neilpratten
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Hi
had my first outing with trying to overclock a GTX690 yesterday, and now have a dead card. i would'nt have expected to be able to damage the card by using precision X but then i dont know that much about it? I never raised the card voltage at all, and the card never exceeded 51C during testing.
any opinions welcome?
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Re:Is it possible to destroy a card with Precision X
2012/08/26 02:44:47
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Yes you can, what did you do?
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Re:Is it possible to destroy a card with Precision X
2012/08/26 03:30:54
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If you are absolutely sure the card is dead go ahead and apply for an RMA since you did not overvolt the card.
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Re:Is it possible to destroy a card with Precision X
2012/08/26 09:07:41
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You can't overvolt in Precision X, so I don't think it's possible.
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Re:Is it possible to destroy a card with Precision X
2012/08/26 09:27:31
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I take you've reinstalled drivers?
I did this to my 680 and it locked up,
its fine now after a clean driver install
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Re:Is it possible to destroy a card with Precision X
2012/08/26 09:42:15
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Glad I found this post, I Just started experimenting with overclocking of my new 680 card. I got it Thursday and gaming on it on stock and now decided to play with overclocking. Was able to OC my card without any issue.
According to what you did I don't think you kill the card because you try to oc. What was the offset of the GPU and RAM? You should have start little at a time. Did it die on you while running the stress test ?
You should have read first how the Kepler GPU operates and know how it works, it's easy and there are many articles online explaining on how to.
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Re:Is it possible to destroy a card with Precision X
2012/08/26 09:58:24
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Very unlikely to actually damage a card, but it is possible.
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Re:Is it possible to destroy a card with Precision X
2014/05/22 11:04:23
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I just lost two gtx 680ftw+ because of precision x after installing liquid cooling. Don't know why it fried both cards but now I have artifacts in POST and windows is unusable.
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Re:Is it possible to destroy a card with Precision X
2014/05/22 13:42:34
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No. Your problem is most likely due to installing the liquid cooling coolers incorrectly.
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Re:Is it possible to destroy a card with Precision X
2014/05/22 16:19:31
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How do you think that would happen? If anything I over-did the voltages thinking that the extra heat wouldn't be a problem because of the liquid cooling. The water blocks are from EK and they were made specifically to be full coverage for this exact card. I didn't crunch anything when I installed them and I followed the directions exactly, replacing the thermal paste and thermal pads with the new water block. The only thing I noticed was that there were some components that had thermal tape in the stock cooler but weren't covered by the water blocks.
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Re:Is it possible to destroy a card with Precision X
2014/05/22 16:42:11
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If you managed to get some thermal paste on the card (e.g. applying too much on the GPU or some dripped elsewhere), that can cause artifacting. Depending on how you tighten the blocks down, and how much you tighten it, it's possible to warp the board, also causing artifacting and other problems.
Alternatively, if some water got on the card while leak testing or filling, that can cause artifacting, as well.
Generally, changing the power target of the card won't hurt the card, as the power target is more of an on-demand type voltage, rather than a direct increase to the card. It is still possible to damage the card if you try to set your gpu or memory offset too high.
As Sajin mentioned, however, check the installation of the blocks first. If you put your stock heatsinks back on the cards and the artifacting disappears, then it's likely something to do with installing the water blocks.
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Re:Is it possible to destroy a card with Precision X
2014/05/22 18:34:32
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Talked to EVGA support today and one is going through for standard RMA and the other as a guest RMA. I hope they send back the same version cards so the water blocks aren't a waste. Guess I'll have to be extra careful with fluids next time.
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Re:Is it possible to destroy a card with Precision X
2014/05/23 00:03:00
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snow_lightning
Talked to EVGA support today and one is going through for standard RMA and the other as a guest RMA. I hope they send back the same version cards so the water blocks aren't a waste. Guess I'll have to be extra careful with fluids next time.
Always check your temps on a recurring basis with water cooling
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Re:Is it possible to destroy a card with Precision X
2014/08/01 13:38:16
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NordicJedi
If you managed to get some thermal paste on the card (e.g. applying too much on the GPU or some dripped elsewhere), that can cause artifacting. Depending on how you tighten the blocks down, and how much you tighten it, it's possible to warp the board, also causing artifacting and other problems.
Alternatively, if some water got on the card while leak testing or filling, that can cause artifacting, as well.
Generally, changing the power target of the card won't hurt the card, as the power target is more of an on-demand type voltage, rather than a direct increase to the card. It is still possible to damage the card if you try to set your gpu or memory offset too high.
As Sajin mentioned, however, check the installation of the blocks first. If you put your stock heatsinks back on the cards and the artifacting disappears, then it's likely something to do with installing the water blocks.
You're right. After disassembling the waterblocks on the cards I found water from a leak that happened the day before. I hadn't let the system dry long enough, but more than that I should've disassembled the blocks to let them dry fully to begin with rather than just blow drying with canned air and waiting 8hrs. The RMA process returned two GTX 770s with 4GB ram each, that don't have a full coverage water block available now so my venture into liquid cooling has ended with just the cpu being cooled by my EK block.
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Re:Is it possible to destroy a card with Precision X
2014/08/01 19:20:30
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Water damage voids the warranty. You are lucky that EVGA replaced your cards at all. Be more careful.
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