To RMA or not?

[barnsley]

Hey all ,
So after a short while of faultless goodness my blooming 280x has developed what can only be described as a rattle. On occasions (usually after a few hours of general browsing) the card starts to rattle. if you gently push the card up (or towards the cpu in my case) it stops rattling. Its really annoying, I changed cases relatively recently as that case was rattling and now its my gpu . Its such a hard fault to replicate I really don't know if it'll be worth RMAing. I'll try and get a video of it when it next does it.

Do you guys think I should try and RMA it (either to scan or asus) or is such a small problem I stand no chance and should just go get a different cooler (maybe the Kraken or something)?

 

[QuietOne]

I would try to RMA it. I had a similar problem with my 580 SC a couple of years ago and Scan swapped it within 5 days.

 

[RadeonHDx]

I guess if I were you I'd see if anyone else with a similar configuration to you was having a problem. I doubted that my HX650 that had an annoying squeak when the fan span up and down would be RMA'able but I tried my luck and got an RM750 out of it. Maybe send Asus/Scan an email and see what they say, can't hurt to try.

 

[barnsley]

its completely random. I'm not sure if/when it'll do it again. Its done it quite a few times. If i leave it off for a couple of minutes it doesn't do it for the rest of the day :S

 

[Kaapstad]

I think you may have a dodgy fan, if it's new I would RMA it.

 

[Wraith]

Id send that bad boy straight back.

 

[barnsley]

So it fixed itself and I've discovered that the problem only occurs when it has been moved i.e. to a LAN.
Heres a video, you'll have to bump up the sound though :c.