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GTX 275 degraded? unstable at stock clocks

smsmasters

smsmasters

smsmasters

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I noticed I get hard lockups (black/colour screen) within a few minutes of playing games.

I tested it in OCCT GPU Test

STOCK CLOCKS: 633/1404/1134 = within a few minutes black/colour screen freeze requiring a hard reset
DOWNCLOCKED: 633/1296/1134 = seems okay, occt gpu test continues to run, games run fine

The graphics card locks up in another computer also.

Any ideas? To me I think it degraded over time, it's about 18 months old now.
 
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Have you checked temps?

I doubt it has degraded sounds like it is overheating, download hwmonitor or gpuz and see what the load temps are, you may just need to clear out all the dust and stuff from the fan assembly.
 
smsmasters said:
Mine is an Asus GTX 275 which has 3 years warranty. I've contacted OCUK to see what they can do about this. Hoping something can be done.
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I that that would be the way to go, from what you have put here it does look like it's degraded.

I know that many GFX cards can be run up to 90 degrees or so, but I've always that this is a little to hot myself. Do you know what sort of temps that these cards run without any tweaks and normal fan speed settings?
 
MikeHunt79 said:
I that that would be the way to go, from what you have put here it does look like it's degraded.

I know that many GFX cards can be run up to 90 degrees or so, but I've always that this is a little to hot myself. Do you know what sort of temps that these cards run without any tweaks and normal fan speed settings?
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I think 105C is the max but that's way too hot.
 
Well after some more testing and checking I noticed on my HX520 the socket where the modular PCI-E connects to was protruding more than it should. I pushed it more in and so far no lock ups in OCCT GPU Test.

Any other tests I could do just to make sure???

OCUK offered me an RMA, but I'm not sure yet if I want to send this back!
 
OCCT should find any problems really, but I would just set everything back to stock including the fan speed and try some games and maybe a few benchmarks?
 
MikeHunt79 said:
I that that would be the way to go, from what you have put here it does look like it's degraded.

I know that many GFX cards can be run up to 90 degrees or so, but I've always that this is a little to hot myself. Do you know what sort of temps that these cards run without any tweaks and normal fan speed settings?
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I have two 275 gtx's, ran at stock, (640 mhz core clock), on auto fan speed they hit about 75c ono when gaming.

smsmasters said:
Well after some more testing and checking I noticed on my HX520 the socket where the modular PCI-E connects to was protruding more than it should. I pushed it more in and so far no lock ups in OCCT GPU Test.

Any other tests I could do just to make sure???

OCUK offered me an RMA, but I'm not sure yet if I want to send this back!
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Run furmark and test with various games, hopefully itll turn out that it was just the power connector being loose.:)
 
Give left 4 dead a whirl if you have it - if you can play an hour of that your golden - its notorious for exploiting any issues with the 200 series :D
 
smsmasters said:
Well after some more testing and checking I noticed on my HX520 the socket where the modular PCI-E connects to was protruding more than it should. I pushed it more in and so far no lock ups in OCCT GPU Test.

Any other tests I could do just to make sure???

OCUK offered me an RMA, but I'm not sure yet if I want to send this back!
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if OCUK test the card and they find it OK then you will just get it back with charges so best to be absolutely sure the card is at fault here.

Sounds like you may have already found the cause though but just play the games you already have when it failed for a few days to make sure.
 
There a call in the nVidia control panel API to check the power connections I'm suprised it didn't flag anything... tho I've never actually seen any message when cards haven't had the extra power connections at all (but can still boot) either.
 
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