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Durosuka

Durosuka

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Good Day all.

Simple question.
My brother bought a new ASUS Radeon R9290. very fancy and all but he has an old M4A Asus motherboard.
Now the graphics card worked fine for a short while but has been slowly melting down and eventually started throwing bluescreens after just 3 days. One interesting error was the display turning into these, "strips of artifacts running on the screen", is the best way I can describe it

We sent the card back to the the guys at rebeltech and they said they'd look into it. We got an email saying that they ran the card through their tests and they found nothing wrong with it.

Any opinions?
 
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When talking about PSU noise in terms of system stability issue, we mean it in the electrical sense: are the power supply's outputs clean and stable? The only definitive way to find out for sure without guessing and doing part-swapping is to measure them with an oscilloscope.
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roopjeet

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Check temperature. If playing games then check that enough watts are given to it from or board. Remove dust from ur case if overheating get some fans to cool it down. If nothing works than its board problem get a new one... But hurry before ur gpu turns trash
 
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Durosuka

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According to the heat monitor provided by the driver itself we never went above 68 degrees so it wasn't too hot.
I'm not sure on the motherboard BIOS through, I don't like updating that since I've had issues in the past.

Now the PSU answer peaked my interest. Can you define "Noisy PSU". Is it literal noise or do you mean like static interference? Its a 750W PSU, old-ish. About a year newer than then motherboard.



 
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What is the brand and model of the power supply?
 
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When talking about PSU noise in terms of system stability issue, we mean it in the electrical sense: are the power supply's outputs clean and stable? The only definitive way to find out for sure without guessing and doing part-swapping is to measure them with an oscilloscope.
 
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Durosuka

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Right I've got the brand and the model.

Its a Raidmax RX-700AC
It was a 700W, not a 750W. My apologies,

As for the oscilloscope. I have an uncle that might be able to loan me one but that might take some time. We're picking up the card from the shop on Friday so if it still gives problems I'll try to swap some parts between my box and my brother's

Thank you all for your help so far. Cya Friday!
 
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Yup, that definitely smells like trouble: Raidmax is one of those many bottom-of-the-barrel brands - those that tend to have very short lives and usually cannot deliver anywhere near their sticker ratings without either failing or going out of spec.
 
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I would replace the power supply, read this and I'd select something from the top 3 tiers or top 2. Raidmax is in the tier 5 which is the "replace immediatly" section hehe http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1804779/power-supply-unit-tier-list.html
 
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Durosuka

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Right, the PC is now sitting at the shop for the weekend. I tried telling my brother about the power supply but he ignored me :/
When the thing comes back I'll swap it for mine and see what happens. For now I'm picking InvalidError's response as the answer
 
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