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SquareCarousel

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About SquareCarousel

  • Birthday Jan 31, 1997

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    Hysterical

Profile Information

  • Gender
    Male
  • Location
    NEW ZEALAND
  • Interests
    Jamming some guitar, and finding good music. Tinkering with computers and all things electronic, usually with some buddies.
  • Occupation
    Student, part time pizza delivery boy

System

  • CPU
    AMD Fx 6300
  • Motherboard
    Gigabyte 970A-D3P
  • RAM
    16GB Adata 1600Mhz
  • GPU
    Sapphire R9 380 Nitro
  • Case
    NZXT S340
  • Storage
    128GB Adata SSD / 2TB WD Blue
  • PSU
    Enermax 650W
  • Display(s)
    Samsung Syncmaster
  • Cooling
    Kraken x31, Noctua low RPM fans
  • Keyboard
    Corsair Strafe RGB w/ MX Silent
  • Mouse
    Mionix Castor
  • Sound
    Asus Xonar DGX
  • Operating System
    Windows 10 x64

SquareCarousel's Achievements

  1. Hi, I'm a little peeved that Apple will not let me play content I have purchased outside of their proprietary player. I have a Macbook, but my desktop is Windows. Does anyone know how to convert Apple's protected .m4v files into something that can play on VLC or a similar video player? Cheers
  2. Can you make a video with the sound? I'm a silent freak too, and now that the rest of my system is nearly silent, my hard drive bugs the hell out of me.
  3. We can make it boot consistently, with the fans staying at normal levels, but if we try and do a stress test, or something demanding then the temperature shoots up and then it crashes.
  4. Hi! My friend recently bought a gtx 670 (used). When he first used it in his system the fans blasted at 100% immediately upon switching on the system and it would not post. We have since narrowed down the issue to heat, and we can successfully boot and keep the system running indefinitely, as long as we don't put a load on the gpu (3D games, stress testing, etc.). However, as soon as we try any gpu-heavy task, the temperature shoots up and the system crashes. We have tried reapplying thermal paste, using lots, using just a little, and everywhere in between. We have a had success in using thermal pads as well. The card seems to run well, and sits at 45-50C at idle. The card is a Gigabyte Windforce 3x gtx 670. The fans all seem to spin fine, but even when the card is super hot the air it exhausts is cold, which leaves us thinking that the heat isn't being conducted into heatsink very well, or at all. We have been trying to get this card working for a week or two now, and have eliminated almost every other possibility. We tried different PSUs, different outputs, tried the card in multiple systems, reinstalling drivers, and removing OC programs that could have caused issues. We're confident the issue is either the card, or the heatsink. Is this something that could be fixed with a new VGA cooler, if we can even find one in NZ? Album of photos of the pcb and heatsink: http://imgur.com/gallery/ZmU0a Thanks!
  5. That's what we're trying right now. We'll know in like 5 minutes if that's the problem.
  6. I you nailed it with the first idea. The pads look ratty as hell. We're going to have a go replacing them and see if it fixes it.
  7. Well it posts fine when the heatsink isn't attached. I think maybe the pads are worn through in some spots and it's enough to cause problems.
  8. I don't know what's going on with the links. They work until I post them, and then when I click them from my post they are dead.
  9. http://i.imgur.com/9m9o8um.jpg http://i.imgur.com/MXRIHGu.jpg http://i.imgur.com/gbEiBWA.jpg Here sorry!
  10. We didn't touch the tape. We are going to find some replacement pads tomorrow. That sounds like it could be the issue.
  11. http://imgur.com/gallery/ZmU0a/ Here is an album of the PCB as it is at the moment. The few times I powered on the card without the heatsink I powered it off as soon as I could see that it was posting.
  12. Hmm. When we removed the heatsink initially, the paste was all over the chip and the pcb. I applied only on the chip, and cleaned what I could from the pcb.
  13. EDIT: After Failblox' suggestion, we examing the pads around the heatsink, and they have degraded and have worn through at certain points. We will try replacing them, and update soon. Thanks for all the replies Hi, My friend and I have been struggling with a gtx 670 he bought recently, and have finally had a break. Until today the card had only posted 3 times during our testing. We have used different power supplies, different video outputs, tried the card in several different systems, changed RAM positions, tried several PCI-E slots, etc etc. Nothing would make the card post consistently. As soon as the system was powered on the gpu fans would blast at 100% and it would not post. Today, we reapplied thermal paste, and tried again. Nothing. However, after removing the heatsink entirely, and powering on the system, it posted before turning itself off because of the temperature. It posted every time we tried without the heatsink attached. And when I connected the fan header to the gpu the heatsink fans spun normally, and didn't blast at full straight away. So, our conclusion is that the heatsink itself is causing some issues. Is there an easy fix for this? Has anyone had experience with heatsinks causing issues with gpus? Thanks y'all <3 Edit: Album of photos of the pcb and heatsink: http://imgur.com/gallery/ZmU0a
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