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Oh where do I start. I think the first video I saw was Linus trying to get 24GB of ram to work on a 1366 board. Back then the only tech youtuber I watched at all was Tiny Tom Logan and all the crazy stuff he does. When I first saw Linus honestly I didn't watch much at first because I thought his voice sounded funny, (Oh, didn't see you standing there... Hi Linus ), but I don't have much room to speak because my recorded voice sounds like a mix between Mandark of Dexters lab and John Carmack of ID fame. Moving on, with time I came to discover the live streams. These grew on me quick and since the first I saw back around February 2013, at the latest pre-titan release, I have seen every live stream and every wan show. I loved hearing commentary on the news I did catch and hearing about the news that I missed during the week. With time the whole channel grew on me as I became more and more interested as youtube and various tech channels therein became an increasingly larger part of my free time. Since I have had pockets of time to take part in the forum which is great. Unfortunately I don't have time to do much if anything since anything I can call free time is now devoted to building a career in web development while earning a living for a wife and kid. I can say that this place is both a great place to get help and to feel useful with all the little skills one acquires following this field. Linus and other youtubers have also been a strong influence on my belief in myself and my goals. My life isn't where I want it to be yet, but even if it never is I see others who have found success before me and know that I only lose if I quit. Thanks Linus and crew for the inspiration, entertainment, motivation, and news. Good luck and I hope to continue watching for a good time yet.

That was my second thought but this use case was at high risk of overheating. If it is not the vrm then what? Maybe I'll try mounting the cooler again just to see if that was the problem. I also did notice since yesterday that there is some new scarring on the copper plate of the cooler. I don't see any visible damage on the die, is it possible I've damaged the core beyond use without visible damage?

Alright, though apparently I was mistaken and it was capacitors that were leaking.

I managed to get all the numbers off. The small caps have: 6811 88LW 1236 The big caps: 6894 AM82 1232 And the mosfet says: GS7805D F2WBH Not sure if or when I'll attempt a repair. But it would be an excuse to play with a soldering iron.

Photo is highlighted now. I was somehow led to believe that fets were under the vrm heatsink, probably wrong though. Caps make a lot more sense. I was actually looking at the larger caps in the area to see if any of them had leaked but didn't find anything. If it is indeed leaky caps and a snapped mosfet leg then I my guess is the leg got snapped somehow and the electrical issues caused when the card went under load wreaked havoc on those surface mount caps. Meaning that if the card is salvageable then it would need a new mosfet and caps, assuming that is all the damage. If I could of caught the fet earlier I could have soldered a jumper wire in there. Oh well. Edit: Just looked up mosfets to figure more out and came across this little article: http://www.techpowerup.com/articles/overclocking/voltmods/21 If we are talking about the same thing then it looks fine to me. *shrug*

Thermal tape Sorry, I lost some text when I accidentally pressed the back button. It looks to me like the mosfets leaked something, but I've never heard of this happening before. Though as explained I am not sure if this is entirely the demise of this card.

To begin with I am considering my PGU dead. As background This GPU is a AMD 7870 XT that has lived a hard life. Along with gaming on it I mined on it from early December to late March. Along with that I did have an AIO cooler cable tied to my GPU die. I do have heatsinks on the ram but I have been depending on incidental airflow from the case for cooling the board, couple with the coin mining this probably has a very large share in my symptoms. The story leading to today's symptoms started a week ago. I swapped power supplies in my machine, in the process I needed to remove my GPU and the attached radiator. This caused the pump/cold-plate to move and may have disturbed the thermal paste. After the PSU swap was done the GPU couldn't keep cool. Simple enough, just re-mount the cooler. I get some more cable ties and re-paste the thing, the whole process goes perfectly smooth, so much so I wonder what is wrong as I'm hooking the computer back up. Then my trouble begins. First thing after turning my computer on was starting unengine valley to see where my temps were. The benchmark loads up and starts running, then within seconds my screens go black. This behavior continues for anything that stresses the GPU from 3D games to Luxmark, Fez was usually okay unless the framerate jumped above 60, then it artifacted everywhere. 2D games and normal usage were safe until just recently. I was surfing the web when both my screens went nuts with artifacts. Lastly I pulled the GPU assuming the worst and saw this when I pulled the board out (Mosfet heatsink removed for visibility): EDIT: I guess I lost some text before posting, the dark area around the mosfets looks like some liquid leaked out to me.

I like the IPS screen

AMD is weird with temps. Same on my wife's computer with an FX-6100.

I commented on the youtube vid but I'll put this here since the youtube comment will sink into the depths of the internets before we know it. "I've been using ting for my wife an I and it has been amazing. It saves us $50 a month. The only downside is we needed to buy sprint phones to jump aboard, but the plan has long since made up for that investment."

Did you try the digital trips? I'm pretty addicted to Alone right now.

I could share videos all night but here are a few of the most relevant.

I'm just going to put this here.

I've also used piriform recuva with limited success: http://www.piriform.com/recuva Keep in mind that you can't recover anything that is written over and that many SSD's clean themselves up with time. But if you put the time in with the right software I would be surprised if you truly lost everything.

I don't know how to tell for certain but those little packs usually have two AA cells in them which are usually NiMH. But they don't have to be. They wouldn't be lead acid, those are more like motorcycle or car batteries. And Li-ion and Li-ion polymer are expensive, to get two of those in a pack like that would be $15 or up just for the cells. So my guess is NiMH.