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System spontaneously rebooted while watching the Dota 2 Boston Majors, video was dead. Traced down the smell to the GPU. After intense googling the blowing R33's appears to have been a known issue. Had I known I would have taken the block off just to add a thermal pad to these things. It isn't any wonder they cook off when surrounded by a big metal waterblock without any sort of cooling. Does anyone know of soldering and circuit checking services? The card appears to only need two R33 inductors but I'm definitely not an electrician, nor do I have the soldering tools for this. I don't supposed EVGA offers a pay-for GPU repair service? 
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Re: Titan Black Hydro Blown R33 Inductor
2016/12/07 13:59:39
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Hm, second image says it attaches/uploads but it actually doesn't even after multiple attempts.
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Re: Titan Black Hydro Blown R33 Inductor
2016/12/07 14:00:14
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Do you not have a 5 year warranty on that bad boy.
Yea they have image issues here on the Forum. If you click your fist post image they both show.
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Re: Titan Black Hydro Blown R33 Inductor
2016/12/07 14:02:30
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Nope, it came with a 1 year warranty. I can't complain as I won the card, but for just two inductors it's definitely worth getting repaired just to make the attempt. I refreshed multiple times, it isn't showing for me but whatever. Maybe the filesize is too large for this 8800GTS 320MB. 
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Re: Titan Black Hydro Blown R33 Inductor
2016/12/07 14:07:28
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Bummer, If an EVGA card I wonder if EVGA has a repair process for it. I have 3 Org Titans with the same Waterblocks installed, oh wait only two now. I wonder if I should take a look at mine our is this an issues only on the Black Titans. Not looking good. 
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Re: Titan Black Hydro Blown R33 Inductor
2016/12/07 14:10:38
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It isn't, google first pointed me square at a thread in these forums about a 980 Ti blowing its R33 inductor. So it is a little depressing that these things aren't getting proper cooling. That's half the reason I swear by watercooling is to keep the component temps down. And yes, I'm hoping EVGA offers a repair service. Gigabyte used to do something similar for their motherboards as long as it didn't involve the CPU socket which I thought was pretty neat.
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Re: Titan Black Hydro Blown R33 Inductor
2016/12/07 14:53:08
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Local PC shop has a soldering tech that'll do it, now to just find the chips... 
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Re: Titan Black Hydro Blown R33 Inductor
2016/12/07 14:55:48
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Pretty sure evga could repair it for a fee as long as the card is an evga card. Call and ask.
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Re: Titan Black Hydro Blown R33 Inductor
2016/12/07 15:52:21
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Thanks for the advice. May do that just to figure out the rating on these chips. The only shop in town that carries this sort of stuff told me R33s have multiple ratings and even variable/adjustable models.  Over 1K hits for fixed R33 inductors on http://www.digikey.com/  Anyone know what (or where to find) the ratings on the R33 chips NVIDIA uses?
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Re: Titan Black Hydro Blown R33 Inductor
2016/12/08 14:58:56
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Local shop doesn't carry SMDs. Interestingly EVGA offers a paid-for repair service so I went that route, will keep fingers crossed. Got some comments elsewhere so worth mentioning when I first received the card I overclocked initially to see what it could do, but quickly put back to stock for F@H stability reasons and had been fully stock with 24/7 folding use since.
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Re: Titan Black Hydro Blown R33 Inductor
2016/12/08 15:55:31
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I did the same for a CPU Socket fix, cost was less than $90
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Re: Titan Black Hydro Blown R33 Inductor
2016/12/15 21:39:36
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I don't want to be impatient, but does anyone know how long is normal for EVGA to get back to you about the repairability and cost estimate of sent-in GPUs?
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Re: Titan Black Hydro Blown R33 Inductor
2016/12/17 11:10:54
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I hope your card will be repaired, that's great card and best model.
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Re: Titan Black Hydro Blown R33 Inductor
2016/12/17 16:46:19
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Thanks! I hope so as well as I skipped EVGA's deal on the 980 Ti  Been holding out for the 1180 or ideally an 1180 Ti, but if it's irreparable then I'll have to "settle" for a 1080 Ti. A 1080 is no slouch but at the rate F@H PPD goes up with every generation I'm crazy eager to see what the 1180 can do with Folding, especially with HBM2 to keep fast access to the data.
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Re: Titan Black Hydro Blown R33 Inductor
2016/12/18 07:01:00
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I don't know I like more and more EVGA Founders Edition.
And after month I will remove cooler, clean with Arctic Cleaning and than install paste MX-4 and EVGA Hybrid.
I don't know why I saddenly want to try reference, I didn't had no one of reference NVIDIA models with silver shroud
GTX780-GTX780Ti-TITAN-TITAN Black-GTX980-GTX980Ti-GTX1080-TITAN Pascal... nothing. But people say they are cool and nice.
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Re: Titan Black Hydro Blown R33 Inductor
2016/12/21 17:15:17
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To my surprise EVGA called about the card today, had thought they were off already for the holidays far as repair work goes. The tech indicated while they replaced the inductor and some other bits, the memory chipset was damaged so the card is hosed. People smarter than I indicated it was likely the inductor probably voltage spiked the VRAM just before it launched itself off the card, so it wasn't completely unexpected news.  Got two years out of a Titan Black Hydro, got nearly 7 years (and still going) out of a GTX 480 Hydro. It's funny how that works. Of course the 480 would be the one still under warranty...
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