pintycar
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System Name | CHINOi7 |
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Processor | i7 2600k |
Motherboard | Asus P8Z68-V PRO |
Cooling | Arctic Cooling Freezer 13 Pro |
Memory | 16GB (4x4GB) G Skill Ripjaws |
Video Card(s) | 2x5870 |
Storage | Corsair Force 3 120 GB SSD |
Display(s) | HP 22" something something |
Case | Antec 300 |
Audio Device(s) | Asus Xonar DG |
Power Supply | Be Quiet Dark Power Pro 750w |
Software | Windows 7 |
Hello techPowerUp people,
I'm pintycar and I'm kindly requesting your help. I will try to describe the problem as well as I can: I have an Asus 5870 v2 (I've had it for almost two years now) that crashes when subject to full load (so 3D clocks 850/1200 and more than 90% usage). It is fine in the desktop (157/300) or watching movies.
Details about my problem:
The crashing:
Blank screen (monitor/TV goes into sleep mode so no signal) and the fan spins at maximum speed. This happens for a few seconds and then the computer restarts. The error logs are inconclusive and only show a crash of the application that was running at the time.
Repeatability:
The same thing happens in two different systems. It was originally in a system powered by a Be Quiet dark power pro 750w together with another 5870 and used for mining at 930/180 with stock voltage and very confortable 70ºC temperatures (including VRM's). And now I've brought it home and tested it in a phenom 2 955 system with an "el cheapo" 750w psu which works perfectly fine with a gigabyte 5870 so PSU's are not the problem. I did a clean install of windows 7 so software/drivers are not the problem either.
I've seen a few threads : this or this one or this other one but they are all 2years old and have no/inconclusive/very varied answers.
So I'm asking you, do you think it's definitely the card? Is there anything I should try before I try to RMA it? Anyone has any experience with Asus RMA in europe? I bought this card like 22 months ago from eBay new. I've heard that ASUS has a 3yr warranty on graphics cards and that they calculate it by summing 3 months to the release date of the card to account for shelf time and they don't even check sales receipts. Is that true?
Thank you all for your time and I'm looking forward to hearing what you have to say.
I'm pintycar and I'm kindly requesting your help. I will try to describe the problem as well as I can: I have an Asus 5870 v2 (I've had it for almost two years now) that crashes when subject to full load (so 3D clocks 850/1200 and more than 90% usage). It is fine in the desktop (157/300) or watching movies.
Details about my problem:
The crashing:
Blank screen (monitor/TV goes into sleep mode so no signal) and the fan spins at maximum speed. This happens for a few seconds and then the computer restarts. The error logs are inconclusive and only show a crash of the application that was running at the time.
Repeatability:
The same thing happens in two different systems. It was originally in a system powered by a Be Quiet dark power pro 750w together with another 5870 and used for mining at 930/180 with stock voltage and very confortable 70ºC temperatures (including VRM's). And now I've brought it home and tested it in a phenom 2 955 system with an "el cheapo" 750w psu which works perfectly fine with a gigabyte 5870 so PSU's are not the problem. I did a clean install of windows 7 so software/drivers are not the problem either.
I've seen a few threads : this or this one or this other one but they are all 2years old and have no/inconclusive/very varied answers.
So I'm asking you, do you think it's definitely the card? Is there anything I should try before I try to RMA it? Anyone has any experience with Asus RMA in europe? I bought this card like 22 months ago from eBay new. I've heard that ASUS has a 3yr warranty on graphics cards and that they calculate it by summing 3 months to the release date of the card to account for shelf time and they don't even check sales receipts. Is that true?
Thank you all for your time and I'm looking forward to hearing what you have to say.