Some days ago my friend and i had exchanged each others card for testing purposes but i quickly found out there was something wrong with the RAM and after the initial find the artifacts got more and more prominent.
We got in touch with RPtech the retail seller and they changed the card in a weeks time the new card was a XFX 280 XXX and the sight of the green art on the car was lovely... After installing the card on his PC, i started to install the drivers from the CD and then run a ATi tool and Fur test "Only after 5-10 mins the temp went from 60ish to 90ish and kept climbing slowly.
I knew something was wrong i shut the computer off and rechecked everything but alas even after several tries the dam thing had this temp problem which was odd to say the least. I called the shop the tech. support told me download the latest drivers and check the fan then he told me to check the power supply and then at last he told me that my M/B must be incompatible "For crying out loud" After explaining the whole RMA, etc situation they guy said a few words "The card appears to have a damaged sink pls replace it from the shop "
Have you guys experienced such temp. problems with your xfx 280 xxx???
I'm locking this, but only because we currently have a GTX280 temp failure thread on the front page:
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...=2208078&enterthread=y
Video Mod BFG10K.
We got in touch with RPtech the retail seller and they changed the card in a weeks time the new card was a XFX 280 XXX and the sight of the green art on the car was lovely... After installing the card on his PC, i started to install the drivers from the CD and then run a ATi tool and Fur test "Only after 5-10 mins the temp went from 60ish to 90ish and kept climbing slowly.
I knew something was wrong i shut the computer off and rechecked everything but alas even after several tries the dam thing had this temp problem which was odd to say the least. I called the shop the tech. support told me download the latest drivers and check the fan then he told me to check the power supply and then at last he told me that my M/B must be incompatible "For crying out loud" After explaining the whole RMA, etc situation they guy said a few words "The card appears to have a damaged sink pls replace it from the shop "
Have you guys experienced such temp. problems with your xfx 280 xxx???
I'm locking this, but only because we currently have a GTX280 temp failure thread on the front page:
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...=2208078&enterthread=y
Video Mod BFG10K.
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