- Oct 29, 2013
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Ok, thanks for coming and reading this. I will try to describe the problem as short as possible. I have 3 R9 280x cards, one of them is having the overheating problem. At first I thought that it could be cooling problem, but it wasn't, cuz simply the heatsink was as hot like hell as the GPU. So far I have tried:
1. Carefully cleaning and replacing the thermal paste, no help.
2. Replacing heatsink with awfully strong fans, no help.
3. Putting on another PCI-E slot and even another motherboard, no help.
Overheating behavior (all degrees numbers are in Celcius):
1. If I put it in a case, it gets to 90 degrees easily after 5 mins into an intense load game (like GTA and stuffs).
2. If I put it on a bench table, yes it still gets to 90, but after like 10 mins.
3. If ran a mining operation (for crypto currencies and stuffs), it gets to 94 within 3 mins.
Which means the problem clearly lies in the GPU, as my other 2 cards are completely fine under any regular circumstances (even inside a PC case of course). I used GPU-Z on them and found out some symptoms that you guys might find useful:
1. The VDDC Current of the overheated card is always like 20A higher than the others under load (which is around 150 vs 130).
2. The 12V line of the hot card is always a bit higher than the others, like 12.1 to 12.3 vs 11.8 to 11.9.
Is there anything I could do to help my card get well? Or the only option is to RMA? Cuz the warranty service where I live is just horrible, they will either give u another bad card or just suck it for at least 2 months before giving you back something that you can actually use. So any advice without RMA-ing it would be awesome as I'm a lil bit desperate here...
And yes, all of my cards share the same Corsair 1200W PSU single rail, which is much more than needed, so we can eliminate psu problems.
Sorry for troubling you and any help would be much appreciated...
1. Carefully cleaning and replacing the thermal paste, no help.
2. Replacing heatsink with awfully strong fans, no help.
3. Putting on another PCI-E slot and even another motherboard, no help.
Overheating behavior (all degrees numbers are in Celcius):
1. If I put it in a case, it gets to 90 degrees easily after 5 mins into an intense load game (like GTA and stuffs).
2. If I put it on a bench table, yes it still gets to 90, but after like 10 mins.
3. If ran a mining operation (for crypto currencies and stuffs), it gets to 94 within 3 mins.
Which means the problem clearly lies in the GPU, as my other 2 cards are completely fine under any regular circumstances (even inside a PC case of course). I used GPU-Z on them and found out some symptoms that you guys might find useful:
1. The VDDC Current of the overheated card is always like 20A higher than the others under load (which is around 150 vs 130).
2. The 12V line of the hot card is always a bit higher than the others, like 12.1 to 12.3 vs 11.8 to 11.9.
Is there anything I could do to help my card get well? Or the only option is to RMA? Cuz the warranty service where I live is just horrible, they will either give u another bad card or just suck it for at least 2 months before giving you back something that you can actually use. So any advice without RMA-ing it would be awesome as I'm a lil bit desperate here...
And yes, all of my cards share the same Corsair 1200W PSU single rail, which is much more than needed, so we can eliminate psu problems.
Sorry for troubling you and any help would be much appreciated...
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