charles555
Limp Gawd
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- Jan 30, 2005
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I bought this card from someone on the forums and I have no idea. He didn't say anything about it. It's PNY, so I can RMA it right? For poor heatsink contact...
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mavalpha said:How hot is the rest of your rig?
PNY has a bad habit of asking for a receipt in order to RMA. Ordinarily, though, 100C is alright for video cards. Everyone around here says that the 6800 throttles at 127C in most driver releases.
Catboxer said:I also got a PNY card from someone here on FSFT about a month ago. As far as I can tell you are SOL if you want an RMA from PNY. They want an original sales receipt and claim the warrenty is void if you bought it from another end user.
aZn_plyR said:I am pretty sure that the temp is reading wrong...do you see artifatcs when playing games? but i guess you should return it anyways
Shifra said:Dont buy cards off forums from users that dont have alot of credit, dont buy cards off ebay from users that dont have alot of credit, dont take cards apart and think you know what you're doing. Dont pin blame on PNY. They have no right to honor that warranty. Blow the dust out of the card heatsink and get an NV Silencer. Do not attempt to run card without its fan on the card itself, you will destroy it.
charles555 said:The blame IS on nVidia and PNY for the release of a buggy temp driver. This card is by no means NEW, and still they have not fixed it.
And FUCK YOU for telling me I don't know what I'm doing. Then in the next sentence he tells me to go out and buy an aftermarket heatsink and take it apart...
Shifra said:The level of maturity is astounding. No one forces you to use a bugy driver, you can use any you choose, theres plenty out there. You seemed to of already took it apart so you might as well go the whole way. I said that in regaurds to any future purchases. The fact that you think an 80mm fan blowing on the core would be better cooling shows lack luster knowledge. Basically you just came in here, told everyone the card seems odd and you bought it used, so you want to RMA it but first your going to take it apart and mess with it. It also seems to work fine but the PCB gets kinda hot. Right....please watch your language. Good day.
swetmore said:I have a PNY 6800 NU, and the PCB gets very warm during gaming. I have the core water cooled, and if I don't have the water block seated perfectly, the temp will jump from 45 - 75 idle.
The cooling solutions on the 6800's are junk. You might try an NV silencer. If you feel that the temps are not reading correctly, can you put your finger on the back of the card (under the GPU) without burning your finger after a sec?