RTCW almost killed my Visontek GF3 Ti200..is it possible??

[LostHiWay]

I've had my Visiontek GF3 Ti200 clocked at 220/480 for the past 2 months or so with no problems or artifacts at all. I recently installed RTCW and about 2 seconds after the game starts 1/2 my screen starts going crazy. I mananged to exit the game and I clocked my card down to the default. After I did this it ran perfect. I thought the install of RTCW might have been bad so I unistalled it and clocked my card back to 220/480. Same thing happend in Windows.

After fooling with it for a while I took the card out and noticed that a capacitor was half way hanging off. I pushed it back down and secured it and tried it again and now everything works fine at 220/480 even RTCW. Could a game cause a capacitor to blow?

Also should I RMA the card? It's working perfect now.

 

[Adul]

RMA the card, the game didn't cause it. It did reveal that the card has a weakness though.

 

[Mem]

<< After fooling with it for a while I took the card out and noticed that a capacitor was half way hanging off >>



Sounds like the Capacitor was the problem here so I would RMA the card for a replacement.

 

[serialb]

VisionTek is pretty cool and fast with their RMA service. Definitely RMA it.

 

[Mavrick007]

Yep, the concensus is right, RMA that while you still can.

 

[LostHiWay]

Thanks I'm going to RMA it. I might just fleabay the replacement since this will be the 2nd Visiontek product to go out on me. Probably just my bad luck though.

 

[Mavrick007]

Inspect the new card when you get it, if something looks wrong about it, then don't waste any time and get a new one.

If it's past the warranty period on any product and you can fix the card, then you don't have much to lose by fixing it.