So I have a 4850 X2 card which the Fan quit working on like a year ago and finally I got a fan for it to fix the problem exact same repalcement.
Anyways turns out the Fan isn't the problem but the card itself, there is no physical damage, removed the heat sinks, checked the memory and processors for damage no sign of any damage at all.
However when booting up the card only one fan works, turns out its a problem others have had with the same card.
Personally I will not be ordering another Graphics Card from Sapphire Tech, because of their fail support, and the fact that the card wasn't the first one that went dead either, and the only graphics card brand that has ever failed me so far, I still have 2 7800 GT's from 5 years ago running just fine. I know some will be questioning like HUH? Old graphics cards they have their uses, and I dont like wasting.
So I hear that if I bake my graphics card stick it in the oven for awhile it might fix the problem if a connection has became unsolder?
What is the most that could happen after a bake fry my motherboard, or worse, worth the risk?
Anyone ever tried this?
http://www.addictivetips.com/hardware/fix-your-graphics-card-by-baking-in-oven/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmzGnjJNZrM
http://computershopper.com/feature/inside-a-mainland-china-factory-how-a-graphics-card-is-made-in-100-pictures
did some digging on it turns out they do use an oven sorta.
What kind of power connector the fan uses? Would it be possible to connect your fan to one of your motherboard's fan power connectors to bypass whatever is broken in the card?
as they say... if you have nothing to loose do it (just make sure you are in a well ventilated area and if you use a kitchen owen clean it after you are done(toxic fumes and all that).
It's very unlikely that you'd see any benefit from baking your card. That only fixes one particular defect, namely, when a bump that connects the die to the substrate of a GPU chip breaks. Baking the card melts the bump and can reconnect it to the substrate, which buys you a little bit of time before the card dies again. If the problem with your card is anything else, baking your card won't help.
The reason that people tried baking cards in the first place is that some Nvidia cards were very prone to it for a while due to a defective manufacturing process. The affected cards are GeForce 8000 series and some GeForce 9000 series cards, not what you have.
Blaming it on Sapphire is taking the wrong lesson from it. Video cards don't last forever, and you got 3-4 years from it. Dual GPU cards are particularly prone to failure. Sapphire's Radeon HD 4850 X2 was a custom card, but the reference 4870 X2s had a horrible case of dual GPU failure.
It's a simple problem of too much heat in too little space. The solution is to put out less heat, or to have more space for it. The only good reason to get a dual GPU card is so that you can get two of them for a quad SLI or CrossFireX setup. For two GPUs, you're better off with two separate cards.
It does work, I read that once and adviced my friend with a broken card to do it. It worked for him but after 2 months the GPU stopped working again and the oven trick didnt work anymore.
If you've only ever had 1 graphics card die, consider yourself lucky.
I won't say Sapphire is any worse than anyone else out there - certainly better than some. Video cards pack a lot of power in a small area, and are prone to all kinds of problems, especially as they age.
The "Oven Fix" may work, but I wouldn't expect miracles.
Originally posted by ZacKxFair
I suggest you buy HD 6850 for ATI or GTX 560ti for nvidia.. but nvidia are more powerful than ATI since they have phsyx program.
There are so many things wrong there. First, a Radeon HD 6850 isn't a good purchase, as it barely outperforms the newer Radeon HD 7770 while costing a lot more. Neither is a GeForce GTX 560 Ti a good purchase, as it trails substantially behind a Radeon HD 7850 for about the same price.
It doesn't entirely make sense to say that Nvidia is more powerful than ATI or vice versa, as it depends on which card you get. At the high end, a Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition is the fastest single-GPU card on the market. There aren't ATI cards anymore, as Radeon cards are nowo sold under the AMD brand name.
And finally, PhysX should run on the CPU, if it runs at all. Your video card doesn't matter for that. GPU PhysX is a dumb gimmick that no one implements unless Nvidia pays them to. To do GPU PhysX properly, you have to have multiple Nvidia cards in the same system not running in SLI, so that one can be a dedicated PhysX card.
Yes, do it. Film it. Put it on YouTube.
I considered that myself actually, when my GeForce broke. But then I didn't. In case my current graphics card breaks, I guess I will try baking the GeForce. Nothing to lose. :)
I was a hardware Technican for years and we baked boards on numerous occasions. A certain HP printer was notirious for having bad soder joints on the formatter board. We baked half a dozon of these and it fixed most of them. Just bake at 350 and don't leave it in for more then 15 minutes.
Make some cupcakes while you are at it.
