My GTX 295 lasted four days

[Gutcheck2009]

It was fast when it was alive.

Suddenly my PC just beeps at me and I see nothing. EVGA confirms it deadness.

What I did notice when I had it installed was it was HOT! you could not really touch the top without hurting your hand a bit.

 

[Hauk]

Time for a Gutcheck! EVGA will right things. A real bummer though..

 

[thilanliyan]

I saw similar posts over at XS...something about improper HSF and core contact.

 

[Hauk]

That would have been my guess. Complex card, imagine working that line 8 hours a day. Somewhere in China workers have been churning those out with deadline stress supervisors watching over them.

 

[WaTaGuMp]

My 8800GTX from eVGA also took a dive, but it ran for a long time and of course a new one was sent without issues, then after getting my 4870 it sold on ebay easily. For the record mine also started giving beep codes which lead me to believe it was a memory issue on the card.

 

[Gutcheck2009]

eVGA is the bomb though.... We diagnosed the card together as dead. It was really hard. When we determined that there was no video, we suspected the card.

The only reason I bought this was to get in the 90 day line for what I hope is a stupid fast next gen card. I buy a vid card every year, but this is bar none, the most I have ever spent. I sold my GTX 280 for 260 bucks though, that helped.

 

[Raider1284]

Originally posted by: thilan29
I saw similar posts over at XS...something about improper HSF and core contact.

If the HSF wasnt making contact correctly the heatsink wouldnt be hot. Since the heatsink is hot in the OPs case then it either is just insufficient cooling or the physical card was just defective.

 

[thilanliyan]

Originally posted by: Raider1284

Originally posted by: thilan29
I saw similar posts over at XS...something about improper HSF and core contact.

If the HSF wasnt making contact correctly the heatsink wouldnt be hot. Since the heatsink is hot in the OPs case then it either is just insufficient cooling or the physical card was just defective.

That's true...just what I read at XS...some people said they were getting very high temps.

Don't know where this guy got his info but "jcool" at XS wrote:
"Anyway, I fear the GTX 295 might face the same disastrous QA failure we had with the 280.. almost 40% of the cards were shipped with craptastic IHS - core contact, thus overheating.."

 

[Gutcheck2009]

Well I got a new one, and check this out. I stuck it in there and windows couldn't boot, gave me a disk error (wtf?)

Installed 64 for the first time, so far so good. My RAID gives me nothing but hell.

 

[PCTC2]

My eVGA GTX 260 Core216SC 55nm lasted me 3 hours. But they sent me a new one after I sent it back. I'm happy.

 

[TidusZ]

my 295 has been running for about 6 hours so far so good. Hope mine lasts four days, fingers are crossed.

I'd just like to add, with my overclock in sig I max out at 70 celcius with the fan at 70% using furmark + burn + msaa. 48c at idle, with the fan inaudible. I've yet to set up a good fan profile. I guess my sandwich was made just right.

 

[thilanliyan]

Originally posted by: TidusZ
my 295 has been running for about 6 hours so far so good. Hope mine lasts four days, fingers are crossed.

I'd just like to add, with my overclock in sig I max out at 70 celcius with the fan at 70% using furmark + burn + msaa. 48c at idle, with the fan inaudible. I've yet to set up a good fan profile. I guess my sandwich was made just right.

Is it stressing both cores?
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...=2272807&enterthread=y

 

[MrK6]

Originally posted by: TidusZ
my 295 has been running for about 6 hours so far so good. Hope mine lasts four days, fingers are crossed.

I'd just like to add, with my overclock in sig I max out at 70 celcius with the fan at 70% using furmark + burn + msaa. 48c at idle, with the fan inaudible. I've yet to set up a good fan profile. I guess my sandwich was made just right.

Yah make sure you're using both cores, it'll shoot it to 85C+

Anyway, no complaints about my GTX 295, it just runs hot. Nature of the beast and expected considering you're sandwiching two cards high-end cards and drawing 250-300W at load :Q

 

[TidusZ]

yeah, like 85c at load with 100% fan speed, never above 75c in games. The fan is loud as hell though, I am gonna have to change my fan profile a bit to let it run hotter and quieter.

 

[Gutcheck2009]

how do I make sure I am running both cores? EVGA precision shows the temps for them both.....

 

[TidusZ]

Occt gpu you have to have it in fullscreen for it to use both gpu cores. Apparently the newest version of furmark can do it as well but the install gave me trouble so I said screw it. If one gpu is a lot cooler than the other it's probably not being utilized. Mind you, it will still rise in temperature somewhat.