980Ti Housefire
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My Inno3D 980 Ti Airboss X3 (the name alone...) is running VERY hot while playing graphically intense games (The Witcher 3 for example).
It's not the chip itself, that's staying at a steady 70 degrees Celsius but it's somewhere around the VRAM I think.
I noticed it first while playing Witcher 3, I heard this weird 'ticking' noise, like metal expanding/shrinking.
It just kept on going so I decided to measure the temperature around on the card (since the GPU chip itself is doing fine).
It gets to fucking 115 degrees Celsius at a specific spot on the backplate (pic related).
My friend had the same card and it died on him, actually burned it. (while playing The Witcher 3 as well...)
It's not overclocked, just the stock boost from Inno3D.
Do you think i can RMA it for this reason? It's obviously not healthy and the card is going to do sooner than later.
The thing is the card will turn 1 year old on June and I don't want it to die after that date.
I'm based in Europe by the way, should be a little easier regarding RMA and shit. Shop i bought it is Caseking.de
>>53824471
>nvidia
not even once
>>53824471
Airflow in my case should be fine.
Define R5 with 3 case fans installed.
CPU is a 3570k overclocked to 4.2GHz and it is not running over ~68 degrees under full load so.
Meanwhile, my friend's 980Ti frozr from MSI doesn't go past 62°C but his case is home made with custom airflow (wood).
I don't see how it's possible to be this fucking bad.
Ask for replacement asap .. if you can't, well redo the thermal paste / maybe thinking about replacing the whole heatsink/fan because it's surely not working here.
>>53824471
OH NO THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING
HOW COULD A FIRST RATE COMPANY LIKE NVIDIA ALLOW THEIR DESIGNS TO BE USED IN SUCH A SHABBY MANNER BY INNO3D, THE MASTERS OF OUR TIME?
>>53824471
sounds like one of your heat pipes cracked and so it isn't working to cool the VRAM like it should?
not sure, not an expert by any means.
>>53824471
Rma it and buy a better brand.
