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Topic: Gotta love GPU warranties - page 2. (Read 9545 times)

legendary
Activity: 1834
Merit: 1020
April 10, 2013, 05:55:21 PM
#7
Eh not exactly the kind of thing I would be boasting about.

It's good they honored their warranty.  Having bought extended warranties 2x at Staples I know to never trust those lying asshats every again.  I just would have answered honestly about the overclock.

90C+ at 100 fan?   WTH you got the cards humping each other?

Yes, they're practically humping each other, although placing some clothespins between the cards to space them out reduced heat by about 4C on the hottest card (I should mention the air circulation in my basement is terrible).  I figured that running them 24/7 was the best way to deal with hot cards.

As far as the boasting, Tiger Direct can suck it since their employees tend to know nothing about anything (I basically had to explain their own warranty policy to them).  And truly, the post was meant to be informative under the guise of being boastful.  I figured this would be something miners may want to consider.
DrG
legendary
Activity: 2086
Merit: 1035
April 10, 2013, 04:30:00 AM
#6
Eh not exactly the kind of thing I would be boasting about.

It's good they honored their warranty.  Having bought extended warranties 2x at Staples I know to never trust those lying asshats every again.  I just would have answered honestly about the overclock.

90C+ at 100 fan?   WTH you got the cards humping each other?
legendary
Activity: 1834
Merit: 1020
April 09, 2013, 08:44:28 PM
#5
Lolz, I bet they were like, wth did he do to them? Lolz. Good win on this though.

"No, I never overclocked them."

 Roll Eyes
hero member
Activity: 770
Merit: 502
April 09, 2013, 08:43:46 PM
#4
Lolz, I bet they were like, wth did he do to them? Lolz. Good win on this though.
legendary
Activity: 1834
Merit: 1020
April 09, 2013, 08:42:15 PM
#3
So, about a year and a half ago I built a mining/gaming rig.  It had a badass mastercooler case, a >$300 ASUS motherboard, i7 2600k, 16 gb corsair ram, 1200 thermaltake psu, etc., and also 3 6970s.  My line of thinking at the time was something like, "Well, if Bitcoin goes to zero, people will still want to buy a gaming rig." 

And, of course, I purchased the 4-year in-store warranty.  I had to...you know...just in case my cards fried themselves out.

Well, after 15 months of running at >90C temps and 100% fan, my cards were finally starting to get a bit unstable at stock settings, so I took them back to the store under warranty.

TL;DR:  Now I have a nice 3x7970 upgrade at no cost.  Can't wait to do it again in 15 months Wink

Microcenter or something?

Tiger Direct.
hero member
Activity: 770
Merit: 502
April 09, 2013, 08:41:31 PM
#2
So, about a year and a half ago I built a mining/gaming rig.  It had a badass mastercooler case, a >$300 ASUS motherboard, i7 2600k, 16 gb corsair ram, 1200 thermaltake psu, etc., and also 3 6970s.  My line of thinking at the time was something like, "Well, if Bitcoin goes to zero, people will still want to buy a gaming rig." 

And, of course, I purchased the 4-year in-store warranty.  I had to...you know...just in case my cards fried themselves out.

Well, after 15 months of running at >90C temps and 100% fan, my cards were finally starting to get a bit unstable at stock settings, so I took them back to the store under warranty.

TL;DR:  Now I have a nice 3x7970 upgrade at no cost.  Can't wait to do it again in 15 months Wink

Microcenter or something?
legendary
Activity: 1834
Merit: 1020
April 09, 2013, 08:37:39 PM
#1
So, about a year and a half ago I built a mining/gaming rig.  It had a badass mastercooler case, a >$300 ASUS motherboard, i7 2600k, 16 gb corsair ram, 1200 thermaltake psu, etc., and also 3 6970s.  My line of thinking at the time was something like, "Well, if Bitcoin goes to zero, people will still want to buy a gaming rig." 

And, of course, I purchased the 4-year in-store warranty.  I had to...you know...just in case my cards fried themselves out.

Well, after 15 months of running at >90C temps and 100% fan, my cards were finally starting to get a bit unstable at stock settings, so I took them back to the store under warranty.

TL;DR:  Now I have a nice 3x7970 upgrade at no cost.  Can't wait to do it again in 15 months Wink
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