DarkScythe
Limp Gawd
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Hey guys,
I'm looking for some help or advice on an RMA to Gigabyte I'm currently going through. I heard some horror stories, but I had to cross my fingers and hope regardless, and it seems like it may actually be problematic after all.
I sent in a Gigabyte GTX670 a couple weeks ago because it would crash anytime I tried to play any real games with it. I tried many driver versions, and it would always produce the same issue - if I ever loaded the GPU, it would crash, my display would blank in and out, and nvidia's drivers would tell me that they crashed and restarted. It didn't matter what game it was. If I enabled shadows, or AA/AF, or PhysX, or anything beyond low texture quality in most games, it would consistently crash after a half hour or so (sometimes more quickly, sometimes more slowly.)
It got to the point where pretty much anything was unplayable without constant crashing and resetting of my display. Even Path of Exile, a game I don't consider all that demanding as, say, Payday 2 or Borderlands 2, would crash if I didn't limit its FPS to 60 via the vsync option. And even then it still crashed, just less often.
I cleaned out the fans, etc. and monitored its temps via GPU-Z-- it never went above 70C. FWIW my resolution is 1920x1200.
Last week I got fed up with it because basically nothing was playable. I sent it in for an RMA, and am currently back on my 7 year old 8800GT. It struggles to run Path of Exile (and as a result I haven't attempted anything more demanding,) but I have yet to see a single crash with it, which does tell me that there were problems with the GTX670.
Here's the problem... Gigabyte received the card, and I've been monitoring the RMA page for updates; Today, I see this:
...Seriously?
What do I do? If they send me that same card back without doing anything, I'd have wasted $22 out of pocket sending them a clearly defective card.
Any ideas on how to get them to cooperate?
I'm looking for some help or advice on an RMA to Gigabyte I'm currently going through. I heard some horror stories, but I had to cross my fingers and hope regardless, and it seems like it may actually be problematic after all.
I sent in a Gigabyte GTX670 a couple weeks ago because it would crash anytime I tried to play any real games with it. I tried many driver versions, and it would always produce the same issue - if I ever loaded the GPU, it would crash, my display would blank in and out, and nvidia's drivers would tell me that they crashed and restarted. It didn't matter what game it was. If I enabled shadows, or AA/AF, or PhysX, or anything beyond low texture quality in most games, it would consistently crash after a half hour or so (sometimes more quickly, sometimes more slowly.)
It got to the point where pretty much anything was unplayable without constant crashing and resetting of my display. Even Path of Exile, a game I don't consider all that demanding as, say, Payday 2 or Borderlands 2, would crash if I didn't limit its FPS to 60 via the vsync option. And even then it still crashed, just less often.
I cleaned out the fans, etc. and monitored its temps via GPU-Z-- it never went above 70C. FWIW my resolution is 1920x1200.
Last week I got fed up with it because basically nothing was playable. I sent it in for an RMA, and am currently back on my 7 year old 8800GT. It struggles to run Path of Exile (and as a result I haven't attempted anything more demanding,) but I have yet to see a single crash with it, which does tell me that there were problems with the GTX670.
Here's the problem... Gigabyte received the card, and I've been monitoring the RMA page for updates; Today, I see this:
No trouble found after tests with multiple configurations
...Seriously?
What do I do? If they send me that same card back without doing anything, I'd have wasted $22 out of pocket sending them a clearly defective card.
Any ideas on how to get them to cooperate?