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Redurb'd Nvidia GTX570 problems

Some funny views being posted in this thread!

The OP has been unlucky by the sound of it, got a duff card I'd guess.

He sends it back (RMA or DSR) and gets another.


Just as he would with a brand new one - and guess what? New cards can arrive faulty too!

Dear God!


If somebody can point out what I'm missing here, fire away!:rolleyes:
 
Jinjur said:
WTF dude? 205 quid is not cheapskate money. Yes I could have put 50 quid to it to buy a "brand new" one but that could suffer the same fate. And for what it s worth, I expect absolutely nothing different form a product thats brand new or refurbished in functionality stakes.
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That is exactly why they are cheaper!

Dsr it and buy yourself a new card, if you can't afford the extra then the 560/6950 are not very far off at all, most of the time you probably won't even notice it.

I agree new parts can be doa, but personally, I would never get a high end refurbished PC component period.

I wouldn't want the possibility of receiving a very hot running part of my PC that has possibly been ran at stupidly overclocked speeds for three months before it blew off, one the memory chips.

That chips been replaced and the card now runs happily at stock speeds.

Next year you might want to squeeze that little bit extra out of it and take your pick out of what's going to blow. All because the previous owner stressed the life out of the card.

That's what my head tells me of just one scenario out of many.

Out of all my Electrical goods, be it TV, Stereos, White goods, I've always bought it new, when I'm spending my cash, I wan't the longest lasting, warranted use that I can possibly get.
 
To be honest i expected it to be fine with a new PSU as i thought it could well have been your tagan.

The only other options you have really are to try a new install of windows just to be sure you have a clean slate so to speak.

Also, if possible increase the PCI-E frequency in the BIOS to 101Mhz, i once had to do this with a very fussy 8800GTX and it solved a lot of problems i had with the card.

If you had been closer id have let you test it in my machine :(
 
Interesting,

I have two 570`s in sli and get exactly the same furmark situation as you. Can anyone else with a 570 try this and show us a furmark video so that we can compare?

I wonder if its just a 570 / nvidia thing?
 
Also Jin,

My cards run every game fine, its really only furmark they have a problem with. Im just not sure we should use the Furmark output as any indicator of the GPU`s health.

Unless other people with 570`s can post what it runs like for them?
 
So is what is shown in JinJur`s video normal? From the nvidia FAQ it seems so?

Jin can you run 3dmark11 or something similar and I will disable one card to give you a benchmark? Will have to be this evening though
 
I will indeed....is that a free D/L or does that cost bucks?

Cos i aint gont none.

Again, my GTX275 has absolutely no problem with furmark and does better than the 570

Oh, and regarding the nVidia link.....I am not stressing the card at all. I literally run it for a few seconds. What you saw in the video was as much as it has ever been done and the computer has been off since.

I have also seen GTX570 Crysis 2 videos online and tbh, they seem to demolish my experience at the same settings.

:)

J
 
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Jin,

its free, just run the basic test

As for furmark, it seems that the fermi cards throttle when running furmark so the card doesn`t die due to the stress on the shaders,

This wont have been throttled on your old card, My 570`s do exactly the same as yours, and mine are fine apart from this
 
Jin,

Furmark puts a huge amount of stress on the card (it basically loads every shader with mathmatical instructions from what i can tell) and it seems nvidia throttle internally when this is detected.

Im not saying there isnt a problem, but i dont think furmark is a good indicator for our cards
 
EVGA_Nick said:
Keep in mind: http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answ...sion/L3RpbWUvMTMxNDY5MjQ0MS9zaWQvRGxvbnVQQ2s=
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Interesting, I read "Furmark" as "Futuremark", so not sure if it's even worth trying that application given that warning, although I'm intrigued.

"tommybhoy" I also have a re-furb GTX 570 which has turned out to be faulty, one of the DVi slots on the card doesn't work, so I assume this is the reason it was returned or maybe it will pop in 13 months, who knows.

OP is just unlucky, out of the 10/15 GTX570's refurbs OcUK had how many do you think have been returned faulty?
 
MrRoper said:
Also Jin,

My cards run every game fine, its really only furmark they have a problem with.
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So all your games work fine?

Step away from the benchmark!

If I had £1 for every hour I've wasted faffing with benchmarks etc. I'd be a rich chap!

I've given up messing with them now and I enjoy my PC far more!

I mean, who for example would test their car to the point of destruction, just to make sure its running right?
 
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Ok chaps.....I will try as you all suggest. Downloading now.

I run this at 1920 x 1200......can anyone recommend me settings for 3dmark that will allow us to compare like for like as much as possible?

Thanks
Jinj
 
R420LA6X2/4MNA said:
So all your games work fine?

Step away from the benchmark!

If I had £1 for every hour I've wasted faffing with benchmarks etc. I'd be a rich chap!

I've given up messing with them now and I enjoy my PC far more!

I mean, who for example would test their car to the point of destruction, just to make sure its running right?
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Tottaly agree mate, its difficult though when you want to test if your setup is running at optimal.

But yes all my games seem to work fine, I have a few with issues but these are normally SLI related problems.

Playing witcher 2 at the moment and that runs fine as does Crysis2 with both cards getting pretty much maxed out
 
R420LA6X2/4MNA said:
So all your games work fine?

Step away from the benchmark!

If I had £1 for every hour I've wasted faffing with benchmarks etc. I'd be a rich chap!

I've given up messing with them now and I enjoy my PC far more!

I mean, who for example would test their car to the point of destruction, just to make sure its running right?
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Thats the difference with me chap, my games dont run fine......I have noticed little or no difference in Crysis 2 at the same settings and the same stuttering/crackling seems to be happening

J
 
Jinjur said:
Ok chaps.....I will try as you all suggest. Downloading now.

I run this at 1920 x 1200......can anyone recommend me settings for 3dmark that will allow us to compare like for like as much as possible?

Thanks
Jinj
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Jin, just run one of the benchmark presets, dont thinkyou can change the settings with the free edition, and let me know what settings if any you had set. Also set your nvidia control panel to defaults so that no AA is being forced etc
 
Jin, did you do a clean driver installation? also what is your gpu usage like when running crysis?

Run afterburner or invidia inspector in the background for 10 mins and post a screen shot of the graphs
 
Ok, will do matey.

May not get at it right now as we have a 2 day old baby girl to look after at last.

But i do need to get this sorted to establish if there is a problem.

Im not keeping a 700w psu if i dont need it.

And, FWIW.....i read the box of my gtx275 last night and the PSU specs are FAR higher than the requirement of the GTX570. My Tagan did just dandy with that.

J
 
Congrats on the baby girl mate, You wont have time for gaming! :)

im not convinced that this is a hardware problem tbh mate, but the noise could be faulty vrm`s maybe?
 
MrRoper said:
Jin, did you do a clean driver installation? also what is your gpu usage like when running crysis?

Run afterburner or invidia inspector in the background for 10 mins and post a screen shot of the graphs
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Yeah man, always do a clean install. I use the nVidia cleaner built into the installer now though. I trust thats enough?
 
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