Trying to avoid any further issues... its being returned to newegg as we speak, not an issue on that end, however, I am curious what possibly could have happened.
When I first got the card, I was able to get a "mostly" stable 4.6ghz around the 1.386 volt mark without adding any other voltages. Then it started crashing after a few days, so I backed it off t 4.5ghz. Worked fine, then that started crashing as well. I upped to voltage to 1.4 mark, and that seemed to help. CPUID voltages were NEVER in line with the bios voltage settings. I.e. the voltage droop was pretty god awful and at "1.4" bios, i was looking around 1.32-1.36 volts best. From there 4.5 stopped working, so I dropped to 4.0 and lowered the voltage to around 1.36 volts iirc. That worked for a couple days, than again, started not working. I said "Screw it" and reset cmos and left it alone. That seemed to be ok, except my computer would freeze randomly requiring a reboot, which is not "ok".
This morning, went to turn on computer... and no joy. Wouldnt even get to the bios screen. It would "turn on" but literally do nothing. I moved all other components to my old mobo, and everything is working fine there, pretty much narrows it down to the motherboard.
Sorry for the novel, I just don't really understand why it would work fine, then crap out, then work fine... etc etc. Any ideas appreciated.
When I first got the card, I was able to get a "mostly" stable 4.6ghz around the 1.386 volt mark without adding any other voltages. Then it started crashing after a few days, so I backed it off t 4.5ghz. Worked fine, then that started crashing as well. I upped to voltage to 1.4 mark, and that seemed to help. CPUID voltages were NEVER in line with the bios voltage settings. I.e. the voltage droop was pretty god awful and at "1.4" bios, i was looking around 1.32-1.36 volts best. From there 4.5 stopped working, so I dropped to 4.0 and lowered the voltage to around 1.36 volts iirc. That worked for a couple days, than again, started not working. I said "Screw it" and reset cmos and left it alone. That seemed to be ok, except my computer would freeze randomly requiring a reboot, which is not "ok".
This morning, went to turn on computer... and no joy. Wouldnt even get to the bios screen. It would "turn on" but literally do nothing. I moved all other components to my old mobo, and everything is working fine there, pretty much narrows it down to the motherboard.
Sorry for the novel, I just don't really understand why it would work fine, then crap out, then work fine... etc etc. Any ideas appreciated.