them you have ran FurMark.

[filip007]

If you use Gigabyte 4850 Passive just for games put 8x8cm cooler on it...and then you can overclock i had sub 50C with some overclock with max stress and i still sold out it was crashing Wheelman on my system...

I use Antec with 3 speeds just strap on with some plastic wires

http://www.antec.com/Believe_it/product.php?id=NzU=

[janu03]

I had started worrying about my graphics card because it had a PCS+ 3rd .... that the GPU VRM was damaged by excessive heat when you ran Furmark, ... The card has been discontinued its replacement has 20 lower GPU clock .

[bal3wolf]

The buzzing could also be a cap if you arent locking up or crashing when running 3d apps the card probly is fine but just annoying could try to rma it tho.