Connection?

[don_svetlio]

 So earlier I posted a thread asking about the artifacts I get in some games on my 280 - namely Chivalry where they are the most - I was talking about it with a friend when he told me that at some point a PSU had killed several HDDs by supplying them with higher voltage - slowly burning them - I've noted several spikes via GPU-Z where it would read 1.4V on the GPU core - I am not really ready to believe it since voltage measurements by software are very inaccurate but could my PSU actually be spiking voltage and thus damaging the GPU? I mean, when I bought I was assured it's among the best and the general consensus is similar as SeaSonic products very rarely fail so spectacularly - Is it just the card dying/bad memory chip somewhere or is the PSU connected somehow?

[OAcesync]

 So earlier I posted a thread asking about the artifacts I get in some games on my 280 - namely Chivalry where they are the most - I was talking about it with a friend when he told me that at some point a PSU had killed several HDDs by supplying them with higher voltage - slowly burning them - I've noted several spikes via GPU-Z where it would read 1.4V on the GPU core - I am not really ready to believe it since voltage measurements by software are very inaccurate but could my PSU actually be spiking voltage and thus damaging the GPU? I mean, when I bought I was assured it's among the best and the general consensus is similar as SeaSonic products very rarely fail so spectacularly - Is it just the card dying/bad memory chip somewhere or is the PSU connected somehow?

If the voltage went up like that you would definitely notice a temperature spike do you notice any temperature spikes when gaming?

[don_svetlio]

If the voltage went up like that you would definitely notice a temperature spike do you notice any temperature spikes when gaming?

Not really - nothing unusual - chivalry puts aroun 50% load and core is @ 63*C and VRM1 @ 61*C max

[OAcesync]

Not really - nothing unusual - chivalry puts aroun 50% load and core is @ 63*C and VRM1 @ 61*C max

I would try some more softwares like ASUS GPU Tweak or MSI AB because I doubt it's correct voltage readings as if you to manually increase GPU or CPU voltage you would definitely see the temperatures increase from normal although the spikes only happen for like a couple seconds then the temps may not increase

[don_svetlio]

I would try some more softwares like ASUS GPU Tweak or MSI AB because I doubt it's correct voltage readings as if you to manually increase GPU or CPU voltage you would definitely see the temperatures increase from normal

I just hope that if it indeed is the case it's the GPU VRMs that are broken, not the PSU - I cannot afford a new GPU, let alone a new PSU.