To keep things simple, I torture-tested my graphics card last night (mostly). I get up this morning, the screen was flashing nice pixels all over, and the fan sounded like it was rubbing on something (this I have yet to figure out what it is really doing but its making a new noise at medium-high speed).

Reset, everything is good (fan still makes noise under load).

Its an EVGA 8800GTS factory overclocked. Only 6 months old.

Call in an RMA? Or run it again and see what happens? Also any clue what really happened with it? Temps got a bit high but no higher than it should under load (just that it kept it for about 6 hrs).

[Edited on December 22, 2008 at 11:18 AM. Reason : inserted model]

12/22/2008 11:13:39 AM

Find out what the fan is rubbing up against.

I would say that any friction that was not intended on the fan is causing it not to get up to full speed enough to cool the GPU at 100% load. If you find that the fan is hosed, RMA it.

12/22/2008 11:27:10 AM

fan is hosed.

12/22/2008 12:03:57 PM

Found out the rubbing, there was a bit of plastic overwrap glued on the card, removed that. No more noise.

Ive been testing again, no luck to reproduce. For the temp, I dont think the fan gets up high enough, and so the memory got a bit hotter than it liked.

It does it again with the pixels, Ill RMA it.

Thanks guys!

12/22/2008 2:11:56 PM