Eh what the hell...UPDATED WITH CARD IN COMPUTER

[drpootums]

well, if this keeps up are we heading for a lock?

 

[nRollo]

I didn't accuse you of theft aerasal, I just wanted you to be aware that if you omit the fact that you OCed the card you will be a thief.

You, I, and the people responding here aren't electrical engineers who are qualified to examine your card and tell you exactly why the core failed.

You and the others are guessing about something you really have no formal education about, nor the facility to test and know for sure.

The warranty of your card states something about running the product out of spec, I'll guarantee that. If you used coolbits or another program, it told you that you were voiding the warranty.

The only way you could have OCd it without voiding the warranty is if eVGA sent you a bios that clocked it at 350, or specifically told you to do so.

The fact you saw the temperature cooler, that some guys who have no idea what they're talking about said it's ok, or that tech support is in India has nothing to do with this.

You voided your warranty, you know you did, and if you return it without telling eVGA this, you will have stolen from them.

It wouldn't be worth living with the knowledge I'm a thief to me for $300, but maybe your conscience doesn't bother you like mine would.

If I bought the card from you before it died, then emailed you and said I OCd it to make it run cooler, would you refund my money? Be stuck with a dead card and not know if I killed it? I don't think so, why do you want to do the same to eVGA?

 

[nRollo]

User Rating: -13,329.49
No of votes: 75

clearly LOTS of people in this forum agree...

your killing this thread, please take your self justified vigilante justice elsewhere. try appling it to something useful like a soup kitchen or shelter.

Like I said, I'd rather be a jackass than a dumbass.

I haven't said anything untrue here, but when you make people feel bad about themselves, get temporary/permanent bans, you're bound to get some hostile feedback.

As for the -13,329.49, yeah sure, whatever. I've helped a lot of people on this board, gave a lot of people killer deals on hardware, inside info on the industry before anyone else- I don't think I care too much a disgruntled teenager or two is out to sabotage my user rating.

When you've sold out your honor for piddling little amounts of money like $300, your opinion ceases to become relevant to me.

 

[Lantano]

Rollo, dude we agree with your staggering intellect, now please stop thread crapping....

I am an owner of a defective eVGA 6800 LE and this thread has been very informative. In fact I would guess a lot of eVGA 6800 LE users find this thread useful. All your doing is risking getting this thread locked for the rest of us becuase you can't seem to stop responding.... you win, give it a rest please!

 

[THUGSROOK]

Originally posted by: aerasal

Originally posted by: AWhackWhiteBoy
the core is pretty straight forward, either it works or it doesn't. however, the supporting components that MAKE the core work might have gotten fried. but that wouldn't be attributed to the extra 25mhz.

its probably a PCB problem. try the card in another PC, it might be something silly like its not getting enough power or something. if not get eVGA on the phone to help you troubleshoot it.

does the same thing in other pcs

flash your card to our unofficial LE-Ultra bios, that should fix it up.


like i said before ~ 90% of these cards were defective out of the box (mine included). we are doing eVGA a huge favor just trying to get these things to work.

how well do you think eVGA would handle 600+ RMAs? ...all asking for a full refund.

 

[Zahriya]

Hey Rollo, if you read my post earlier in this thread you would have noticed that eVGA understands that these cards are defective, and people are modifying them to get them to work. When I rma'd my first card, I told eVGA exactly what I did, about changing the bios, and running coolbits on the card, and they still acknowledged that the card was SOLD DEFECTIVE and needs to be RMA'd. They didnt care, and neither should you, unless of course you're the CEO of eVGA.

 

[Zahriya]

Hey Thugs, which bios are you running, and at what speeds? Also, in your oppinion, which bios do you think is the best overall? It seems like you would recommend the GT 350/1100 bios over the ultra 400/1100, or am i wrong? If so, why? Thanks!!

 

[aerasal]

thugsrook and Zahriya, should i try to flash the bios before trying to rma the card? i just don't understand why that would make a difference at this point. the card ran great for 3 weeks on the stock bios. thx for the help.

 

[AWhackWhiteBoy]

Originally posted by: Zahriya
Hey Rollo, if you read my post earlier in this thread you would have noticed that eVGA understands that these cards are defective, and people are modifying them to get them to work. When I rma'd my first card, I told eVGA exactly what I did, about changing the bios, and running coolbits on the card, and they still acknowledged that the card was SOLD DEFECTIVE and needs to be RMA'd. They didnt care, and neither should you, unless of course you're the CEO of eVGA.

In my RMA i also mentioned i tried different OCing software to change the clocks speeds up and down to find the trouble spots.

Eitherway, eVGA can tell if a card is blatantly damaged from the user, its their job to do so.

Rolo is a useless 3rd wheel that refuses to see the light of day.

If you feed a troll it will only grow.

 

[THUGSROOK]

i recommend the LE-Ultra bios for rock solid stability and compatability.

the LE-GT files are just toys to play with.

