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What to do with fried 290x

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Hey all,

After a bit of advice if you don't mind. My 290x went and did a smoke cloud recently and am after some advice about what to do with it! The card hadn't overheated and was running fine.

Booted the machine back up to have no VGA output and that lovely stench of burning electronics greet my nose!. I pulled the power immediately and stripped the card out. Where the gpu fan connects to the board pcb something has burnt out and has the typical electrical grease mark from something cooking. (You can see this by removing the shroud which I believe you're allowed to do anyway.)

I guess my main option here is to fit an aftermarket cooler, though its going to have to be one that can be powered without wanting power from the card as the gfx card will not boot with its own fan connected to the pcb. I would however, like to know if you guys would trust this gpu to be left alone to do unattended downloads etc?

Sorry for the essay and thanks for any advice.
 
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I am struggling to understand how changing the paste could lead to something burning out on that part of the board, related to fan...

Are the two really related?
 
Mike19 said:
I don't think they are related as there's no overspill of TIM anywhere and certainly no TIM in that area at all. It's XFX unfortunately and from reading Gibbos post they are ok as long as the cooler is replaced perfectly. It is, but obviously I have a decent HS compound now instead of the stuff they had on there.
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I doubt they are gonna notice a change of paste unless the new stuff is seriously different.
 
Mike19 said:
Hey all,

After a bit of advice if you don't mind. My 290x went and did a smoke cloud recently and am after some advice about what to do with it! The card hadn't overheated and was running fine after some TIM change. I ran 3dmark which was fine and shut it down to have dinner.

Booted the machine back up to have no VGA output and that lovely stench of burning electronics greet my nose!. I pulled the power immediately and stripped the card out. Where the gpu fan connects to the board pcb something has burnt out and has the typical electrical grease mark from something cooking.

I guess my main option here is to fit an aftermarket cooler, though its going to have to be one that can be powered without wanting power from the card as the gfx card will not boot with its own fan connected to the pcb. I would however, like to know if you guys would trust this gpu to be left alone to do unattended downloads etc?

Sorry for the essay and thanks for any advice.
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whyscotty said:
Can the original owner not help?
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Mike19 said:
I haven't asked yet! I'd rather not burden him with it really! I'm sure he'll see this thread at some point though!
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