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Have I fixed my graphics card?

craptakular

craptakular

craptakular

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Hi,

I bought a B-grade GTX260 last year and was fine for months but then it started to display a thin pink line all the way down my monitor.

I bought a 5770 and was going to bin the GTX260, but just put it in the loft instead.

I got it down last night and today I stripped the heatsink of, used Tim cleaner to clean the old paste of and re-applied a healthy amount of MX-3 paste.

Put the card back in my machine and after a few rounds of MW2 the temp only went to 55C. I haven't had any curruption yet, I may still get some as the curruption last time would appear then go again etc etc.

The point of my post was to say is curruptoin temp related?

Lastly, if this g card is fixed, which is better GTX260 or my 5770?
 
Its probably the same old BGA solder failure - which is usually triggered by temperature - either cold start failure or getting to warm... heat/cooling cycles seem to make it worse but you never know with this problem the last cooling cycle or if its not getting to hot could solve it indeffinatly.

The 260 is the better card - but lacks DX11 so doesn't have as much future... tho its debatable how well a single 5770 will handle proper DX11.
 
siumatfung said:
run some stress tests on it or have a monster maratho on MW2 will u sure its stable :D guess u could sell it to fund a 2nd 5770 :D
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lol I had a second 5770 but sold it, glitches with flashbangs annoyed me in FPS's.

Not bothering with dual g cards again.

What stress tests do you suggest?
 
Rroff said:
Its probably the same old BGA solder failure - which is usually triggered by temperature - either cold start failure or getting to warm... heat/cooling cycles seem to make it worse but you never know with this problem the last cooling cycle or if its not getting to hot could solve it indeffinatly.

The 260 is the better card - but lacks DX11 so doesn't have as much future... tho its debatable how well a single 5770 will handle proper DX11.
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I was thinking a cold or cracked solder joint, as well and was gonna say the problem will reoccur without a proper reflow. But by the sounds of it, the problem was due to overheating so my guess is that the memory was probably overheating instead, causing your artifacting (pink line).

Hope your gtx260 goes on living mate :)
 
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