- Joined
- Feb 22, 2009
So I had my first Nvidia casualty EVER. I have been using Nvidia 10 years and outside of the occasional fan noise I have never had one up and die on me.
I noticed yesterday that the Fan seem to be blowing at full RPMs. I have two of the same cards in SLI so it was easy to compare the noise. I then looked and found that the bad card wasn't showing up in the Control Panel and it happened to be the 2nd card that isn't hooked up to the monitor.
I did the old swip swap back and forth to trouble shoot and yup.... shes dead.
The bad part is this card is only about a month and a half old, and outside of a few bench tests, it runs stock about 97% of its life. Has anyone lost a video card within a month or two of ownership recently?
So I started the RMA last night, and lemme say, BFG was pretty matter of fact. They asked a few questions and then sent me an email to RMA it. I asked if he could assure me of getting a GTX 260. (Getting something else would not work with my SLI and just one GTX 275 or something wouldn't be as fast.) Anyways its the weekend so I will ship it out on Monday (fingers crossed). Thank god for SLI I guess it leaves me with the option of a Back up.
I noticed yesterday that the Fan seem to be blowing at full RPMs. I have two of the same cards in SLI so it was easy to compare the noise. I then looked and found that the bad card wasn't showing up in the Control Panel and it happened to be the 2nd card that isn't hooked up to the monitor.
I did the old swip swap back and forth to trouble shoot and yup.... shes dead.
The bad part is this card is only about a month and a half old, and outside of a few bench tests, it runs stock about 97% of its life. Has anyone lost a video card within a month or two of ownership recently?
So I started the RMA last night, and lemme say, BFG was pretty matter of fact. They asked a few questions and then sent me an email to RMA it. I asked if he could assure me of getting a GTX 260. (Getting something else would not work with my SLI and just one GTX 275 or something wouldn't be as fast.) Anyways its the weekend so I will ship it out on Monday (fingers crossed). Thank god for SLI I guess it leaves me with the option of a Back up.