Motherboard killing graphics card?

[w0rmh0lez]

Hello guys!

So I have a Asus Rampage IV Formula motherboard with a Silverstone Strider Gold 1000w PSU.

I orgionally had an R9 290x which died after 3 days of having it. I switched it for 2 7970s in crossfire which the first one died after about 3 days of owning it and the second died after a week. I figured at this point that the power supply might be doing this so I took it to a computer repair shop and had then test all of the rails for any power fluctuations. They said the power supply passed with flying colors and was okay. I asked them what could be the culprit in this case and they told me that either it can be the socket that's bad or the motherboard itself might be killing the cards.

I also have a PCIE SSD on my system which is running fine but I sometimes experience blue screen errors.

So what do you guys think?

Thank you!!

 

[swifty_morgan]

list specs/

 

[w0rmh0lez]

Okay my CPU is a 3970x, Ram is Kingston Hyper X 4x4 16 GB ttotal, motherboard is Asus rampage IV formula, boot drive is OCZ Revodrive 3 240GB, storage driver is Hyperx SSD 480GB, PSU is Silverstone 1000w gold rated, I've got 5 120mm fans running at 1150 rpm, 2 pumps, both CPU and GPUs are water cooled. The cards were installed in the first and second slot and the Revodrive was installed in the last slot. Never over clocked either. I could never keep my system together long enough to get into it.

 

[babachicken]

it maybe that your motherboard is supplying unstable power via the PCI-e slots to the GPUs

 

[swifty_morgan]

I would pull as much power hungry stuff as possible just to get it going............ ( that revo drive..... one of the old ones they had all kinds of problems with?)......... check your raid driver ( intel is it ) won't play nice with some things. make sure it's disabled. last BIOS update was when?

 

[w0rmh0lez]

@swifty_morgan What do you mean by pull power hungry stuff? It is a bit difficult for me to test things as its all water cooled. I mentioned the Revodrive because it is powered via the motherboard similar to the graphics cards. So I would think if it was the motherboard killing the cards then it would kill the Revodrive too no? But so far the only issues that I have seen with the Revodrive is 2 blue screen crashes randomly and also when I would be reading from it there would be a coil whine. I haven't updated the bios at all because like I've said I haven't had my system together for more then 3 days at a time so haven't gotten around to it. All drivers are up to date however.

 

[swifty_morgan]

if you can get into the bios you can flash it.

do you have an old hard drive at your disposal?.......... pull all your sdd's and dump the drive in.

and did you try a cmos reset?