 

[aerasal]

nm about my post. i can't flash the bios, i'm getting nothing but blurryness even at bios

 

[THUGSROOK]

Originally posted by: aerasal
nm about my post. i can't flash the bios, i'm getting nothing but blurryness even at bios

yes you can. itll fix it if you do (99.99% chance)

 

[aerasal]

Originally posted by: THUGSROOK

Originally posted by: aerasal
nm about my post. i can't flash the bios, i'm getting nothing but blurryness even at bios

yes you can. itll fix it if you do (99.99% chance)

could you give me a link to your newest bios? or the le-ultra one

 

[THUGSROOK]

http://www.bleedinedge.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5056

 

[aerasal]

thanks

 

[aerasal]

ok, but how do i flash the bios if i can't see anything?

 

[nRollo]

Originally posted by: Zahriya
Hey Rollo, if you read my post earlier in this thread you would have noticed that eVGA understands that these cards are defective, and people are modifying them to get them to work. When I rma'd my first card, I told eVGA exactly what I did, about changing the bios, and running coolbits on the card, and they still acknowledged that the card was SOLD DEFECTIVE and needs to be RMA'd. They didnt care, and neither should you, unless of course you're the CEO of eVGA.

Zahriya:
I've got no problem with what you did whatsoever.

My only issue is with OCing hardware and RMAing it after failure w/o notifying the vendor.

 

[Solarflare]

I guess you could go to the page Aonic has in his signiture and try and guess when you should press different keys in the menus.... ex. If you hear the floppy drive start spinning and the light stays on for more than a few seconds, wait until it stops and then press the number 2 to use the menus. Then press 2 again to flash to the LE-Ultra 350-1100 or 3 to flash to the 400-1100. If the floppy stops spinning for a prolonged period of time, press y(Pressing Y will allow the flash to begin *Press any key*) and once the bios is done flashing (Or after several beeps and multiple chatters of the floppy, press, I believe it is 4 to enter the command prompt and then type 'reboot' and hit enter. Then press Y and once your computer restarts, pray that you can read the post screen.... I would appreciate any corrections to the above method as I wrote it from memory....

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Does anyone here know how much a Gig of ram vs. 512Mb of ram will affect the score of a computer in 3DMark05?

 

[Rhagz]

ram should have little to no difference in a 3dmark05 score.. i think 3d'01 and maybe '03 were helped by cpu/ram stats a little, but '05 is a video hardware only test.

 

[Tyrant222]

i decided to just live with those dots in need for speed. I tried the 1.5 gt bios today.

im up to 455 on the core and not a single freeze or artifact.

I had a vanilla 6800nu before this card and it would refuse to go over 380. My screen would freeze after a couple minutes of anything 3d.

its like i cant find the limit of this thing!

 

[Rhagz]

i get those dots in nfsu2 as well.. little black ones randomly pop up on the trunk of the car (the silver one in the demo) and a few white ones on the bottom of the bridge in the demo circuit race. If I way underclock the card to like 1000 on the mem, they go away.. it kinda sucks, but i dont plan on buying that game anyway so its not a big deal..

another thing.. i tried the farcry demo and man, there were some serious issues on that game.. parts of the ground would turn green and black and the water looked like crap.. is this just an issue with the demo? since it was made before 6800's came out and all.. just wondering if the retail version and patches fixed it, or if something on my end is wrong.

 

[Zendeath]

Originally posted by: Rhagz
ram should have little to no difference in a 3dmark05 score.. i think 3d'01 and maybe '03 were helped by cpu/ram stats a little, but '05 is a video hardware only test.

Yeah, 01 is heavily CPU dependant - I can't even break 18K with my XP 2700+ in 01, but I get 5200 in 05 - which is primarily GPU dependant. I also get almost 12K in 03, so it isn't nearly as reliant on the CPU as 01. Of course the CPU will have a relative effect regardless of the benchmark test.

From what I've observed I don't think there is a significant difference between 512MB and 1 GB of ram. Ram speed may be another matter.

 

[johnannie]

Hey guys, I have a question. I have an Asus P4c800e-d and I was wondering what the settings should be for Agp/PCI Frequency. The choices are 66.66/33.33 or 72.73/36.36 or 80.00/40.00 Does anyone have any ideas? I have read in several forums that one should stick to 66.66/33.33 99 percent of the time. Do you have any experience with this?

 

[AWhackWhiteBoy]

don't touch the AGP freqency, leave it be

 

[THUGSROOK]

Originally posted by: Tyrant222
i decided to just live with those dots in need for speed. I tried the 1.5 gt bios today.

im up to 455 on the core and not a single freeze or artifact.

I had a vanilla 6800nu before this card and it would refuse to go over 380. My screen would freeze after a couple minutes of anything 3d.

its like i cant find the limit of this thing!

|H|ocp had those dots in their 6600GT review, and also in their ATI comparisons.
normally id say its a driver bug ~ but ATI also?
....DX9 BUG!

either way, something is fishy