RMA question (what should i do)

Daniel Stavro

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I'm just curious what are symptoms worthy of an RMA.

My gtx 680 after stress testing shutdown my computer and upon rebooting to windows, my 680 did not load or was not found in afterburner and my entire desktop was full of artifacts (small little red squares). I waited a few minutes, rebooted again and the computer found the 680.

I've already had a game crash on me twice however I'm not sure if its nvidias latest driver that is causing this as some people are reporting this online. Furmark tests indicate my card reaching 80C on stock speed and then crashing to windows roughly 10-15% into the test.

should i continue to see if this problem persists or is this worthy of an RMA submission to EVGA?
 


Sounds to me like your 680 is borked, but just to be sure please provide a full system spec, especially the make and model of your motherboard. I've seen similar symptoms before, ended up being a cheap shit PCIe lane splitter.
 


"I know it's fine" is the last thing that you should be telling someone that you're requesting help from. Please provide us with the exact make and model of every component in your system (leave out obvious stuff like the fans though)
 


I don't see any lemons in there. If you still have the 580, swap it in and test it out for good measure. If the 580 works fine, RMA that 680
 

Daniel Stavro

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I wish i could swap my old card back in but its sold :(. I'm very curious though with the other 600 series cards. Do you believe that this is solely a driver related issue. PS the card is now running again (strange) and i ran it through MSI kombustor a couple times and it completed them all without fail. I havent played any games tonite, but I'm expecting it to crash at least once or twice as it usually does. The weird thing is also that PAYDAY 2 really isnt a graphic intensive game and the fact that its crashing my gpu alarms me.