Install a good fan speed & temp monitoring app like GPU-Z & see what's really going
on then hit it with futuremark to stress it.
Dunno about 4xxx series but the 3xxx's had a lot of fan control issues. If all they
did was replace the fan and did not stress-test the card with futuremark for an
extended period you could very well have a heat-stroked card. If that's the case you
need to scream loudly until they replace it, otherwise only option is do a "buy &
swap" returning the damaged card in place of the new one to let the vendor & asus
work it out. ;)
Winterlight wrote:
I have two ASUS EAH4870 video cards installed. One I bought last
December, and one in September. The December one's fan went out at the
beginning of this month. One day I sat down to my computer, and it had
turned it self off overnight. Every time I turned it on it would work
for a while and then shut down.
Eventually, I figured out that the video cards fan wasn't always
working, and when it went off it would get hot and the motherboard would
shut the PC down.
I RMA'd it .
The card came back yesterday, I installed it, things worked fine until a
few hours ago at which time my PC turned off. Once again the fan was off
and would not turn on after powering off and on. I called Asus and once
again I am RMAing it. <sigh> Could it possibly be anything else that is
causing this? I asked them if they could just send me a new fan to
install but no.. I have to spend another 10-15 bucks sending it back to
them.
I am beginning to think I should put my own fan on it, even if it would
void the warranty, but where would I find something like that? They must
be highly engineered.
I feel like I am screwed here, and am going to go another two plus weeks
with out my other monitors just because some guy didn't replace the fan
the first time.
