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Fried 780?

have you removed the card and visually inspected it?? the cooler can be removed by just the 4 screws surrounding the gpu die.
A snap noise could possibly be one of the caps.
 
Is this on air? Depends on the fan speed I'm sure you could pop a VRM on one on air if it was hot enough in the room. Or more likely and or both, it was faulty to begin with. RMA.


Although you'd smell it. Definitely try reflashing first and inspect the card
 
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I did clear the CMOS and the issue still remained.

Yes the card is on air but it popped at idle on desktop idling at 27c.

Everything is plugged into a surge protector.

I have not visually inspected it so I can give it a look I guess.

Also the card was only 1 day old when it popped. So I still can RMA with the place I bought it.
 
Nickolp1974 said:
have you removed the card and visually inspected it?? the cooler can be removed by just the 4 screws surrounding the gpu die.
A snap noise could possibly be one of the caps.
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Which 4 screws? There are 4 big ones and 4 little ones around the GPU.

Also I would need to apply new thermal paste right? If so would Arctic Silver 5 be ok?

Or should I even bother since its 1 day old and just get it replaced?
 
Send it off for RMA and don't take it apart in any way because you will leave screwdriver marks on the screws and they may say you opened it up and caused the damage. Send it off mate and get them to deal with it, it sounds like weak components on the GPU board and some component that deals with power went pop.

Just be very careful with the replacement and maybe stay away from some of these tools you used. All you need to do is slightly over-volt some of these GPUS and use something like Furmark and they go pop. Save yourself the headache you replaced it with a working GPU now and at least you can use the computer while it is sent for RMA.
 
Only thing I used was the Classy tool and Skyn3t bios. Surely a voltage of 1.25v would not hurt a Classy unless it was already faulty right?

I mean you pay the premium to get some more out of the card after all. ;)
 
thefogo said:
Yeah I used over 1.3v on mine on air and had no problems. Very strange that it died at 1.25v at the desktop.
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Yup, as soon as I hit the Apply button in the classy tool for 1.25v it popped and shut down.

Shocked the hell out of me.
 
Just an update. Got my replacement 780 today, and its garbage!

The one that popped did 1300mhz game stable all day. This one can't even last 1 min in Unigine Heaven at 1215mhz!

I mean this is my 3rd 780 Classy in a little over a month and every one ended up being bad. Really wish I could get a refund instead of replacement only. So much for paying a $100 premium. :mad:

Sorry for the rant. Had to get it off my chest! :D
 
I had a B1 lightning. Unstable at 1189 a 1.212v. Utter trash.

But my reference 780 does 1241 at the same volts and was £100 cheaper and easier to watercool. Lost a lot of faith in these "overclocking" cards, beyond be able to reach their stock clocks everything is a lottery
 
That is what I'm having trouble swallowing right now. My card is worse than most reference cards. I could have saved a lot of money going for a cheaper model.

I really wish I could get a refund and go with something else. My first time going with EVGA. Not very pleased at all. They charge a lot more for their cards so I expected more. :mad:
 
DLD said:
Just an update. Got my replacement 780 today, and its garbage!

The one that popped did 1300mhz game stable all day. This one can't even last 1 min in Unigine Heaven at 1215mhz!

I mean this is my 3rd 780 Classy in a little over a month and every one ended up being bad. Really wish I could get a refund instead of replacement only. So much for paying a $100 premium. :mad:

Sorry for the rant. Had to get it off my chest! :D
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Try to overclock it on another PC. My gut feeling is that you have issues with your PSU.

And I assume you have set an aggressive fan profile, not having the card crashing because of temps yes?
 
Panos said:
Try to overclock it on another PC. My gut feeling is that you have issues with your PSU.

And I assume you have set an aggressive fan profile, not having the card crashing because of temps yes?
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My PC is fine. I also bought a PSU tester and everything checks out 100%.

Its not a heat issues. At 1.2v it crashed at the boat in Heaven. Its still under 60c.

Also my last 780 clocked to 1300 at 1.25 and was game stable. Sadly something popped on it and this is what I got in return.

I had overclocked SLI 770s running for around 1 year in the same system without issue also. So its definitely just bad luck on getting dud cards :mad:
 
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