Advice On What To Do

Squirrel-666

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sorry if this is in wrong section.

Right i recently RMAed a HIS 6870 back to yoyotech thing is they had no HIS cards left so offered me a sapphire 6870 which i excepted,recieved it friday installed it and everything was going smoothly thats was untill last nite after i played a few rounds of Bad Company 2 the cards fan spun down stopped,spun back up then my screen went black so i restarted and now im not gettin any signal on my monitor the status light on the monitor stays orange instead of blue,i thought it mite be my mobo or somthing so i tested a friends 580 and what do you know booted up and worked perfectly so i put the sapphire back in and tried it with hdmi output to me TV,even used the Dp on my friends monitor(he has 3 lol) and card refused to work.

now my question is do i get yoyotech to give me a full refund including postage costs and take my buissness elsewere or ask them to give me an upgrade due to the problems ive had.

forgot to mention when i removed the sapphire from the system 2 very small microchips fell off in my hand.

what would you recommend me todo,refund go elsewere,upgrade

recommened me a new card i have £200 for a new one.

cheers guys

Tony
 
forgot to mention when i removed the sapphire from the system 2 very small microchips fell off in my hand.

Tony

If they have a proper tech team , they will notice this or already knew this
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do you have any idea where it came from , what small microchips fell off ?
 
hello,

sad story. refund. I've had 2 AMD/ATI cards and both fail. I thought it'd be due to the brand, Powercolor. Sapphire is the best AMD card builder i think.

Nvidia GTX 470's are around £200. Build quality is excellent and I think it's faster than the 6870.

It'll give you a better quality life
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here is one, click the link below

http://www.amazon.co.uk/KFA2-nVIDIA...LJT8/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1294072845&sr=8-7

this is it on the KFA2 website, click the link below

http://www.kfa2.com/gtx470gc1280mbd5.html

mm 2 years warranty with KFA2

i don't know why the fan can be flipped. anyone know?

thats the best i found for price/quality. it's factory overclocked. Made by KFA2 wich is the European branch of GALAXY, wich is American. It has over 1.2Gig of memory, not 1 Gig like it states on Amazon

Not alot of 470's left. Only 3 of this type on Amazon. they have a phone number so get info on warranty etc and there is some info on Amazon. I didn't see this card on the other sites i searched.

I think using this card, some heat is exhausted into the computer case, because the custom cooler looks like it will do that, so you'll benefit with a good air flow in the case, doesn't have to be extreme, just good.

Good luck Squirrel
 
If they have a proper tech team , they will notice this or already knew this
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do you have any idea where it came from , what small microchips fell off ?

the card came from yoyotech.co.uk and is a sapphire and from what i can see they came off directly next to the core and by the looks of it 2 others have came off aswell but they are by the RAM chips.

i am tempted to get a GTX 470 thinking either the KFA2 or EVGA i do want a waterblock on it at some point thou but im guessing it aint gonna be easy gettin a ref card lol i shall get a pic later and let you all see what i mean.

my airflow is ok got 2 140 fans on the side so they help.

i loved the HIS thought it was an excellent card but now that ive had another problem with another amd card i am very tempted to go green lol
 
Id get your money back if I was you. I have heard a little whisper the 560 will be officially announced on or around the 21st of this month though and that should be sub £200.
 
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good.

Squirrel you might reconsider the want to watercool. i think it's an expensive and tricky option. the current 500's have a vapour chamber cooler, standard. and OC3D has OC'd the 580 and are satisfied with the result. so i think you'd prefer spending money on a better, vapour chamber cooled chip. it should be cheaper than sortin a watercooler system, it'll play your games/media etc better and it'll last longer, if the little microchips don't fall off
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@ TinyTom

Im going to cant handle any more problems with AMD i mean there HIS was excellent but when that goes funny and then the replacment goes funny you kinda wanna change your mind and go green lol.

i mite be tempted to wait till the 560 if its around that price

im in tWo minds atm though over these 3 cards.

EVGA 460 SC - EVGA 470 SC - ZOTAC 460 AMP EDITION.

@Jerome

ive always had cpu only loops and would love to do a CPU/GPU loop. just 1 of those things i wanna do.

but then again with the money i save i could get some new bits for me system i never thought of that lol

i take it TinyTom got the OC bug for that 580 lol
 
lol,

well done

i saw a linus tech tips video. hold your horses here, he put a video card in a hot oven, to re-solder some components i think
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. makes me wonder if the card you had's components fell off for other reasons than bad manufacturing.
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was the card sealed new?

ebuyer sent me an ex-display card, i ordered new, they replaced it
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yea it was brand new sealed box and sealed card inside took me 5 mins to open the sealed wrap lol

but im now temporarily sorted a friend of mine is lending me his XFX 5770 XXX untill the 560s are released then i can make a choice.
 
lol,

well done

i saw a linus tech tips video. hold your horses here, he put a video card in a hot oven, to re-solder some components i think
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. makes me wonder if the card you had's components fell off for other reasons than bad manufacturing.
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was the card sealed new?

ebuyer sent me an ex-display card, i ordered new, they replaced it
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Do you have a link to the vid? I thought i've seen all of his vids.
 
sorry if this is in wrong section.

Right i recently RMAed a HIS 6870 back to yoyotech thing is they had no HIS cards left so offered me a sapphire 6870 which i excepted,recieved it friday installed it and everything was going smoothly thats was untill last nite after i played a few rounds of Bad Company 2 the cards fan spun down stopped,spun back up then my screen went black so i restarted and now im not gettin any signal on my monitor the status light on the monitor stays orange instead of blue,i thought it mite be my mobo or somthing so i tested a friends 580 and what do you know booted up and worked perfectly so i put the sapphire back in and tried it with hdmi output to me TV,even used the Dp on my friends monitor(he has 3 lol) and card refused to work.

now my question is do i get yoyotech to give me a full refund including postage costs and take my buissness elsewere or ask them to give me an upgrade due to the problems ive had.

forgot to mention when i removed the sapphire from the system 2 very small microchips fell off in my hand.

what would you recommend me todo,refund go elsewere,upgrade

recommened me a new card i have £200 for a new one.

cheers guys

Tony

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-137-GW&utm_source=froogle this offer is amazing
 
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