6800nu

[cueball]

I just recieved my PNY 6800NU OEM from newegg 2 hours ago and my desktop icons are garbled and at times my whole desktop . I played CSS&BF2 with no artifacts or reboots . I also heard something fall out of the plastic container that the card was in and noticed that the end of the slot on the card was sticking through the plastic. I didnt see any physical damage to the card though .

 

[daveybrat]

sounds like a capacitor broke/fell off the card. You will more than likely have to RMA the card back to newegg.

 

[cueball]

Yeah I figured thats what it was since I read of a few other reports of pny 6800's with broken capictors . You think newegg would charge me the 15% restocking fee if I decided to go with a different brand of 6800? The 2d with this card is so blurry and I have read other reports of PNY being lousy with 2d.

 

[cueball]

Well the card seems to be working fine now in my new PC which is a 3000venice and a 9NDA3J. Im getting no garbled icons or other problems . Im a little lost as to if I should RMA it do to the fact that I found the piece that I heard fall and seen where its missing on the card. Heres a pic of what fell off PIC. So should I RMA it? I think the garbled icons could of been an issue with my via motherboard.

 

[k1114]

One fell off of mine too. If you look at the screw hole on the left side in the middle, there are a series of resistors to the left (big - medium - big) the one closest to the screw hole was just rattling around in the box.

Of course I didin't realize this until after I had already been testing the card. It didn't unlock but it seems to be ok in all tests, so I decided to go ahead and keep it. I soldered back on the loose part and reinstalled the card.

 

[superfly27]

There's a thread about PNY on the second or third page of the video card section in the hardforum. Those were complaints about their old Ti4200. I feel sorry for people who buy PNY.
I would return it and try to find a model like Gigabyte or Asus etc. I'm not an expert, but at least those two have good comments.