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  1. Broken 3090 Guy

    Question GPU (RTX 3090) is suddenly underperforming in main PCI slot after cleaning and reinstallation

    Fixed it, lol... Somehow MSI Afterburner got set to tell the GPU to have the minimum power limit. Resetting this fixed it. (Imagine that, the limit-power slider limiting the power of the GPU!) ...In my defense, I never mess around with MSI Afterburner, so how this got changed I have no idea.
  2. Broken 3090 Guy

    Question GPU (RTX 3090) is suddenly underperforming in main PCI slot after cleaning and reinstallation

    Well crap. It worked for a night of gaming but now we're back to the same exact issue. What's worse: resetting the CMOS this time didn't fix it. It's still only getting 45% power. Ugh...
  3. Broken 3090 Guy

    Question GPU (RTX 3090) is suddenly underperforming in main PCI slot after cleaning and reinstallation

    Resetting the CMOS fixed it! (*Only for a time... see following message #5) For anybody stumbling upon this thread with a similar issue: On this motherboard, I just had to short two pins for a few seconds and did so using a screwdriver. Rebooting took a minute or so longer, but now the GPU is...
  4. Broken 3090 Guy

    Question GPU (RTX 3090) is suddenly underperforming in main PCI slot after cleaning and reinstallation

    I have the RMx Series™ RM750x — 750 Watt 80 PLUS® Gold Certified Fully Modular PSU. I bought it new from Corsair in August 2020, so I'm not sure if that'd make it a 2019 or 2020 model. I'll update the original post with that info. As for clearing the CMOS after verifying the BIOS.... I have no...
  5. Broken 3090 Guy

    Question GPU (RTX 3090) is suddenly underperforming in main PCI slot after cleaning and reinstallation

    (Posted in motherboard forum because this appears to most likely be a motherboard issue.) Hello there. My computer was due for a cleaning and I happened to remove my graphics card (an RTX 3090), dust it off with canned air, and reinstall it into the main PCI slot of my motherboard (MSI MPG X570...