Question Is my GPU failing?

[Oldeback]

The last couple of months i've experienced many games crashing for no reason. And i'm suspecting my old GTX 1080 TI is failing me.

I've been trying out different solutions to find out if this is the case, and i have no idea if this could actually be the GPU or rather the PSU that gone bad. or something completely else for that matter.

This is how it acts and the different clues i found out:

I experience alot of crashes both in high end games and not so high end games. the crashes are never a full restart, it's just softwares shutting down or stops responding.

• The indie game Frostpunk crashed around 1 min into the game, until i turn down the settings to low. then it works for longer periods of times but still crashing now and then. I then found out that locking/lowering the max fps in my nvidia settings for the game, make it run fine even on ultra graphics. A single crash might appear after hours.
• The game Cyberpunk 2077 is crashing on startup for about 10 times in a row, until the 11th time or so it runs fine with no issues for hours. Then a single crash might appear.
• Same thing with Palworld, crashing 1 minute into the game, putting low settings helps but still crashes after a while. the fixed fps did nothing. But i noticed that if i underclock my core clock with about -45 mhz in MSI afterburner. it runs fine for hours.
• I tried Heaven benchmark, and it just manage to benchmark for about a minute and then always crashing the software.

What i've come up with after searching for answers is that it might not be the GPU but instead might be the PSU? (link to my corsair psu)
Very happy to hear any input about what you think is happening.

 

[Lutfij]

When posting a thread of troubleshooting nature, it's customary to include your full system's specs. Please list the specs to your build like so:
CPU:
CPU cooler:
Motherboard:
Ram:
SSD/HDD:
GPU:
PSU:
Chassis:
OS:
Monitor:
include the age of the PSU apart from it's make and model. BIOS version for your motherboard at this moment of time.

 

[futureman 101]

I've been having similar problems with my 1060. It's good to check your relibility monitor for feedback.

I've also had BSOD TDR failures, had tried clean install of drivers going back two, but when I went back to ninth previous it's working.

 

[helper800]

The last couple of months i've experienced many games crashing for no reason. And i'm suspecting my old GTX 1080 TI is failing me.

I've been trying out different solutions to find out if this is the case, and i have no idea if this could actually be the GPU or rather the PSU that gone bad. or something completely else for that matter.

This is how it acts and the different clues i found out:

I experience alot of crashes both in high end games and not so high end games. the crashes are never a full restart, it's just softwares shutting down or stops responding.

• The indie game Frostpunk crashed around 1 min into the game, until i turn down the settings to low. then it works for longer periods of times but still crashing now and then. I then found out that locking/lowering the max fps in my nvidia settings for the game, make it run fine even on ultra graphics. A single crash might appear after hours.
• The game Cyberpunk 2077 is crashing on startup for about 10 times in a row, until the 11th time or so it runs fine with no issues for hours. Then a single crash might appear.
• Same thing with Palworld, crashing 1 minute into the game, putting low settings helps but still crashes after a while. the fixed fps did nothing. But i noticed that if i underclock my core clock with about -45 mhz in MSI afterburner. it runs fine for hours.
• I tried Heaven benchmark, and it just manage to benchmark for about a minute and then always crashing the software.

What i've come up with after searching for answers is that it might not be the GPU but instead might be the PSU? (link to my corsair psu)
Very happy to hear any input about what you think is happening.

Personally, the first thing I would do is use DDU to remove your current Nvidia driver and reinstall the latest version that is supported by the 1080 ti. Then check to see if this fixed the issue. If not, then I would either assume that the card is dying or the games you are playing are running into compatibility issues with the GPU/Drivers of the card. If it is compatibility or dying the solution is the same, get a new graphics card.

 

[Oldeback]

Thanks for your replies. I actually did a full uninstall with display driver uninstaller (DDU) software before this hoping to fix it. But all of the problems i stated still remains after that.