My vcore is so high, its at like 1.5750

xxrabid93

walleye, power supply dying maybe?

Have not checked that PSU as it was only a back up and was using only on the one 480 in question.
But I have since ordered a Antec TQP 1200, Because I did have to use a second psu for only 2x480's.
It makes more sense to me that the "pops" were from psu and not 480. But on visual inspection nothing looked bad or burnt.
But I also have not hooked that psu up to anything either for fear of frying something.
Going to check out puts later this week.

My vcore is so high, its at like 1.5750  for what kinda OC and what are temps.

awalleyeguy

xxrabid93

walleye, power supply dying maybe?

Have not checked that PSU as it was only a back up and was using only on the one 480 in question.
But I have since ordered a Antec TQP 1200, Because I did have to use a second psu for only 2x480's.
It makes more sense to me that the "pops" were from psu and not 480. But on visual inspection nothing looked bad or burnt.
But I also have not hooked that psu up to anything either for fear of frying something.
Going to check out puts later this week.

Interesting. What PSU is it? Did you smell the PSU? Also, did you just look through a fan hole on the PSU to see if it was burnt?
 
You could put the psu hooked up to just a few things (to keep it from burning out from no load), jump it, and see if it starts smelling like it is burning. Maybe just hook it up to some fans for the load, so if it does burn up, it would olny take a few fans with it instead of a mobo or gpu. Just an idea...

I broke everything down the other day and found a little rust. Just like you, John...I guess I'll experiment more with insulation. Good thing for plasti-dip!





So then, tonight, I put one of my 295's back on air. I was thinking of rma'ing this card since I still have some output quality issues. I spoke about it before and thought it was the sli bridge, but no, it still has low resolution "look" to it.  Not the low res of a performance vantage run, but a little worse than that when running vantage.  the color is not fully saturated.  It happens only in 3d applications.  Desktop is fine.  I don't really know how to explain it...maybe I'll take a pic later.




So I benched it a little, and on air, it still beats iride's best single GTX 480 on water with heavy overclocks. (He currently has the best 480 single card run, followed closely by awalleye)



It's a killer bench card, but if I ever sold it, I'm not sure gamers would like the screen quality. Evga said they could get me a dualie replacement, but it would take 2-3 weeks. I don't care about the down time.
What do you guys think...rma it, or keep it.

damn...i think i may plastic dip the front of my board tonight.

oh yeah....that rust is hella crazy.....im thinking it means the eraser is not fully sticking to the bracket and air is getting in...speculation of course.



also...i bought me a laptop...nothing fancy though...just needed something better than my old nc8430

Q:
do an advanced rma...that way you keep your card till the new one arrives.

wow, i definitely have to break down my rig that still has eraser on it. I hope the rust isn't bad for me (hopefully there is none of it). That would suck if rust KO'd a board...

its not like permanent rust...it's cleanable...but rust all the same.

these 470 sure are fun to play around with had a run finish yesterday at 860/920 with physx, my water blocks are here but i am too lazy to put them on yet. ans sorry johnksss i knocked you down a spot on hwbot
http://hwbot.org/communit...ce_gtx_470_19903_marks

that's great news!!...im going to have this card long enough till they get the 480's in,...then 

it's history.

best make them count now...tomorrow ill put the pedal to the medal on this card.

johnksss

yep!

but if you put your ear on the hose...you should be able to hear it.


side note
johnksss ---------------- i7 920@ 4.650-------(1) 470  800/1000/1600 ------17833 ---- 70068 ---- P21918 ---- Stock

check me out...made the 70k cpu score club...woohooo

Man, that card ATE the phys X test for breakfast