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GPU just died...

HankScorpio

HankScorpio

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I think my 7970 just went kaput... :(

http://i.imgur.com/KHdQmHS.jpg

Was bowsing with chrome, loading a picture and just got a sky blue screen. PC wouldn't boot to post screen with it in.

I bought it in April 2012 and been using it ever since. Tried to max overclock it and it wasn't much stable above 1100 without silly volts so I knocked it down to 925Mhz and undervolted it as much as I could. Think it was sitting on 0.9 something for most of its life.

Now I did run Folding@home on it for the past 3 years almost everyday and it's amassed something like 8 or 9 million points on its own. Anyone think this slowly killed it?

Always kept an eye on the temps and it'd rarely be over 60c when under load.

Drivers would crash now and again when loading video, but playing games like Bf4 it'd be fine and ran great.

Is it safe to say it's died? Anyone know of a way to revive it, popping it in the oven or something?
 
There should still be some warranty, so I would try contacting the place where you bought it.

Does the PC boot with the IGP?
 
Bought it from OcUK in Apr 2012. Can't load the link from my account to see the warranty. Pretty sure it was 2 years though.

Using the HD4000 ipgu, but just bought a 1440p monitor from MM and this thing will only go upto 1080p... Looks proper jarg like..
 
Probably, the VRM's on modern high end graphics cards (particularly reference) are usually a bit **** and only cooled with normal usages in mind, that's why things like Furmark are considered dangerous and throttled via drivers - they'd cause VRM's to overheat and die prematurely. I'd imagine 3 years of heavy Folding would put a lot of strain on them even when undervolted.
 
I stopped folding about 2 months ago. The leccy was just draining so fast in my new house so I just uninstalled the program. Been sitting pretty ever since, apart from youtube driver crashes. This new 1440p monitor maybe pushed it over the edge when there might have been some damage done from heavy usage in the past perhaps?

It was a VTX3D 7970 1050Mhz edition. Anyone know how to find out what the warranty on it from OcUK was ? Page doesn't load anymore.
Nevermind, just found from an old thread it's 2 years.... :(
 
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