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Need advise troubleshooting my graphics card. It's a preowned 3080 that was only a few months old when I got it in 2022.
Since the start of 2023 my PC would 1) crash because of games it could handle fine before, 2) reboot at random or 3) drop the signal to the monitor but everything stayed running. Checked logs, I think these were 0x116 bugchecks that for some reason weren't giving me a proper blue screen but turned my whole shit off. 2 months ago it started giving me a garbled screen; all of these issues besides the crashing happen at random when nothing graphically intense is running. Is it actually failing? I obviously don't want to replace a card I just got. My build only has a 750w PSU powering this thing but if it was a power issue wouldn't I notice as soon as the first boot?
edit: Adding that the thing always had bad coil whine, it basically screams when running anything at 120+ FPS
seri0us said:
I knew a retard who would mine cards into the ground and sell them once they started to die. Not too sure what happened when the buyers complained, he never liked to talk about that part.
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How long does that take? I half suspected this happened to my gpu but it's a model of 3080 that's apparently shit to use for mining.
 
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cybertoaster said:
You mean "my wife's son"?
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to be fair dude's apparently 20, so the "raising someone else kid" cuckmeme doesn't really apply anymore.

BroccoliBrainMkII said:
Need advise troubleshooting my graphics card. It's a preowned 3080 that was only a few months old when I got it in 2022.
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did you get the receipt? might still be in warranty, or at least able to RMA it.
one of the reasons I don't like buying used.
 
ZMOT said:
did you get the receipt? might still be in warranty, or at least able to RMA it.
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I bought it on Ebay so I only have the digital invoice. Just checked the serial, it's a pleasant surprise to find out this card from 2021 has a warranty that expires in 2025.
 
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cybertoaster said:
I thought they undervolted and underclocked these because it made no difference to run all max during mining? how you destroy these besides running 24/7?
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That's the people who at least somewhat know what they're doing. Fwiw I've seen videos on YT with miner cards that were taken care of holding up just fine against same/similar models
 
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seri0us said:
That's the people who at least somewhat know what they're doing. Fwiw I've seen videos on YT with miner cards that were taken care of holding up just fine against same/similar models
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Link to those videos? I need a good list of things to look at when buying a miner card to know its know shot to hell.
 
cybertoaster said:
Link to those videos? I need a good list of things to look at when buying a miner card to know its know shot to hell.
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I'd guess if his motherboard is really really cheap, possibly an extended ATX desktop with only like 6 GPU slots?
when mining the number of cards matter more then squeezing efficiency out of fewer cards. And that's cost effective is you ensure our cards have resale value.
Ensure you have contact information for the seller so you can demand a refund and make his life stressful if he doesn't.
 
Betonhaus said:
I'd guess if his motherboard is really really cheap, possibly an extended ATX desktop with only like 6 GPU slots?
when mining the number of cards matter more then squeezing efficiency out of fewer cards. And that's cost effective is you ensure our cards have resale value.
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Nah I'm buying over ebay from guys selling cards that have already been removed and (supposedly) cleaned and tested, no way I'm gonna buy an entire mining rig with like 10 cards on it.
Betonhaus said:
Ensure you have contact information for the seller so you can demand a refund and make his life stressful if he doesn't.
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Most miners I seen are shady shits, that's another thing that worries me. Others are fucking normies who just bought into the hype and got their rigs pre-assembled and ready to go so they have no idea about the cards and think they can charge you brand-new MSRP for them.
 
cybertoaster said:
Most miners I seen are shady shits, that's another thing that worries me. Others are fucking normies who just bought into the hype and got their rigs pre-assembled and ready to go so they have no idea about the cards and think they can charge you brand-new MSRP for them.
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Sold my 6700XT today with 2 1/2 yrs left on it for $200 bucks. Every message... 'whats wrong with it?' I said in the post I got a 7900XT. ' why is it so cheap?' I got a 7900XT for Starfield, like I said in the post. 'this feels like a scam'. SO DON"T BUY IT NIGGER GODDAMN. - pc guys have become just as bad as 'audiophiles' thinking their old garbage is worth what they bought it for because of inflation or rarity or something. I give someone a good deal on what is now crap to me that I don't need any more and they act like I am going to harvest their kidneys in the middle of the fucking night.
 
