Powercolor 4870x2 Bit the Dust?

[Benny]

Hi All,

Just looking for confirmation on this. I guess the beast is finally dead after 3 years of use but just to confirm.

I'm getting Green squares permeating the screen then on the odd ocassion it reboots with 2 x Thick green vertical bars. The proceeds with the BSOD as detailed in the images. It seems to be getting progressivly worse too.

Is it possible it isn't the card but the actual PCI Slot? It is running on an Asus P5B Deluxe.

Green Squares
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/684/greensquares.jpg/

BSOD
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/829/bluescreen.jpg/


Cheers

Benny

 

[w3bbo]

Doubtfull its the pcie slot.

It certainly does not look well. Have you tried changing the GPU paste as you may be lucky and its just overheating. Otherwise I would says its dead.

 

[Benny]

In that case I would imagine it is dead or literally on deaths door and filling out it's will. I changed the paste about a month ago. There was a wall of dust inside the H/S. Cleaned it out and applied new Arctic Silver paste.

Is it possible the RAM is overheating? The Thermal pads looked a little worse for wear. The actual GPU's appear to be under load. Around 45-60 dependent upon duration of gaming session.

Thanks for your reply mate.

I guess that system upgrade has been forced upon me earlier than expected.

B

 

[Ovr]

That is knackered!

 

[mattjd]

The vRAM has gone unfortunately

Time to retire the old card and get yourself a GTX570 or 6950

 

[Emphacy]

Put it in the oven?
I'm not sure if it works with newer cards, but you never know.

 

[psychas]

Put it in the oven?
I'm not sure if it works with newer cards, but you never know.

If warranty is over might as well try it , but if its vrm as another person said im not sure if over trick would work as it is mainly for capacitors could be wrong

 

[Benny]

Well I'm due an upgrade anyways. Just been putting it off as long as possible. Looks like this has been the deciding factor.

Been thinking about trying out Nvidia as been on ATI for a while now. Started out on Nvidia cards years ago so might coast back to them.

Is there a new generation of cards about to be released? IS it worth holding on for a while longer or just bite the bullet?

Thanks for the feedback all.


Slightly saddened, but looking forward to a new piece of hardware all the same.

Cheers

B

 

[arc@css]

Looks like the next range of nVidia cards will be out after the next AMD series - which is around late this year iirc, so if you want to wait for them you're facing an even longer wait.