by zog on Sun Mar 18, 2012 5:29 pm
I may have just killed the 5770... after having a lot of fun with it since I got it.
I've had it overclocked and running fairly hot and been running lots of computational stuff on it that has been using full power, but the last few days it has been fairly cool, and when it failed I wasn't really hammering it at all. But as it was a second hand unit maybe suddenly been thrown into 24/7 flat chat use could have overstretched it.
-> No smoke, no smell from it.
-> PC just shut down, like it lost power.
-> PC when turned on, starts up for a split second (Radeon and system fans start spinning) - then whole system shuts off.
-> I've "only" got a 430W PSU - though an OK Seasonic one, but the system was idling @ about 100W and using 212W flat chat, so still only half the rated capacity of the PSU.
My PC works fine with the card removed (using onboard graphics).
I have yet to try the card in another PC, I'll do that.
Either my power supply isnt cutting it, or I just killed the card. I have been overclocking the hell out of it and for a few days non stop was running it into the 90 degree temp range running computation stuff.
live and learn! I was getting great framerates on UrbanTerror with it as well compared to my usual onboard Intel graphics