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Got myself the 980 ti on black friday and it just arrived. i installed it and did all the required tasks. I fired up FurMark and tested it. and ended up with insane temps and graphical glitches.

 

I am running dual monitor, one AOC 1080p display and the XB270HU.

now it is currently slowly rising to about 60 degrees and will probably rise even more just idling. 

 

Since its saturday night, i cant contact the seller or MSI. Any tips from you guys?

 

Also i have tried using Afterburner changing presets and fan speed

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Got myself the 980 ti on black friday and it just arrived. i installed it and did all the required tasks. I fired up FurMark and tested it. and ended up with insane temps and graphical glitches.

 

I am running dual monitor, one AOC 1080p display and the XB270HU.

now it is currently slowly rising to about 60 degrees and will probably rise even more just idling. 

 

Since its saturday night, i cant contact the seller or MSI. Any tips from you guys?

install msi afterburner and set a custom fan curve.

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Got myself the 980 ti on black friday and it just arrived. i installed it and did all the required tasks. I fired up FurMark and tested it. and ended up with insane temps and graphical glitches.

 

I am running dual monitor, one AOC 1080p display and the XB270HU.

now it is currently slowly rising to about 60 degrees and will probably rise even more just idling. 

 

Since its saturday night, i cant contact the seller or MSI. Any tips from you guys?

Force a fan curve in MSI Afterburner?  RMA that card as soon as you can, may have a corrupt BIOS.

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Force a fan curve in MSI Afterburner?  RMA that card as soon as you can, may have a corrupt BIOS.

Tried doing this. nothing happened

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install msi afterburner and set a custom fan curve.

It didnt help. any other tips to get these fans spinning?

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It didnt help. any other tips to get these fans spinning?

Give them a little poke in the right direction when they should be spinning. If they start spinning immediately to what seems like the correct speed then it is a mechanical issue and could potentially be fixed. If they don't start spinning it is either dead fans or BIOS issue, either of which you don't want to deal with and you should just wait to be able to RMA as soon as possible.

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It didnt help. any other tips to get these fans spinning?

Spin it the old fashioned way with your finger trust me r8 8/8

I'm a beast

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Spin it the old fashioned way with your finger trust me r8 8/8

 

 

Give them a little poke in the right direction when they should be spinning. If they start spinning immediately to what seems like the correct speed then it is a mechanical issue and could potentially be fixed. If they don't start spinning it is either dead fans or BIOS issue, either of which you don't want to deal with and you should just wait to be able to RMA as soon as possible.

 

Welp shit. i cant fucking do anything until monday. Jesus christ i hate when this shit happens

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Welp shit. i cant fucking do anything until monday. Jesus christ i hate when this shit happens

I take it they didn't start spinning? lol Yea it is a bummer man, my MSi motherboard died on me a couple months back and I had to wait nearly 2 months for the RMA process through them. AND it cost me $35 in shipping.

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I hope MSI comes through for you. with luck they won't make you pay shipping. If I had to guess, a poor connection was made in the fan motors and they either aren't getting enough curernt or aren't getting any voltage at all.

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I hope MSI comes through for you. with luck they won't make you pay shipping. If I had to guess, a poor connection was made in the fan motors and they either aren't getting enough curernt or aren't getting any voltage at all.

Honestly depending on the retailer that he bought it from he should probably RMA through them first. Neweggs RMA process is a thousand times better than MSi's.

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Honestly depending on the retailer that he bought it from he should probably RMA through them first. Neweggs RMA process is a thousand times better than MSi's.

 

i can just drive up there but it has been closed this weekend. cant go tomorrow either because of work so i still have to wait several days until i can even get a new one. Im fucking dissapointed though, that they actually ship a card that doesnt work... it even says it has been checked several times for issues. my ass... fuck MSI, all my friends have had issues with them so i guess i'll join EVGA or something...

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i can just drive up there but it has been closed this weekend. cant go tomorrow either because of work so i still have to wait several days until i can even get a new one. Im fucking dissapointed though, that they actually ship a card that doesnt work... it even says it has been checked several times for issues. my ass... fuck MSI, all my friends have had issues with them so i guess i'll join EVGA or something...

I'm not going to lie, I was the biggest MSi fan or a long time, they used to make arguably the best parts you could get. Back when their "military grade" actually stood for fucking MILITARY GRADE. The last 2 years when they started to jump on the Asus "gaming" branding MSi has just went down hill drastically. If I'm going to get an Nvidia GPU it is going to be EVGA (love my 970), for AMD I'm going sapphire. And as far as motherboards go I'm only buying Asus and Gigabyte.

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I'm not going to lie, I was the biggest MSi fan or a long time, they used to make arguably the best parts you could get. Back when their "military grade" actually stood for fucking MILITARY GRADE. The last 2 years when they started to jump on the Asus "gaming" branding MSi has just went down hill drastically. If I'm going to get an Nvidia GPU it is going to be EVGA (love my 970), for AMD I'm going sapphire. And as far as motherboards go I'm only buying Asus and Gigabyte.

Military grade doesn't mean much at all.

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Military grade doesn't mean much at all.

 

Nowadays it's just a term to make it sound better... Most of the time.

 

Did you miss the part where I said exactly that or?

"Back when their "military grade" actually stood for fucking MILITARY GRADE"

Means MSi used to use actual military grade components but no longer does.

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Did you miss the part where I said exactly that or?

"Back when their "military grade" actually stood for fucking MILITARY GRADE"

Means MSi used to use actual military grade components but no longer does.

Technically they are still military grade, but military grade is a fucking joke and barely above industry standard in the first place

 

Basing quality off standards that haven't improved in ages obviously isn't going to stay meaningful.

 

Personally, I never understood the allure of military grade in the first place. The military does a shit load of awful stuff and calls it good enough. Fuck top of the line aircraft with engine lifespans in the hundreds of hours is considered "acceptable". Yea totally the biggest baddest things out there.

 

BTW you will probably find this chart amusing (most recent motherboard rma rates reported)... Fancy amazing ASUS sitting at third place

 

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Go with EVGA.

Never had a problem with them.

It's not a race to the bottom.

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Technically they are still military grade, but military grade is a fucking joke and barely above industry standard in the first place

 

Basing quality off standards that haven't improved in ages obviously isn't going to stay meaningful.

 

Personally, I never understood the allure of military grade in the first place. The military does a shit load of awful stuff and calls it good enough. Fuck top of the line aircraft with engine lifespans in the hundreds of hours is considered "acceptable". Yea totally the biggest baddest things out there.

 

BTW you will probably find this chart amusing (most recent motherboard rma rates reported)... Fancy amazing ASUS sitting at third place

 

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I honestly don't know how trust worthy that info pic is. Source is french (does it take into account global rma rates) and it doesn't even Include EVGA which is arguably the best Nvidia manufacturer for a few years now.

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