MSi gaming R9 270 fan oil leak?

[Sean_UK]

Upon reading this thread I’ve checked my GTX770 Gaming Edition; oil all over shroud and motherboard, but the fans are not rattling as yet.

Also asked my brother to check his GTX770 Gaming Edition bought around the same time; told me it's covered in oil & one fan rattling bad with anything over 50% fan speed.

Not impressed considering both cards are only 8 months into used life...

Here's mine

 

[jh30uk]

 

[humbug]

Upon reading this thread I’ve checked my GTX770 Gaming Edition; oil all over shroud and motherboard, but the fans are not rattling as yet.

Also asked my brother to check his GTX770 Gaming Edition bought around the same time; told me it's covered in oil & one fan rattling bad with anything over 50% fan speed.

Not impressed considering both cards are only 8 months into used life...

Here's mine

MSI should withdraw these from sale until this is fixed.

Liquid and electricity.

 

[jh30uk]

Well oil does not conduct normally esp. mineral oil (think of a transformer) or a PC dropped in it.

http://www.pugetsystems.com/mineral-oil-pc.php

 

[humbug]

Well oil does not conduct normally esp. mineral oil (think of a transformer) or a PC dropped in it.



http://www.pugetsystems.com/mineral-oil-pc.php

Granted, but whose fine with this GPU smearing their Motherboard with oil?

I'd be claiming for my oil smeared Asus Sabertooth, you can be sure of that.

 

[jh30uk]

I never said it was fine to accept this ballsup but you did say "Liquid and electricity" but its oil so no doubt cannot conduct even if not mineral.

Nor should deionized water.

 

[shatpank81]

Bit worried about my 780 gaming now
Will have to keep an eye on this..
This 3 year warranty is it with msi or ocuk?

 

[alex_123_fra]

Bit worried about my 780 gaming now
Will have to keep an eye on this..
This 3 year warranty is it with msi or ocuk?

Perfect excuse to watercool I think

 

[shankly1985]

Had my two out case out day and didn't notice anything like this.

 

[Gripen90]

Checked my bottom MSI GTX 780 TwinFrozr Gaming card, but it's clean and no leaking. It's about 7months old too.

 

[Neil79]

https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=178153.0

I'm confident they know, there def seemed to be a bad batch of fans. Not sure the s/n's / card effected though.

 

[Clairvoyant]

My 280s that have gone back for artifacting, looked like oil had leaked on both.

 

[Roady]

270 here with a little oil, nothing major but card isn't 'inverted' in this system like usual setups. Card is a few weeks old, will be keeping an eye on it!

My older 7950 TwinFrozrIII doesn't have any leaks.

 

[Roady]

(I'd get it now but I'm unable to pay via PayPal, address unconfirmed for some reason, checked my account, it's verified and confirmed, no idea why.)

I have that problem with PayPal too, went through it with CS and they said nothings wrong their end... I don't have PayPal problems anywhere else.

Just took it as one of the many 'gremlins' with the OcUK site.

 

[Sean_UK]

asked my brother to check his GTX770 Gaming Edition bought around the same time; told me it's covered in oil & one fan rattling bad with anything over 50% fan speed.

Visited my brother today to inspect condition his MSi GTX770 >

Oil flicked at the motherboard by fan blades >

Brothers card was puchased from OcUK so will be contacting them when time permits for RMA. As the right fan suffers from faint rattle under 35% speed and sounds very unhealthy with increased speeds.

 

[Neil79]

You can clearly see the oil on the first picture, right side fan casing!

I checked mine, no oil as of yet

 

[MrMarvelous]

Jesus what's happening to MSi lately? The last 2 months or so all i've seen is ****-ups from them.

 

[Spike_UK]

My RMA has been marked as returned without replacement and that the items won't be returned to me unless I pay a charge.

Technicians replies on both cards are "excessive bearing oil not classes as fault, does not interfear with card opperation." and "excessive fan bearing oil, not extensive to be classed as fault. does not interfear with cards opperation.".

There's no mention about the seized fan which is the reason I sent started the RMA process in first place. You only have to power the card up to see that fan has failed.

Trying to contact OCUK now as I don't want to pay to have my cards returned only for the problem to still exist. I'm fine about the one that just has oil on being returned, but not the one with seized fans. Not impressed.

 

[jh30uk]

Take legal action against them (used to be Trading Standards).

Neither of those cards is acceptable, even if leak never eventually became a seized fan.

Tell them you have dermatitis after touching the card.

 

[Spike_UK]

Was hoping it was just going to be simple as one of the cards was so obviously faulty.