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ZMOT said:
the bigger question is what your airflow looks like, the best cooler can't do it's job properly if all it does is choke on hot air it can't get rid off. stock cooler usually is enough but requires a proper airflow compared to big brick coolers which contribute their own and are more tolerant.

also assuming you got rid of dust and other stuff.
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Yes. It's fairly bog standard. 2 fans in the front, exhaust out the back (I forget if it had a rear fan, and I was in there just last week).

Dust build up is minimal. The problem has been on going since I built it. It started when PS2 emulation would max out a single core on certain games and run poorly. Then on hotter days I put the heat problems down to the weather. In between all that, I'd sometimes get an overheat warning on restart if I'd just come off some intensive task like hours of video compression but it would be fine since it would never reach 90 degrees.

For all this time I had made the assumption it was just a bad choice of CPU, but it was when Remnant 2 would max out the temps and throttle that I started looking into it properly. Now I'm thinking the cooler is the problem. My GPU is fine temp wise despite having the M.2 directly under it, and this set up for airflow has never really been a problem in the past.

snov said:
Check the paste. Chances are the cooler itself is still fine.
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I'll do that. It's been a while since I built it, but I remember the paste being something of a non-issue (I think the stock cooler was pre-pasted, but don't quote me on that.)

I've never messed up pasting before, but if I'm spending £10 on paste, I'm tempted to get a new cooler to go with it since that's £25 for a cheap one, and £50 for a low end Noctua.


BPD Gunt Rider said:
I've sufficiently maxed out my Zen 3 build.

5600X
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By that standard, my build is also maxed.

I'd like to take my build further. My ideal is a powerful VR capable PC with AV1 encoding. The 5800x3d and whatever next gen GPU is good from AMD once AV1 becomes standard would be very nice to have. But ultimately it might not be needed since VR is a dying format and AV1 encoding can be achieved other ways. Like @The Ugly One I'm always tempted to move to small form factor specialized machines, but so far I've not been able to justify the cost and performance hit.
 
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Newegg has a really good deal going on right now for a 12900K + mobo deal:
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BroccoliBrainMkII said:
Need advise troubleshooting my graphics card. It's a preowned 3080 that was only a few months old when I got it in 2022.
Since the start of 2023 my PC would 1) crash because of games it could handle fine before, 2) reboot at random or 3) drop the signal to the monitor but everything stayed running. Checked logs, I think these were 0x116 bugchecks that for some reason weren't giving me a proper blue screen but turned my whole shit off. 2 months ago it started giving me a garbled screen; all of these issues besides the crashing happen at random when nothing graphically intense is running. Is it actually failing? I obviously don't want to replace a card I just got. My build only has a 750w PSU powering this thing but if it was a power issue wouldn't I notice as soon as the first boot?
edit: Adding that the thing always had bad coil whine, it basically screams when running anything at 120+ FPS

How long does that take? I half suspected this happened to my gpu but it's a model of 3080 that's apparently shit to use for mining.
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99% of the time computers do weird shit like this, it's a heat issue. I'd reapply thermal paste, see if that helps. Beyond that, I have no useful ideas.
 
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BroccoliBrainMkII said:
Need advise troubleshooting my graphics card. It's a preowned 3080 that was only a few months old when I got it in 2022.
Since the start of 2023 my PC would 1) crash because of games it could handle fine before, 2) reboot at random or 3) drop the signal to the monitor but everything stayed running. Checked logs, I think these were 0x116 bugchecks that for some reason weren't giving me a proper blue screen but turned my whole shit off. 2 months ago it started giving me a garbled screen; all of these issues besides the crashing happen at random when nothing graphically intense is running.
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You already mentioned that the card is still under warranty so that's good but problems like that can be caused by static electricity build-up. It's not common, it obviously shouldn't happen, and it is a complete nightmare to figure out because few would suspect that poor grounding and maybe a worn out fan are crashing games.
 
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Judge Dredd said:
Yes. It's fairly bog standard. 2 fans in the front, exhaust out the back (I forget if it had a rear fan, and I was in there just last week).
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better check, last time I had to turn of my back fan because it became loud it lead to a noticeable increase in temperature - and that was with a big brick cooler that already blew in the same direction, not a top-down fan that's more "stationary". might also worth checking which way it blows (or sucks) and where the hot air goes/comes from. since the CPU is almost always right below it that's where all the hot air goes (and then stays).
 
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