Yeah, I'm worried they'll figure out it was modded and hose my warranty!Edward Ng wrote:In that case, it looks like the card either A) was defective to start with, but got worse over time or B) really did suffer heat damage.freshjuice wrote:Whatever the issue, I am actually submitting an RMA on the card. After running with the stock fan for a bit, it started to fail again.
It could be unrelated, so we'll have to see. It's a good thing I didn't sell the stock fan!
THe good thing is, I actually had a X800XT lying around. I'm in the process of selling pulled parts from someone else's gaming system. I had to put the VM-101 so it sticks of it pretty far to avoid the XP-90, but it actually runs really well with the fanless solution!
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That's highly unlikely; it would cost them more in personnel costs to examine every single returned piece that carefully than they'd get back in rejected coverage.freshjuice wrote:Yeah, I'm worried they'll figure out it was modded and hose my warranty!Edward Ng wrote:In that case, it looks like the card either A) was defective to start with, but got worse over time or B) really did suffer heat damage.freshjuice wrote:Whatever the issue, I am actually submitting an RMA on the card. After running with the stock fan for a bit, it started to fail again.
It could be unrelated, so we'll have to see. It's a good thing I didn't sell the stock fan!
THe good thing is, I actually had a X800XT lying around. I'm in the process of selling pulled parts from someone else's gaming system. I had to put the VM-101 so it sticks of it pretty far to avoid the XP-90, but it actually runs really well with the fanless solution!
So don't worry.