GTX 570 broken?

snail112 said:
Which of these two cards is the better one:

Zotac GTX 1060 6GB 3yr @ R4599

or

EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING ACX 3yr @ R4550

Evga card has one fan with base and boost clocks lower for R50 cheaper, where the Zotac has two fans and higher base and boost clocks.

I am not worried about the R50 price difference. More concerned about the performance.

Any suggestions?
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Read the reviews on Amazon, that's why I decided against a one fan card I was considering.
 
snail112 said:
Any suggestions?
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Take the Zotac.

1. Much bigger heatsink, dual fans thus better cooling and lower temps, silent 0rpm fans.
2. Slightly higher clocks out of the box.

That said all the pascal cards perform about the same, if you overclock them they all run at ~2.1GHz give or take a few Hz and FPS wise that does not translate into much.

The main reason to go fo the Zotac is better cooling, silent fans (0 rpm) at low temps. The evga on the other hand runs hot & noisy at times thermal throttling apparently.
 
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ponder said:
Take the Zotac.

1. Much bigger heatsink, dual fans thus better cooling and lower temps, silent 0rpm fans.
2. Slightly higher clocks out of the box.

That said all the pascal cards perform about the same, if you overclock them they all run at ~2.1GHz give or take a few Hz and FPS wise that does not translate into much.

The main reason to go fo the Zotac is better cooling, silent fans (0 rpm) at low temps. The evga on the other hand runs hot & noisy at times thermal throttling apparently.
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That^

Only go "mini" if you need to with a baby case, the cooling is enough but the bigger heatsinks and fans give a lot more overhead.
 
ScottulusMaximus said:
That^

Only go "mini" if you need to with a baby case, the cooling is enough but the bigger heatsinks and fans give a lot more overhead.
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Thing that's even worse with the evga gaming card is that it uses a heatsink that 'looks' like a stock intel cpu heatsink. It has no heat pipes or fancy high density fin placement. Really crappy design imho.
 
snail112 said:
Thanks ponder, that Zotac card is the one I have my eye on for a while now.



I have a gas stove at home and I am not going to buy a heat gun just to try and fix the 570.
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Well mate once you get a new card, send it off to me and I will gladly fix it, and you can donate it to which ever person has a need for a graphics card. ;)
 
wizardofid said:
Well mate once you get a new card, send it off to me and I will gladly fix it, and you can donate it to which ever person has a need for a graphics card. ;)
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I borrowed a heat gun. I am about to remove the HSF and clean off the stickers and residual dust on the PCB, then I'm off cooking this sucker to see if I can get a few more days out of it until I get the new card.
 
What areas should I cover with tin foil when using the heat gun?

Should I use the heat gun on the back side of the PCB too?
 
snail112 said:
What areas should I cover with tin foil when using the heat gun?

Should I use the heat gun on the back side of the PCB too?
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I think best would be to concentrate on the GPU die area, but personally I just popped my old legendary 8800GTX into the oven propped up on four tinfoil balls and hoped for the best. As long as the die is facing up I reckon it should be fine.

Not saying the die will fall off the board if you have it upside down but the paranoid oke in me would do that.
 
wabbit16 said:
I think best would be to concentrate on the GPU die area, but personally I just popped my old legendary 8800GTX into the oven propped up on four tinfoil balls and hoped for the best. As long as the die is facing up I reckon it should be fine.

Not saying the die will fall off the board if you have it upside down but the paranoid oke in me would do that.
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Usually a mirco crack you don't really need to completely melt the solder just enough for the crack to close again, because you targeting with a heat gun the moment you remove the heat the solder settles albeit piping hot, there will always be solder attached, so unlikely it will move or fall off.

However you can target areas bit by bit to be on the safe side, you shouldn't apply the gun directly to the PCB a good couple of CM above it.
 
So far everything is running OK after nuking the GPU chip and RAM chips four times with the heat gun; my trusty eVGA GTX 570 is working again.

Thanks for all the info and tips (and 90 minutes of youtube video's).
 
Glad you have had some success. Still looking to upgrade?

I ripped my 570 out and gave her a good clean now. Idle temps are down to 38*C currently
 
I am waiting for stock on the Zotac GTX 1060 AMP. Wootware said two to three weeks. :(
 
On the plus side you at least have a working card to see you through.

The waiting sucks though!
 
wabbit16 said:
On the plus side you at least have a working card to see you through.

The waiting sucks though!
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Jip, maybe I should only game as soon as I get the new card. Just so I am not cut off from the net until then. :)
 
!@#$%^&*()

There it starts again.

Guess I'll have to get a cheapy somewhere to pull me through. :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:
 
If his P8P67 is anything like my P8P67-M then I don't think it has onboard VGA
 
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