Quote from: RunnerUp on January 23, 2017, 08:15:55 PM

Question for all...

I have an issue I've never had before. I have 12 rigs running, half msi 480 x 6cards and half R9 Furys x 5cards. Two of my Fury rigs have some type of oily liquid leaking. It's coming from one of the cards on each rig. Ever since I switched to 11.1 and started messing with the intensity did I notice the leaking. I pulled the cards and am going to RMA them, was just wondering if anyone else has had this happen to them. The temps of the cards aren't even close to the max rated so I'm not sure what the cause is. The ambient temp in the room has been the same since I started mining 2ish months ago, fans blowing on all rigs.

Hey, its probably coming form the cooling fan bearing. A couple of years ago I had a couple of sapphire reference 7950's. they were on dual slots over under in a tower. The top one (which always runs hottest) dripped that smudgy fluid (grease or flux) out and down onto the 2nd card below it and shorted out the pcb circuit board due to where it was leaking out from above. After that card died, I looked at the one above and noticed a thin film of that horrid grease in and around the blower housing and fan itself. Long story short, they blamed me for spilling water or some liquid substance on it and would not honor the warranty. But they finally did come back after I had to become an Azzhole with them about it and gave me a new sapphire dual fan card for a discounted price,,, (which I still mine with to this day Grin

) and was the best they could do he said. However it was there crappy designed fans that were leaking.

I also do computer repair for a living..... it was the fan bearing grease of sorts.