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    R9 290x GPU Dead?

    Hi everyone, just got a R9 290x. I checked the main rails and seemed the resistances were present, then I connected it to the test bench and found 12v - 5V - 3.3V - 1.8V - 0.8V present. Forgot to mention the card was probably water cooled, came as you see in the picture with some coating probably to protect the components from condense (?) I am not an expert. Anyway no image is shown and apparently not even the System is booting. When the system is booting usually my keyboard light up but it does not when the card is on. Tried to not connect the two 8 pins or to connect only one, the system seems to boot but no image and the gpu does not get hot. Then I thought to take a closer look at the gpu because there was still lots of thermal paste and found two corners kind of crushed and around the frame this liquid metal balls. Not sure if the balls are liquid metal used to cool the card or comes from overheating in the area, now, I am not an expert in graphic card repair but I believe the GPU is gone. What do you think? Thanks for any reply I am still learning and every case is very educative.

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    Re: R9 290x GPU Dead?

    Water-cooled? Aren't those coating stuffs used for extreme overclocking with liquid nitrogen? I am not nearly an expert either, just started learning but if what this guy says is anything to go buy, I would say the core (GPU) is dead.

    https://youtu.be/P_NS_SGqU8k?t=388
    Last edited by Hachune; 11-13-2022, 08:32 AM.

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      Re: R9 290x GPU Dead?

      Originally posted by Hachune View Post
      Water-cooled? Aren't those coating stuffs used for extreme overclocking with liquid nitrogen? I am not nearly an expert either, just started learning but if what this guy says is anything to go buy, I would say the core (GPU) is dead.

      https://youtu.be/P_NS_SGqU8k?t=388
      You are right, it's a kind of liquid coating for extreme LN overclock. For some silly reason, I didn't think that also GPUs can be overclocked with LN.

      Yeah at the end I think it's completely dead.



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