Okay so I had my machine on overnight crunching through processing RAW video for my school project...and woke up in the night to a loud fan grinding. (my old but faithful) Radeon 9700 Pro fan was churning away making alot of noise...anyway i shut it off and when I got home I took my card out and placed on it a Iceberg VGA cooler i had lying around.
Putting it back in the case...all happy until my finger slips and *snap* off comes a little silver cap.
OH NOES goes through my head and I immediately panic...I have no replacement if it doesnt work and I'm a student so cant afford a new card (I want a x1550
Anyway I put it in and power up and the system seems to be stable and all...but i want to know is it safe to run it like this??
The details from what I can read on the cap are:
47
j PK
2BN
Is it even needed?
My card still benchmarks just fine
any details would be helpful,
Kurtis
P.S I have noticed in some games a slight performance decrease...*gulp*
Would anyone reccommend replacing with a 7300GT? (DDR3 edition)