470 dead?

[Psy-Blade]

Hey all,

I've been having some problems with my machine recently. It locks up every week or so with some minor artefacting (sp?).

I've ran MemTest and that's fine, is there any other test to run?

I've also noticed it seems to be running a little warmer than usual (plenty of cooling, Antec 1200 with all fans on full and filters are clean)...

 

[Rroff]

Its fine for ~80C normal operation when gaming but if its idle at 80C something is very wrong.

Give it 10 minutes or so on FurMark or test with OCCT.

 

[Psy-Blade]

Damn, touched 95c before the gpu fan kicked up to 5000rpm, settled at 92c (using occt)... RMA time?

 

[Marine-RX179]

Damn, touched 95c before the gpu fan kicked up to 5000rpm, settled at 92c (using occt)... RMA time?

Have you try something like using MSI Afterburner to set your own custom fan profile, so that the fan would speed up at a earlier stage than until over 90C of the default fan profile?

 

[Psy-Blade]

Have you try something like using MSI Afterburner to set your own custom fan profile, so that the fan would speed up at a earlier stage than until over 90C of the default fan profile?

Thanks I'll try this. I'm tempted to run OCCT as a stability test for an hour... but is it safe at close to 90c?

 

[Rroff]

OCCT/FurMark will get it upto ~90C. I wouldn't run it long under those tests tho personally I consider it an artifical load that works the card outside its design specs, but it should show any problems with the card up very quickly usually under 10minutes, 20 max.

If its a VRAM error tho it might be harder to pin down.