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Kazinsal posted:New PSU did nothing. Card is dead, 8 months after purchased. Should still be in warranty then, no?
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Kazinsal posted:New PSU did nothing. Card is dead, 8 months after purchased. They have warranties.
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Aug 13, 2015 03:19
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If I were to buy a used 980 with the intent of ripping off the HSF and throwing a AIO loop on it, is there any brands I should particularly prefer or stay away from?
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DrDork posted:If I were to buy a used 980 with the intent of ripping off the HSF and throwing a AIO loop on it, is there any brands I should particularly prefer or stay away from? I'd try to get an EVGA one, they have a 3-year transferable warranty and EVGA does not give a crap if you take the cooler off or replace it with an AIO, just keep the old cooler and toss it back on if you have to RMA it.
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Aug 13, 2015 03:34
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The Iron Rose posted:Should still be in warranty then, no? Not transferable on open box hardware. Stupid loving decision on my part. Totally hosed myself. Jury rigged card didn't work. Won't output once windows starts to boot.
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Aug 13, 2015 04:06
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Kazinsal posted:Not transferable on open box hardware. Stupid loving decision on my part. Totally hosed myself. Did you try a heatsink with zipties, or did you try the waterblock with a ziptied fan?
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Aug 13, 2015 04:09
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Kazinsal posted:Not transferable on open box hardware. Stupid loving decision on my part. Totally hosed myself. Always help a fellow goon out. :unzip:
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Aug 13, 2015 04:52
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FaustianQ posted:Did you try a heatsink with zipties, or did you try the waterblock with a ziptied fan? Heatsink with zipties and a 120mm fan. Output in the BIOS but nothing after. I'm going to just pull out an old laptop I have lying around, clean it out, install windows 8, hook it up to my IPS, and watch some goddamn netflix.
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Aug 13, 2015 05:19
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That's why I'd never buy open box hardware. I'll buy used without a warranty for non-critical/older stuff but if you're getting something like a GPU or PSU it's always a good idea to go with new parts or at least have a transferrable warranty. Not worth saving a couple bucks since it can bite you later. My review-sample SS-XM2 PSU is the only exception I've made to that but it was never opened so the warranty is probably valid, although I'd expect it to easily last 7-8 years given how overkill it is for my system. Was the swapped PSU older or low-wattage? Maybe it can't handle the 290 whereas the regular PSU was just hitting its age limits? future ghost fucked around with this message at 23:54 on Aug 13, 2015 |
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Aug 13, 2015 08:08
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Older PSU was 750W, new one is 650. Two fairly high wattage power supplies not even booting up the card suggests to me at least that it's the card.
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Aug 13, 2015 08:45
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cisco privilege posted:That's why I'd never buy open box hardware. I'll buy used without a warranty for non-critical/older stuff but if you're getting something like a GPU or PSU it's always a good idea to go with new parts or at least have a transferrable warranty. Not worth saving a couple bucks since it can bite you later. My review-sample XMS2 PSU is the only exception I've made to that but it was never opened so the warranty is probably valid, although I'd expect it to easily last 7-8 years given how overkill it is for my system. I always thought it was strange that random used cards sold on a street corner could have the full warranty "transferred" (mostly its just not tracked, which is even more lax) but as soon as one gets returned from manufacturer to a retailer the warranty drops to 90 days or whatever.
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Aug 13, 2015 14:44
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Yay, new windows 10 nvidia drivers to fix BF4 crashes.
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Aug 13, 2015 15:11
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Do most people just use the default Nvidia drivers or should I be using the drivers EVGA has? For a 980 Ti Classified if it matters.
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Aug 13, 2015 20:27
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If they differ I'd be surprised, but would also want the NVIDIA ones if so.
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Aug 13, 2015 20:32
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Use the nvidia drivers downloaded from the website. The ones on the disc are typically outdated. I'm pretty sure there aren't manufacturer branded drivers out there, at least not that I've come across.
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Aug 13, 2015 20:32
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Kazinsal posted:Older PSU was 750W, new one is 650. Two fairly high wattage power supplies not even booting up the card suggests to me at least that it's the card.
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Aug 13, 2015 20:48
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Anti-Hero posted:Use the nvidia drivers downloaded from the website. The ones on the disc are typically outdated. I'm pretty sure there aren't manufacturer branded drivers out there, at least not that I've come across. I guess there are or used to be for mobile SKUs.
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Aug 13, 2015 20:50
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Kazinsal posted:Not transferable on open box hardware. Stupid loving decision on my part. Totally hosed myself. I would still send XFX an email. You might be surprised. If you are on [H] there is an XFX rep that lurks in the video card forums and is usually pretty responsive. If you need I can look up his handle.
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Aug 13, 2015 20:57
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XFX is surprisingly okay about returns, but my experience was back in 2010 with a 5770, and five years is plenty of time to run poo poo into the ground.
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Aug 14, 2015 00:18
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So, finally finished The Witcher 1. Super awesome bonus, I was able to import my save into Witcher 2 and start out fairly geared up. That being said, SLI 980 Ti isn't enough to get 60 fps locked at "ultra" settings and 7880x1440. I had to turn off whatever the hell "UberSampling" is. It's the only one in red, so I figured it was the most important. Sure does look pretty though.
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Aug 14, 2015 00:51
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veedubfreak posted:So, finally finished The Witcher 1. Super awesome bonus, I was able to import my save into Witcher 2 and start out fairly geared up. Ubersampling is what they call supersampling. I'm not surprised you couldn't get good frames at 15760x2880.
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Aug 14, 2015 00:55
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Witcher 2 is still a great looking game 4 years on.
