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My card just died

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Dice144

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My water cooling loop just died. Was playing Starcraft match for 2 hours. Look over and the table has water all over it. The pump tube somehow got kinked (was a temporary setup) because I planned to go air when the 980Ti or 390x comes out.

I lost the screws to go back to air on my reference 290x so using 4770k onboard for a month or get a stop gap GPU?
 
Find out what the screw size is for the reference cooler and get some replacements. They are probably M3 flathead screws, you'll have to figure out the length...
 
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Feel your pain, accidentally spilled coffee on my GTX 970 (really no idea how it got in there), I had it with the side panel off for few days. I turned it off normally and the next day it didn't output signal, checked the GPU and had a bit of coffee over the DVI port, tried different ports and turn on but still no signal. Sold the rest of my computer parts, no games until Skylake.
 
tviceman said:
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/GeForce_GTX_760_TF_Gaming/21.html

"Easily" with all the graphics options turned down and lower than 1080p resolution. If the OP doesn't want the kind of experience, then he'll want a R9 270 / GTX 750 TI or better solution as a stop gap.
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Lmao turn up all the bells and whistles in a competitive online game. I did just as well on a gaming PC as I did on a laptop while laddering in Starcraft. If ur obsessed at staring at "max graphics" in a game that's already below average graphically you aren't competing.
 
Well, I also play Dragonage Inq, Titanfall and Fallout New Vegas. Using a 4k monitor but will downscale to 1080 for some games (the 290x had too also). Guess I will try iGPU till we get an offical release date or get a 280x or something 🙂
 
iSkylaker said:
Feel your pain, accidentally spilled coffee on my GTX 970 (really no idea how it got in there), I had it with the side panel off for few days. I turned it off normally and the next day it didn't output signal, checked the GPU and had a bit of coffee over the DVI port, tried different ports and turn on but still no signal. Sold the rest of my computer parts, no games until Skylake.
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I feel your pain. When my system self destructed this time last year I decided to wait two months for devils canyon. That was a long long wait. I played on a windows partition on my 13" macbook ( Iris 5100 GPU) and that was very limited to be honest. Oddly enough though, Fallout New Vegas ran well on it.
 
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Contact the card manufacturer, they can likely send you some replacement screws, free or at a nominal cost.
 
I've purchased the tiny replacement screws at home depot for mounting a heatsink to the GPU, so you should be able to get them for like a dollar or so.

The trick is to bring in the heatsink to Home Depot. Then you can just test the screw for proper fit. You need to match two things, the diameter of the screw, and also the thread pitch (because they will probably have the same diameter screw in two different thread pitches, so you can try both to make sure which one fits).
 
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