So I finally got home, powered up my PC, played TF2 for like a hour, then I left the room and quickly ran back when I started to smell burning plastic. Well by the looks of it, something fucking exploded in my GPU, the metal cooling system is BENT (pics are coming, currently installing drivers for my old gtx260).
It's gigabyte HD6970 (gv-r6970c2-2gd). Maybe I can RMA it?
That's a first.
What do you mean
Never heard of a GPU actually EXPLODING before.
Look for yourself:
[url]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17610513/P1000832.JPG[/url]
[url]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17610513/P1000833.JPG[/url]
[url]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17610513/P1000831.JPG[/url]
See, the cooling was parallel with the plate before (maybe it fell off somehow? And what's with that fat fan wire, it somehow got between the plate and the cooling system)
And here are the burns
[url]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17610513/P1000830.JPG[/url]
[url]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17610513/P1000834.JPG[/url]
(pics are huge, straight from my camera)
Not to be all Nvidia fanboy etc, but I always had my doubts about AMD/ATI cards. I've never seen this happen with an Nvidia card.
Either way, you should definitely contact their support.
I'm not seeing any burned up components. I might be seeing some wrinkling of the PCB from where a bus trace got exceptionally hot but I don't see anything wrong. Also, it looks more like the metal frame for the fan was bent by improper installation in ths system. Was it aligned in the card guides?
[QUOTE=MIPS;32524872] Also, it looks more like the metal frame for the fan was bent by improper installation in ths system. Was it aligned in the card guides?[/QUOTE]
Obviously I looked at the card before installing it two months ago, it wasn't bent (and I didn't bend it lol).
I googled just to be sure, and it is supposed to be aligned.
[editline]28th September 2011[/editline]
For some reason I think I won't be able to get my money back by asking for it in the store, because it clearly looks like I tried to rip the cooling system off, or something, to me. Russian hardware stores have a lot of warrancy issues.
That PCB doesnt look healthy in the corner over there thats for sure.
[QUOTE=taipan;32526502]That PCB doesnt look healthy in the corner over there thats for sure.[/QUOTE]
Those are the usual burn marks, I am more interested in the cooling system
[QUOTE=Ridz0r;32524857]Not to be all Nvidia fanboy etc, but I always had my doubts about AMD/ATI cards. I've never seen this happen with an Nvidia card.
Either way, you should definitely contact their support.[/QUOTE]
Yeah because the power distribution system is totally made by AMD, and it's their fault it failed.
[QUOTE=MIPS;32524872]I'm not seeing any burned up components. I might be seeing some wrinkling of the PCB from where a bus trace got exceptionally hot but I don't see anything wrong. Also, it looks more like the metal frame for the fan was bent by improper installation in ths system. Was it aligned in the card guides?[/QUOTE]
You can see on the back side of the board where the solder joints were heated so much that the rosin agent diffused from the solder itself and started boiling, that's not normal. You can also see the ferrite coil (L1721) burned.
The pictures are incredibly dark, but it looks like the voltage regulation system was extremely overloaded and failed accordingly. If you didn't abuse the card by overclocking it to death, then I'd RMA it.
[QUOTE=bohb;32530826]
The pictures are incredibly dark, but it looks like the voltage regulation system was extremely overloaded and failed accordingly. If you didn't abuse the card by overclocking it to death, then I'd RMA it.[/QUOTE]
I didn't OC it, but AFAIK the card was OC'd by gigabyte. And sorry for the pics, I used camera's auto mode.
So I was right, they told me that they cannot just replace it or give me money back, they need to test it (to ensure warranty is covering it) so I gave it to them, but it will take long. Eh.
What's the rest of your specs, incl power supply?
asus p8p67
i5 2500k
4gb of ddr3 ram
OCZ chillxstream 600w (powers my gtx260 fine by now)
Well then buy a new one. It would also be a good idea not to buy the same type/try a different manufacturer
That's easy to say, I wasted $400 on it
I'll wait for the results, there's still hope anyway.
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