Back in mid-January I bought the "ForceBox Gamer Plus" bundle:
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-430-OE
For the graphics card I took the GTX 750Ti (https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-248-MS), because the entire system was nonetheless a ridiculous upgrade across the board compared to the one that suddenly imploded, and the bank had little interest in an overdraft request that didn't involve two barrels and a lot of buckshot.
The card overheats almost instantly with any even vaguely modern game with decent quality settings. Guild Wars 2 will kill it in a few minutes, but the eyebrow really goes up with how even Age of Wonders 3 and Cities Skylines make it die in minutes. Black screen lock up. Have to turn the PC off and on again.
And it's not even the card having particular trouble with the games; it actually freaking eats them alive, 80+ frames, sometimes 100+. It's just that if I reduce settings, it will continue to run at 100% by just firing out more frames and still kill itself with perhaps a few more minutes before it keels over. In order to actually play any of these games I have to limit the frame rate (often with VSync which takes it down to 60), have the fan set high, and drastically reduce quality settings. Then it doesn't run off the leash and kill itself.
It's not the GPU itself, I can FurMark the hell out of it and play any game without it ever going beyond 75C when Afterburner is automatically ramping the fan speed. I certainly wouldn't consider the OC team liars when they tested this thing and gave it the green light; only the 'stress test' of shoving a game through it shows how quickly it falls over.
I think it might be the VRM considering how it's clearly a problem with card heat, but the actual GPU itself isn't the issue. I tried running a VMT pass on it, and it's fine, but I'll be honest.....I look at the interface and readme of that program and my brains started to leak out of my nose.
I've never had a card behave like this before. Normally if a card can't handle a game it just.....runs the game badly. This 750Ti handles games absolutely fine but overheats itself regardless in the process of producing a hilarious amount of frames.
.....yeah, proofreading that....it's just gonna be a straight RMA isn't it. Should I ask to get the GTX 960 that's 'standard' with the bundle I bought, or will I have better luck with another 750Ti?
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-430-OE
For the graphics card I took the GTX 750Ti (https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-248-MS), because the entire system was nonetheless a ridiculous upgrade across the board compared to the one that suddenly imploded, and the bank had little interest in an overdraft request that didn't involve two barrels and a lot of buckshot.
The card overheats almost instantly with any even vaguely modern game with decent quality settings. Guild Wars 2 will kill it in a few minutes, but the eyebrow really goes up with how even Age of Wonders 3 and Cities Skylines make it die in minutes. Black screen lock up. Have to turn the PC off and on again.
And it's not even the card having particular trouble with the games; it actually freaking eats them alive, 80+ frames, sometimes 100+. It's just that if I reduce settings, it will continue to run at 100% by just firing out more frames and still kill itself with perhaps a few more minutes before it keels over. In order to actually play any of these games I have to limit the frame rate (often with VSync which takes it down to 60), have the fan set high, and drastically reduce quality settings. Then it doesn't run off the leash and kill itself.
It's not the GPU itself, I can FurMark the hell out of it and play any game without it ever going beyond 75C when Afterburner is automatically ramping the fan speed. I certainly wouldn't consider the OC team liars when they tested this thing and gave it the green light; only the 'stress test' of shoving a game through it shows how quickly it falls over.
I think it might be the VRM considering how it's clearly a problem with card heat, but the actual GPU itself isn't the issue. I tried running a VMT pass on it, and it's fine, but I'll be honest.....I look at the interface and readme of that program and my brains started to leak out of my nose.
I've never had a card behave like this before. Normally if a card can't handle a game it just.....runs the game badly. This 750Ti handles games absolutely fine but overheats itself regardless in the process of producing a hilarious amount of frames.
.....yeah, proofreading that....it's just gonna be a straight RMA isn't it. Should I ask to get the GTX 960 that's 'standard' with the bundle I bought, or will I have better luck with another 750Ti?