Question Defective RTX 3080

[Nachmanowicz]

So I got an Gigabyte RTX 3080 10GB Gaming OC. And it booted up the first time and soon after screen went black. I live in Brazil and already tried the warranty, to no avail.
After that I couldnt boot it up. I took it to a technician. He found out that every once in a while the gpu does boot up. And when it does, it works fine. He thought it was a BIOS issue. He opened the card to check it, and flashed the bios. I got it back, it was working but I didnt have time to use the PC. A few days later I booted it up and tried getting the memory on XMP and it failed to boot. So I thought the memory was screwed up. I even had a friend bring me another set of memory sticks. But to my amazement, it wasn't the memory, it was the GPU that wasnt booting up. It is dual bios and neither would work. I sent it back to the technician. He can boot it up sometimes, and it works. But he has flashed it 2 times and it still won't work proper. A lot of times it won't boot, that is.

He thinks it is a chip problem. He said he's tested the memory and he doesn't think the bios chip is defective. But when it does boot, he can run furmark on it for over an hour with no problems.

Freaking out here.

 

[sizzling]

Sounds like a faulty card. Can you not return it to where you bought it? Why did they say this wasn't covered by the warranty?

 

[Nachmanowicz]

It appears the invoice/receipt was bogus. I can't use the warranty.

 

[norcalsc]

i have had cards that displayed this same behavior. sometimes no display, sometimes display. as mentioned above, it's likely faulty unfortunately

 

[Nachmanowicz]

Yeah, but where? Is it repaireable?

 

[jnjnilson6]

Yeah, but where? Is it repaireable?

Is it possible for you to put the card in another computer and test it? It would be interesting to see whether there'd be synonymous results.

Don't worry about the card; I mean such things happen sometimes with hardware. Hell, even the RTX 4090 ended up leaving innumerable customers in the lurch due to faulty connectors.

It's sometimes a flick of the dime. You may get expensive and less powerful components and have no problem running a machine and at the same time you may get the most powerful components and have problems. It's almost surreal whether or not things will go well. And we've all had that one setup which turned out nearing a nightmare.

Now, if the card prevents other computers from running normally and the problem surely arises from somewhere within it, it'd be best, perhaps, to (if applicable for you) get a cheap card for now and work with it until you are able to get another enthusiast GPU. The more you wait the bigger and better the assortment of newer GPUs on the market will be. So in the end, and with time, you may end up getting something much newer and more powerful. I would, personally, say the best vendors are Sapphire for AMD and ASUS for Nvidia.

Wishing you luck in determining whether the problem is 100% from the GPU and if possible managing to repair it further up in time! 👍

 

[Nachmanowicz]

I have two pcs at home. The GPU is the weak link. It runs just fine with my 1080 ti. I tried at my other PC too which is now running a 6500XT.

 

[Nachmanowicz]

The technician said he can't help me =(