Graphics card gone for good?

[Somedude96]

Hey, everyone.

So, I have a dying video card which is an R7 265 Dual X from Sapphire. It has served me for only less than 2 years.

The first thing I noticed was constant stuttering, then freezes then discolored stripes (even in the BIOS). Now, for some reason,

I can't boot to Windows when the driver is installed. (Booted to safe mode to uninstall the driver and I was able to boot to Windows again)

I determined that it was the graphics card's fault when I replaced it with my old one the Geforce 210 which worked.

Now, what I did to "revive" the card was heating it in an oven(I've watched dozens of "Putting your graphics card in an oven" videos including Linus' so I was pretty sure what I was doing).

It worked! Sort of... It died again in 3 days. I did the same thing again and it died again for less than a day.

I've sent the card to a repair shop and they basically did the same thing. It worked aaaaaaaand it died again.

 

WHAT THE F*** SHOULD I DO WITH THIS CARD?! If anyone knows better, please help.

 

PC Specs

CPU: i3 6100 Stock speed

GPU: R7 265 2GB

RAM:4GB

OS: Windows 10 Pro

STORAGE: 1TB Seagate Barracuda

PSU: 450W Thermaltake

[yathis]

How much did you spend on sending it to a repair facility?

Throw the GPU out and buy a new one.

[Sakkura]

It's dead. Baking it can help temporarily but in the long run is just doing more damage to the card.

[GrayTech]

4 minutes ago, Somedude96 said:

Now, what I did to "revive" the card was heating it in an oven(I've watched dozens of "Putting your graphics card in an oven" videos including Linus' so I was pretty sure what I was doing).

Ok! Then you know that you can't use the oven for cooking food again.

[Somedude96]

3 minutes ago, yathis said:

How much did you spend on sending it to a repair facility?

Throw the GPU out and buy a new one.

I talked to them about the card and they didn't charge me.

[Somedude96]

1 minute ago, GrayTech said:

Ok! Then you know that you can't use the oven for cooking food again.

Yeah, I know that.

[Somedude96]

3 minutes ago, Sakkura said:

It's dead. Baking it can help temporarily but in the long run is just doing more damage to the card.

What a shitty card I have.

[comicsansms]

Your card is dead, no amount of baking is going to fix that.

[Somedude96]

Just now, Comic_Sans_MS said:

Your card is dead, no amount of baking is going to fix that.

F*** my life.

[TheRandomness]

32 minutes ago, Somedude96 said:

F*** my life.

Why though? Hardware dies, you can just get a cheap replacement off of eBay or something.

[typographie]

4 hours ago, Somedude96 said:

WHAT THE F*** SHOULD I DO WITH THIS CARD?! If anyone knows better, please help.

If it's less than two years old it's probably still under warranty, and you should've gone to Sapphire support to begin with. You can still try, it costs you nothing to ask. Maybe omit the part where you baked it in an oven.

[Somedude96]

On 7/21/2017 at 10:48 PM, typographie said:

If it's less than two years old it's probably still under warranty, and you should've gone to Sapphire support to begin with. You can still try, it costs you nothing to ask. Maybe omit the part where you baked it in an oven.

Nope. I got only a year of warranty.