- Nov 8, 2018
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Hello everyone,
As the title reads, I recently got a GPU (Card in question is a Gigabyte RTX 2080 Super Gaming OC) for free from my cousin as it seemed to have an issue seemingly out of no where after he came back after 3 weeks of not being home. He tried playing Genshin and it kept on black screening after a minute, sometimes even less.
Any kind of 3D load on stock settings makes the system black screen and forces the GPU fans to go 100%, audio continues to play in the background however.
As far as I understand, it's either the Core (highest likelihood), or the VRM's. VRAM is perfectly fine as it has no issues with artifacting.
On desktop or 2D /3D very light games, it works fine. But if I try and play Far Cry 5, EFT, basically anything harder to run than osu!, it black screens and needs to be power off.
Only way I've gotten it to run the higher load games is to neuter the Core clock to -650MHz and Power limit down to 60% via EVGA Precision X1.
Aside from that, main reason I believe it's the Core dying is due to the fact it had never been repasted or maintained in any other way aside from dusting it out once in a while (a year or more) since it was bought back in 2019. Before repasting it, I downclocked the GPU and ran Furmark, which almost immediately made the temps shoot to 88C, at that point I switched it off and went ahead with repasting and cleaning the card, temps dropped down to 60-70C under load, but whenever it reached close to 180-200W power draw, it would black screen.
His PC has a Corsair RMx 750W PSU, mine has a TX 550W. So it's not a power delivery related issue as his PC is running fine on my current GPU (EVGA GTX 1080 SC). Reset Bios and reinstalled drivers and it did nothing, so it's definitely a hardware issue.
Is this GPU worth attempting to fix? Is there anything I missed that might be causing the issue?
As the title reads, I recently got a GPU (Card in question is a Gigabyte RTX 2080 Super Gaming OC) for free from my cousin as it seemed to have an issue seemingly out of no where after he came back after 3 weeks of not being home. He tried playing Genshin and it kept on black screening after a minute, sometimes even less.
Any kind of 3D load on stock settings makes the system black screen and forces the GPU fans to go 100%, audio continues to play in the background however.
As far as I understand, it's either the Core (highest likelihood), or the VRM's. VRAM is perfectly fine as it has no issues with artifacting.
On desktop or 2D /3D very light games, it works fine. But if I try and play Far Cry 5, EFT, basically anything harder to run than osu!, it black screens and needs to be power off.
Only way I've gotten it to run the higher load games is to neuter the Core clock to -650MHz and Power limit down to 60% via EVGA Precision X1.
Aside from that, main reason I believe it's the Core dying is due to the fact it had never been repasted or maintained in any other way aside from dusting it out once in a while (a year or more) since it was bought back in 2019. Before repasting it, I downclocked the GPU and ran Furmark, which almost immediately made the temps shoot to 88C, at that point I switched it off and went ahead with repasting and cleaning the card, temps dropped down to 60-70C under load, but whenever it reached close to 180-200W power draw, it would black screen.
His PC has a Corsair RMx 750W PSU, mine has a TX 550W. So it's not a power delivery related issue as his PC is running fine on my current GPU (EVGA GTX 1080 SC). Reset Bios and reinstalled drivers and it did nothing, so it's definitely a hardware issue.
Is this GPU worth attempting to fix? Is there anything I missed that might be causing the issue?
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