ASUS Mars 760 problems

[rwiuviberwVFIUBER]

Hi guys,

I recently purchased a Mars 760 and I've had nothing but problems with it. For some reason when it goes under load (from what I can tell) it just blue screens, or when I play DotA it drops to about 20-30 FPS during hero selection. It's running at stock speeds, I even tried under clocking it, but it kept doing it.

The PSU I have is an XFX 750w Black Edition. I even returned my CPU to stock. I was under the impression 750w should be fine with a 760 sli'd.

Any ideas?

Thanks

 

[MadMarc]

750w should be plenty for this card, especially since both the cpu an the graphics card are running at stock speeds.
What are the temps like?
I assume the rest rest of the parts ran fine before you got the mars

 

[rwiuviberwVFIUBER]

Yeah everything ran fine. Temps are running fine too. It's not like DotA even puts it under load, just during maybe a teamfight it will occasionally drop down to 5 FPS for maybe 2-3 seconds.

 

[rwiuviberwVFIUBER]

I forgot to also mention, after taking the card out and replacing it with my old card, I now have to use the second PCIe slot. No graphics cards work in the first one anymore.

I am building a new PC in a month or so either way. Would just be good to know whether the card is faulty before I get it all set up, that's all.

 

[MadMarc]

I forgot to also mention, after taking the card out and replacing it with my old card, I now have to use the second PCIe slot. No graphics cards work in the first one anymore.

I am building a new PC in a month or so either way. Would just be good to know whether the card is faulty before I get it all set up, that's all.

What happens when you install the Mars in the second slot, are the issues still there?
Did you move the system or something else that might have damaged the slot, as the Mars is a rather large card it puts the pci slot under some stress?

 

[rwiuviberwVFIUBER]

What happens when you install the Mars in the second slot, are the issues still there?
Did you move the system or something else that might have damaged the slot, as the Mars is a rather large card it puts the pci slot under some stress?

Yeah the same thing happens when the Mars is in the second slot. The system hasn't moved at all. Had it all in the same spot when changing parts and booting.

 

[rwiuviberwVFIUBER]

I'm currently using my friends spare 770 and it runs fine, same with my 560Ti

 

[Davva2004]

Can you try your MARS card in your friends rig? Seeing as one of your PCIE slots is already faulty, I suspect it may be the motherboard at fault.

 

[rwiuviberwVFIUBER]

Yeah the hard part is I'm unable to try it in his rig, because it won't fit due to some of his cabling and drives. Moving them wasn't an option for him, so I'm stuck at square one. My motherboard is about 4 years old, and has been running a pretty high OC for the temps in Aus, could that be it?

 

[YouWhat]

As mentioned above, try the card in different machine, and also try the card with a different CPU as I know (from memory without looking it up) the Mars does like to drink quite a bit of power, and also make sure that your PCI-E leads are up to it (swap em out with others if you can).

It's either the MOBO, or card that likely at fault, and with a damaged first slot (x16) the second slot (x8) will more than likely getting mixed signals with the damaged first slot.

My money on the MOBO being the problem here.

 

[rwiuviberwVFIUBER]

Alright cool. I was stressing it was a faulty card because the retailer was really dreadful to deal with just getting the card. Didn't give me a tracking number but made me pay basically 10% of the card in fees.