Dead 570's (Have you killed yours?)

[yukss]

User: Yukss
Core Voltage: 1.075v
Clocks: 900/1800/2000
OCP/Power limit disabled: No
Load Temperature: 46C
VRM Cooling: EK waterblock
What you were doing: 3dmark 11

[NoGuru]

Still looks alive to me??????

[chispy]

Still looks alive to me??????

[sin0822]

As there seem to have been more than a few dead 570's, I'd like to collect some information.

Core Voltage:
Clocks:
OCP/Power limit disabled: (Y/N)
Load Temperature:
VRM Cooling:
What you were doing: (Gaming, benching, stress testing)

Here's mine:

Core Voltage: 1.212V (1.223 with DMM)
Clocks: 1100/1200
OCP/Power limit disabled: No.
Load Temperature: -40C
VRM Cooling: Stock unisink / cold from phase / fan
What you were doing: Running Vantage Performance





Here was my original post:

Well guys, got a 570 yesterday to play around with. I had one of my teammates do all the modding for me (I'm shameful with a soldering iron).

I was playing around with it yesterday and running some benches on air. I noticed that I was extremely limited in that there was absolutely no scaling above 1.15V. So tonight, I prepped the card for some subzero phase fun. Insulated it very well and booted in, idling at -50C.

So the first thing I did was kick the voltage up to 1.212V (max in software) to see how high I could get without adjusting the resistor for GPU voltage. I ran a quick stability test and made it up to 1100/1200. I decided to do a quick Vantage run and made it through both GPU tests and then crashed in the CPU test (). So I booted back up after adjusting my CPU in the BIOS and reset clocks.

Right after Miss Jane Nash showed her assests and dove onto the boatplanething, there was a bit of a pop, some smoke, and my computer restarted.

I turned it off and quickly dismantled my card. It had only been cold for about 10 minutes so there was absolutely no moisture at all.

Then I found my VRM's





Don't go over ~1.15V unless you add some phases!



Also, this isn't isolated to just me, check these links on OCN:

http://www.overclock.net/nvidia/9282...fried-gtx.html
http://www.overclock.net/nvidia/9141...-570-dead.html

hey can i borrow your picture? for my review, is that cool?

[bassplayer]

Absolutely. Sorry it's so out of focus! I took it with my iPhone.

[sin0822]

nah i just want an example of crappy inductors burning MOSFETs. GTX 570 GTX 590 perfect examples.

BTW thanks!

[elysion]

hi guys, sorry to chime in.
Just wanted to buy 2x Gigabyte GTX570 OC 1280MB (GV-N570OC-13I) and was looking to further OC the card to ~800 core, is it advisable?

Another choice would be 2x Palit GTX580 1536MB but I don't know Palit at all and I heard they have great OC potential too...

thanks for the advice...cheers

[DomagojX]

then better take 2 gtx580

[elysion]

then better take 2 gtx580

reason being? thanks mate

[Garrett]

I would advise 580s as well because the 570s seem to die pretty quickly... So would it justify the extra cost, imho yes

[sin0822]

yea, unless ti has a reworks VRM like some SOC cards do, then OCing a 570GTX too much isn't best idea. I had both of mine at 940 core in SLi and i was fine though. i only used 1.1v tho.

[sexsymbol]

Core Voltage: default
Clocks: default
OCP/Power limit disabled: N
Load Temperature: around 70C
VRM Cooling: default
What you were doing: gaming

Using TRI SLI MSI OC edition. Exactly same three cards. Only one of them died for now. No oc in the system and 1000HX Corsair PSU.

[elysion]

thanks, unfortunately went with one gigabyte 570 already but i am happy with it so far. did not buy a second one yet to go SLI cause i use FSX mainly so there is no advantage. lets see if i can OC it a bit more its a 780 clock already oc'ed version of gigabyte. thanks for this thread and its awareness for this card ;-)

[CedricFP]

I can't believe some of these cards are going kaput without any OC / voltage tweaking. That's insane!

[sexsymbol]

Of the three 570's I had one of them died, without any OC or voltage. It was the card situated in the lower part of the case, the one with the lowest temps.

[elysion]

i think i go 580 from EVGA now with 1.5GB at least I know what I am getting for the money,
I am very disappointed spending another 400 USD for a so called OC'ed version from Gigabyte and especially if it does not even work on stock voltage!
i don't get it really....cheers ;-)

[Punisher!]

Hmm been testing my cards at 1.213v on air. I think I'll back that off a bit now.

Tested my GTX580 with 1.213V stock cooling too... are GTX580s so dead risky too?