GTX 570 Black Screen and Reboot!

[remember300]

cool well ill probs consider 2 x 670s from work then

 

[Scoob]

I got a pair of EVGA 680's in the end with Alphacool blocks (in my sig) and they've been performing very well indeed. Don't get me wrong, my 570's in SLI did a great job in every game I played (1920x1200) and I'd not have upgraded at this time if that Inno3d 570 wasn't faulty.

I think you'd be very happy with a pair of 670's.

Scoob.

 

[remember300]

yeah i will probs air cool till i consider going full WC
but im still ashamed at PNY

 

[Scoob]

Fair enough. I ran my 680's on air to test them before I blocked them up and while they were of course noisy vs. water cooled, they were perfectly acceptable. As the weather warms though and I need to turn the fans up they'd likely have bothered me.

Yeah, that's shocking of PNY, I thought they were better than that.

Scoob.

 

[alienware]

So, for the record, we're saying here that PNY do NOT honour their warranties - basically, PNY have NO FAITH in their products and do not give a crap if they break. Nice. Glad I've never had any of their kit - nor will I. If this happened to me (In the UK) I'd be getting legal advice right now. In the EU "Lifetime" warranty means 10 years - strange but true - so I'd expect as much.

They only started doing it to compete with BFG who did offer a real,full, lifetime warranty.

I guess they realised they had no choice. Any way, it was never a real lifetime warranty. They were interviewed (it's on Youtube somewhere) and they said that lifetime meant all the time that card was current tech and still in production (so basically the lifetime of Fermi whilst they still make the 570).

Their products aren't even their products. They're Mickey Mouse pony poo and all they do is stick a sticker on a Nvidia board. They don't make custom PCBs or anything like that and the furthest they've ever gone was to stick a single rad water cooler on their cards.

MSI, Asus, Gigabyte... All buy just the GPU cores from Nvidia then design their own custom coolers and PCBs.

There are few companies I would completely avoid but PNY are one, based on their dishonest warranty for a start.

As for this 570? the clue is in the facts we have. It'll fold (indicating it's not the core) but won't do much else (indicating it's the vram as IIRC folding doesn't touch it).

There's a chance the card has received static damage and you've popped one of the memory chips. Easily done without an ESD wrist strap.

If that's the case (and I strongly suspect it is) baking it will achieve nothing.

 

[glitch666]

Actually baking it helped, I played crysis 3 on it all night. But if I try any other game it reboots my pc......... This card is gay. You guys might find this funny but I tried calling there tech support this morning for good measure and they pretty much told me to fuck off. PNY needs to be boycotted.

 

[alienware]

Actually baking it helped, I played crysis 3 on it all night. But if I try any other game it reboots my pc......... This card is gay. You guys might find this funny but I tried calling there tech support this morning for good measure and they pretty much told me to fuck off. PNY needs to be boycotted.

Nothing I didn't already know mate sadly.

I used to manage a computer shop back in the late 90s and they were pony then.

I've worked in computers for years tbh. Nothing tops the Fujitsu episode though ! We had about 80 faulty 20gb hard drives (IDE) and sent them back under warranty (it used to be printed on the top of the drive).

Any way, what would you know? all 80 (yes, I mean every single f*****g drive) came back with circuit board damage that was apparently there when they got them.

Looks like some snotty nosed twat sat there with a screw driver going "no, that one's damaged *gouge scrape* oh look ! that one's damaged too !".

Oddly enough they ended up stopping production of hard drives.

Make sure you email them the link to this thread. Nice bit of customer feedback will do them good.