What screws for a GTX 780 ti FE Zotac?

[kjing]

Hi LTT Forumers,

 

Since I've bought this GTX 780 ti (used), it has been giving me issues. The original owner had a waterblock on it, therefore some screws are missing from the card when the reference cooler is put on. When I originally bought the card, the card would run really hot, and would constantly require undervolting just to run at under 85 degrees celcius.

Today I decided to try and clean the card, including rethermals to the GPU die in order to get better temps and less noise from the card. Unfortunately, when I Was done with the card, I realized that the issue wasn't in the dust inside the card, but instead the issue was that the 4 screws on the backplate were not there, and instead 2 screws were forcefully jammed in the slots to attempt to keep the heatsink tightly pressed against the die.

Now, this forcing of the two screws may have done the job keeping the card from crashing at least, but after I redid the thermals on the die, I wasn't able to force the screws back in, and the result is that now my card shuts down from overheating every time I try and open a game.
Here's what I've already done to try and solve the issue:

-I've contacted zotac, asking them for replacement screws, but since it is a rather old card and zotac is notorious for providing bad support, I doubt they will send me a replacement set of screws.

-I've searched online for replacement screws: I couldn't find any replacement screws online for the 780ti. If anyone can send me a link to where I can get replacement screws, it would be greatly appreciated!

Either way, at this point, I really don't know what I should do. Should I try to get new screws and attempt to fix the card, or should I just trash to card and get a new one?
Either way, any help is appreciated!

[Billy_Mays]

Do you have the water block?

[Tiwaz]

if you want a cheap and decent cooling solution. Get an Arctic Accelero Twin Turbo 3 cooler. If you want more you can get the 3 fan version or the hybrid one with a 120 rad

[kjing]

1 hour ago, Billy_Mays said:

Do you have the water block?

No, I don't. Only the reference cooler

[kjing]

1 hour ago, Tiwaz said:

if you want a cheap and decent cooling solution. Get an Arctic Accelero Twin Turbo 3 cooler. If you want more you can get the 3 fan version or the hybrid one with a 120 rad

I'll keep this in mind but I'd prefer if someone knew where I could buy 4 screws

[Vegetable]

3 minutes ago, kjing said:

I'll keep this in mind but I'd prefer if someone knew where I could buy 4 screws

its just a reference 780 ti right? (THERES NO SUCH THING AS AN FE FOR ANY CARDS 900 SERIES OR OLDER PLEASE DONT USE THAT TERMINOLOGY.)  aside from zotac, you could probably contact really any vendor and just bs claiming you have an asus ref 780ti and they might send you screws who knows. umm if you knew the screw size/threading you could probably find it at your local hardware store somewhere

[Tiwaz]

are we talking about the four screws that hold the cooler on the gpu?

[kjing]

44 minutes ago, Tiwaz said:

are we talking about the four screws that hold the cooler on the gpu?

Yes, the four.  I just checked and I may have been wrong earlier, they may be spring screws.

[kjing]

50 minutes ago, Vegetable said:

its just a reference 780 ti right? (THERES NO SUCH THING AS AN FE FOR ANY CARDS 900 SERIES OR OLDER PLEASE DONT USE THAT TERMINOLOGY.)  aside from zotac, you could probably contact really any vendor and just bs claiming you have an asus ref 780ti and they might send you screws who knows. umm if you knew the screw size/threading you could probably find it at your local hardware store somewhere

I will try contacting Asus or EVGA about it.