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Aug 14, 2015 01:19
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veedubfreak posted:So, finally finished The Witcher 1. Super awesome bonus, I was able to import my save into Witcher 2 and start out fairly geared up. It's in red as a warning. It is not a setting of honour. There is no treasure there.
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Aug 14, 2015 03:06
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Subjunctive posted:It's in red as a warning. It is not a setting of honour. There is no treasure there. We considered ourselves to be power users.
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Aug 14, 2015 03:24
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I just had to explain why I was laughing to my wife. She did not find it funny.
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Aug 14, 2015 04:01
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Argh. Laptop overheats and crashes five minutes into any game whatsoever -- even a menu. I guess I'm going to hit up Craigslist and see if I can find a GTX 660 for under a hundred bucks to tide me over until this RMA is dealt with. I'll probably take the CS650M I picked up to test back to the store, bite the restocking fee, and use the refund for the temporary card. I know this really isn't the "right" thread for this, but my story started here, so I might as well continue it here.
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Aug 14, 2015 05:11
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Alpha Man posted:We considered ourselves to be power users. I love you. 
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Aug 14, 2015 05:15
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Kazinsal posted:Argh. Laptop overheats and crashes five minutes into any game whatsoever -- even a menu. I guess I'm going to hit up Craigslist and see if I can find a GTX 660 for under a hundred bucks to tide me over until this RMA is dealt with. I'll probably take the CS650M I picked up to test back to the store, bite the restocking fee, and use the refund for the temporary card. You've ruled out the motherboard and hard drives and everything else?
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The Witcher 2 has a pretty ugly sharpening filter that you can disable in C:\Users\*username*\Documents\Witcher 2\Config\user.ini I think it says "allowsharpen=1" and you turn it to 0. Also turn off the bloom. Also a 750W Psu is enough for a 970 and a 660ti (to be used as a PhyX card), right?
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Aug 14, 2015 06:13
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Bleh Maestro posted:You've ruled out the motherboard and hard drives and everything else? Any other card I put in boots fine, and without a card it POSTs with a series of beeps that means "I need a video card, rear end in a top hat", so yeah. With the 290 in, it doesn't even get text or a BIOS splash screen on the display. Won't even throw up a "you forgot something" message if I plug it in without PCIe power cables like my friend's GTX 660 does. Kazinsal fucked around with this message at 06:24 on Aug 14, 2015 |
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Aug 14, 2015 06:22
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Kazinsal posted:Argh. Laptop overheats and crashes five minutes into any game whatsoever -- even a menu. I guess I'm going to hit up Craigslist and see if I can find a GTX 660 for under a hundred bucks to tide me over until this RMA is dealt with. I'll probably take the CS650M I picked up to test back to the store, bite the restocking fee, and use the refund for the temporary card. I've got am EVGA GTX760 I'm trying to get rid of.
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I've gotten a few card-related offers, and I really appreciate them, thank you, goons. I'm afraid I must decline them, though, as I am incredibly strapped for cash, and I've found a friend willing to loan me a GTX 660 until my RMA comes through. You guys rock 
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Every time I launch a game I get a BSOD saying my nvlddmkm.sys is not responding. I've tried everything I can think of and google on, and nothing seems to work: driver wipe / fresh install, expanding the old .sys file as a backup, using default windows drivers. I think my video card got cucked. Anyone else ever seen this and recovered from it?
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Aug 14, 2015 16:52
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Mutation posted:The Witcher 2 has a pretty ugly sharpening filter that you can disable in C:\Users\*username*\Documents\Witcher 2\Config\user.ini I think it says "allowsharpen=1" and you turn it to 0. Good to know, I was wondering why it had some funky jaggeds with everything maxxed. Also, good to know that the red video setting doubles my resolution, that might explain why it don't work. My only complaint so far is that you have to save and exit the game to change keybindings and graphics settings.
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Aug 14, 2015 16:59
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Mutation posted:The Witcher 2 has a pretty ugly sharpening filter that you can disable in C:\Users\*username*\Documents\Witcher 2\Config\user.ini I think it says "allowsharpen=1" and you turn it to 0. Yes, easily, although im not sure about the performance gains there
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Aug 14, 2015 18:14
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Kazinsal posted:I've gotten a few card-related offers, and I really appreciate them, thank you, goons. I'm afraid I must decline them, though, as I am incredibly strapped for cash, and I've found a friend willing to loan me a GTX 660 until my RMA comes through. So XFX is cool with replacing the 290? Good news man.
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Aug 14, 2015 19:00
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FaustianQ posted:So XFX is cool with replacing the 290? Good news man. I don't see why not. For the longest time, XFX have offered a double-lifetime warranty, as in, transferable once. When Red and Green were more comparable, that was the deciding factor in going Red a couple of times.
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FaustianQ posted:So XFX is cool with replacing the 290? Good news man. The rep I talked to gave the option of an RMA so hopefully I'll get the care shipped out within a couple days and get it back in a few weeks. Border crossings allowing, of course. 
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They also were (and hopefully still are) cool with taking off the cooler and fitting your own, as long as you put the original cooler back on when you sent it in.
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Don Lapre posted:Yay, new windows 10 nvidia drivers to fix BF4 crashes. not for me, but that is probablky just my system overall. I'm trying to return both of my b stock gtx 980 to evga because my system is horribly unstable with them. With the newest drivers i get a boot loop every minute after i log in, and before that bf4 would crash with a bullshit DX out of memory error (gotta have at least 512MB you know). What I'm trying to say is that I can't use 2 cards with SLI on or off and I'm upset.
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