ANOTHER XFX 5870 bites the dust - Overclock.net

Diabolical999 · 4 Weeks Ago

MAN, just yesterday I posted in someone's thread about their XFX 5870 dying (http://www.overclock.net/ati/594656-...ml#post7446640), and I sorta down-played it being "an 'XFX' problem," since the majority of posters were raging at XFX at that point. So I thought "pffft, whatever." But today I feel 100% different...

So I'm in the middle of CoD4 (after about 15 min.), when suddenly my screen loses its signal and goes black, my sound starts stuttering, then comp. inevitably freezes on me. So I try and fire the computer back up and absolutely nothing happens. I then decide to touch the card and it is absolutely scorching hot to the touch. So I take the card out and let it cool down for 10 min., put it back in and turn the computer back on. It actually turns On this time, but there's no video signal, and I notice the fan is oddly stuck spinning at full speed (100%). So I shut down, clear my cmos, fire comp back up, and not only is there still no video signal & fan stuck spinning at 100%, but my mobo is now letting off a loud error beep code for 2 1/2 seconds -- which, not surprisingly, has to do with a video error. I tried the card in the secondary PCI-E slot, but same thing. So, back to onboard video.
I've only had the card for around 3 weeks. I feel like dropping it off a cliff instead of RMA'ing.