Hello people of the palace
Don’t you just luff it when everything goes right for a while and then the shit hits the fan again.
It looks like my gfx card is dead or dying (we have decided it cannot make up its mind, since it will work for while and then just constant crashes for 2 days in a row) and I need a new chair for my desk but using alternatives for now
I think mine might be going too. Recently at random moments the screen goes black and the gfx card fan goes to 100%. Restart and it works again, did go through a few restarts where it black screened once it showed the windows logo though.
Dude - that is what mine did, we have it now running in a windows 10 machine and it is fine - so that tells me that it is a windows issue - Nima also had a similar thing happen to him
So for me it was time to upgrade but if windows behaved I wouldn’t have updated
The issue is it starts like that crashes once in a while and then you will have the day from hell…It will crash non stop…No matter what PC you put it in until it goes in to the windows 10 and it works fine
Have you tried putting on new thermal paste by chance? I’ve had cards in the paste that started acting up, but new paste gave me a couple more years of life.
That is the only thing I havent tried, but I am scared of opening it up. We want to have it checked out properly because some of the soldering looks iffy
I just spent an hour cleaning the outside of it VERY carefully
Ya, a proper reflow could help squeeze some more life out of it. Or a reball, but that’ll cost a lot more…
What GPU is it?
Spams thread unapologetically
What GPU do you have?
A long lived HD5870. It plays Factorio and allows me to see MEW.
Hehe thanks for the help Grand Pooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooobah!
Much appreciated 
The chair for now is on hold I stole one out of our office storage unit 
That is one loyal graphics card.
Where are you based? I may have an RX 570 with your name on it.
Only a pleasure. I don’t want to steal @Ani’s thunder (this was all her idea), so I’ll wait for her to wake up for the details, but she will courier a card to you by Ani & Jake Express Courier Services.
You guys are special I hope you know that!
Hows the leg doing?
Also Thanks again
Any decent chair suggestions guys? Budget R2500 max, not a gaming chair - they work for a bit but not that comfortable if you are in it all day long.
No rush at the moment, I “borrowed a chair” from the office storage for the time being.
Bought one like this 3 years ago for R3200. Still goes strong and never looked back
for Karo. I have had 2. My first one had a problem with the gas canister and the back was faulty. They sent me a free gas canister, and that didn’t solve the other problem, so they sent me a replacement of a different model. 5 year warranty, and they honour it.
Highly recommended company and chairs.
You have met me are the seats nice and wide?
They have a large selection, they’ll have something. Might be hard to find something in your price range though…
I will rather save an extra month or 3 and get something better
Here to officially report that @Wyvern 's parcel is en route to Cape Town via Jake’s (Slow) Express Courier (And Cuddle) Services. Card has arrived at the holding facility in Bloemfontein where it will sit for 4 days while Jake does other things 
