RIP My computer equipment :(

[lupi]

Recently had signs that the 480 gtx in one of my machines was going bad, found that it was overheating so I disabled it and switched over to the igpu. Couple days ago I was unable to transfer files to one hard drive, so planned on going into that one soon for more troubleshooting.

And then the other one would not stay powered on, and while trying to diagnose it it got to the point of failing to boot most of the time. So swapped out the spare PSU and all problems went away. A shame as that was the one that had a nice seasonic in it. Oh but look, it has a 7 year warranty, ya!

Or not, warranty was 5 years when I bought it, shifting to 7 years shortly after. Took that one in the shorts!

So today I get home early enough to look at the computer that had the vid card go bad and the hard drive act wonky (smart and windows diagnostics showed it was fine). Noticed as soon as I popped the cover it seemed a little warm. Went to remove the card and it was hot. Even disabled it was cranking up some heat so I'm guessing the fan/fan controller went bad. Luckily it was only swapping the sata cable for the HD to be back in fine shape.

So now I need to be looking for a new PSU as well as a new video card. At least the new AMD stuff coming soon so I can look at a 480 coming down.

Guess it's more like RIP my wallet, though guess I shouldn't complain too much as this is only my 2nd PSU and 3rd video card to go bad while in use on me.

 

[Mayne]

I had the exact same problem word for word in your post..kinda weird. I just bought a 750 ti and good to go.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

Ha had the same issue as you. My Corsair PSU died after moving it to a new case cause it didn't get enough clearance from the carpet to pull in cool air. Looked on the site and it said 10 year warranty. Awesome right!.. nope I had the prior refresh that was like 5 year warranty.

 

[lupi]

Well, in the strange world of deja vu, after having another PSU start to go bad but of a more recent purchase I started the RMA process. While doing so at EVGA, I happen to notice that the 280 and 480 where there listed in my account as lifetime warranty items. So looks like I'll be doing 3 RMAs and hoping for some good stuff

 

[daveybrat]

Well, in the strange world of deja vu, after having another PSU start to go bad but of a more recent purchase I started the RMA process. While doing so at EVGA, I happen to notice that the 280 and 480 where there listed in my account as lifetime warranty items. So looks like I'll be doing 3 RMAs and hoping for some good stuff

Awesome, let us know what they send you as replacements!

 

[lxskllr]

My e6600 based system I built 11 years ago is still chugging along. It's got leaking caps, and some components have died, but it still does what I need it to do. Hard to complain. It spent most of those years with a 30% overclock, and still has a 100mhz overclock. I have little desire to build a new system, but I guess I'll have to at some point.

 

[Ken g6]

Awesome, let us know what they send you as replacements!

For a 280 and 480? Probably a 1030 and 1050 respectively.

Naw, seriously I don't know, but those GPUs are really old.

 

[daveybrat]

For a 280 and 480? Probably a 1030 and 1050 respectively.

Naw, seriously I don't know, but those GPUs are really old.

I'd take both of those as replacements lol.

 

[VirtualLarry]

My e6600 based system I built 11 years ago is still chugging along. It's got leaking caps, and some components have died, but it still does what I need it to do. Hard to complain. It spent most of those years with a 30% overclock, and still has a 100mhz overclock. I have little desire to build a new system, but I guess I'll have to at some point.

Talk about getting their money's worth out of a rig...

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod...DesktopComputers-_-83286403-S2A4C&ignorebbr=1

EMCPRPR54

Haswell SFF PC with OS and Haswell quad, for ~$200. You're welcome.

 

[ultimatebob]

My old Core 2 Duo e6420 is still alive as well. The thermal paste is shot, though, so it thermal throttles to 1.6Ghz under load.

Absolutely useless system at this point, though... even my 6 year old laptop will run rings around it.

 

[lxskllr]

Talk about getting their money's worth out of a rig...

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod...DesktopComputers-_-83286403-S2A4C&ignorebbr=1

EMCPRPR54

Haswell SFF PC with OS and Haswell quad, for ~$200. You're welcome.

Looks like a good system for the $, but it would have to be half that for me to get a sff computer. I'm also not really enthused about prebuilts, but the idea isn't completely off the table.

I'm ok with what I have, It works, and every day it runs is one less day more shit gets in the landfill. What I do when it dies will be an interesting question. I have an unused abit mb I bought back in the day that'll work with everything in this tower. My new computer could very well end up being my old computer with a new nervous system :^D

 

[BD231]

Impressive, think I kept a 480 all of 4 months before I went bat shit insane over the fan noise.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I had the exact same problem word for word in your post..kinda weird. I just bought a 750 ti and good to go.

Did you buy it off Ebay recently by chance? Because I may be the one that sold it lol. That would be kinda funny. Small world....

 

[Captante]

Impressive, think I kept a 480 all of 4 months before I went bat shit insane over the fan noise.

About the same here ... also that card was HOT made the entire back of my full tower case warm to the touch after gaming!

Got a super-cheap deal from Newegg on an EVGA card though and used it to step-up to a 680.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I'm ok with what I have, It works, and every day it runs is one less day more shit gets in the landfill. What I do when it dies will be an interesting question. I have an unused abit mb I bought back in the day that'll work with everything in this tower. My new computer could very well end up being my old computer with a new nervous system :^D

So you subscribe to the "spare motherboard" persuasion too? I did that with a friend of mine's PC, it came in handy, when I upgraded his Core2 dual-core to a quad-core, and carelessly seemed to misplace a standoff, which of course, shorted his current board. Whoops. Thank goodness I had bought a spare months ago. He had an IP35-E, those were popular S775 ATX boards from Abit. Spare was an IP35 or IP35 Pro, non-E model, but it dropped in just fine into his current OS installation.

Unfortunately, that friend passed away, due to health issues (he chain-smoked, but that's probably not what killed him).

I've got another friend, that I built a PC for, like 10 years ago, and it's starting to look like either the PSU (replaced 1-2 years ago) or the mobo (10 years old) is starting to go. (I have a separate thread on that, Aigo suggested upping the voltages, even though this PC has always run the AMD Athlon II X4 CPU at stock.)

I bought that Gigabyte LM78T-USB3 R2 board for him, it's the closest thing I could find to a drop-in replacement for his ASRock AM2+ board these days. It will need some DDR3 RAM, but I've got some spare 16GB kits, got one in front of me. But then, since that board supports AM3+ CPUs too, I went out and bought him, an FX-8230E 8-core Vishera CPU to drop in, as an upgrade. Yeah, it's a bit long in the tooth these days.

I haven't installed it yet. Also picked up a Gigabyte Gaming 3 B350 board, for the Ryzen APUs, could get him one of those too. Probably more advanced technologically, but ... he needs to decide if he's going to stick with Win7 64-bit, or move on to Windows 10 64-bit. I don't think he's ready to move to Win10 yet.

 

[lupi]

After spending $50 to mail the PSU, 2 vid cards, and a ram set, have the 3 evga items enroute back. Guess there power supply testing goes quicker, they shipped that back after only a day of processing and 2 days for the cards.

Getting a set of 950+ for their replacements. Would have really liked it to been 970s.

Haven't gotten any notification yet from gskill on the ram.