One to many steps to hop through for me. Tell us about your favorite Sapphire card... man that's been a while... a ATI 9600 I think it was... but send an email... after doing all the gleam generate engagement bullshit... and then to be one of 10 thousand to MAYBE win a prize... IF you're...
Do you plan on over clocking? You're likely going to be fine just get the bios updated and dont do more than memory profile over clocking and you will be solid.
I mean fair. It's not about the data on the screen... it's about the cycles being burned to do the work. Bad code or bad hardware you be the judge but you should not be cooking your video cards even with a simple image could even be static being drawn in an specific way at out of control...
Uncapped frame rates are a bane when bad drivers or driver calls let parts run in a race condition ahead of other parts in the channel.
Days or thunder reference.. you hit 10000fps.. you basically money shifted your video card.