StoleMyOwnCar
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Yesterday I was playing WoW and getting some stuttering. I'd been getting that in Civ 6, too, but much worse. Thought it was a driver issue. Updated Nvidia drivers before playing WoW.
Woke up today to a distinct (surprisingly mild though) burning smell in the living room. Thought it was my aquarium tech, but nope; my displays didn't have a picture. Opened up the GPU to find that some of the VRAM modules looked like they had blackish areas under them, it smelled really burnt, and the backplate (normally black) had this orangish area. Thankfully it didn't actually catch on fire (probably), and the rest of the components seem good. Hooked in my old 780 and it's running just fine, but obviously my old 780 isn't going to power this 3440x1440 Acer Predator worth a crap.
Checked Gigabyte's site and looks like I'm screwed. Although I bought it in November as part of an open box deal, the thing's warranty ended at the beginning of this month because I guess they go by manufacture date...
So has anyone had any luck getting service slightly outside the warranty like this? Or should I be looking for a new card. TBH I was just fine with this thing's performance at this resolution, so I'm thinking about getting a 1080Ti as I think that would be the good spot for this monitor for about 3-4 years. Most 980Ti's would be going out of warranty at this point like this one; not doing that again. Kind of annoying since I only overclocked the thing once and it wasn't even that much; I then just left it at stock. The new generation seems too expensive to invest in, and I don't think I need it considering I game a bit less now anyway.
Opinions? Birthday's coming up so I'm probably just going to get a 1080Ti...
... side note I wonder if making all of those ridiculous rockets in Kerbal somehow fried my VRAM....
Woke up today to a distinct (surprisingly mild though) burning smell in the living room. Thought it was my aquarium tech, but nope; my displays didn't have a picture. Opened up the GPU to find that some of the VRAM modules looked like they had blackish areas under them, it smelled really burnt, and the backplate (normally black) had this orangish area. Thankfully it didn't actually catch on fire (probably), and the rest of the components seem good. Hooked in my old 780 and it's running just fine, but obviously my old 780 isn't going to power this 3440x1440 Acer Predator worth a crap.
Checked Gigabyte's site and looks like I'm screwed. Although I bought it in November as part of an open box deal, the thing's warranty ended at the beginning of this month because I guess they go by manufacture date...
So has anyone had any luck getting service slightly outside the warranty like this? Or should I be looking for a new card. TBH I was just fine with this thing's performance at this resolution, so I'm thinking about getting a 1080Ti as I think that would be the good spot for this monitor for about 3-4 years. Most 980Ti's would be going out of warranty at this point like this one; not doing that again. Kind of annoying since I only overclocked the thing once and it wasn't even that much; I then just left it at stock. The new generation seems too expensive to invest in, and I don't think I need it considering I game a bit less now anyway.
Opinions? Birthday's coming up so I'm probably just going to get a 1080Ti...
... side note I wonder if making all of those ridiculous rockets in Kerbal somehow fried my VRAM....