I recently purchased a used RTX 3070 from a miner on ebay (I asked him about the conditions the card was in and the info he gave was fine as far as I can tell, the card itself was also visually fine). I've been using it now for about 2 weeks with 0 issues - it does fine in all the benchmarks I ran like furmark and heaven though I only ran those for less than 30 mins each which is probably too short and I will test for longer sometime soon.
Today however my monitor suddenly lost signal while playing Rainbow 6 Siege and I lost audio. With holding the power button to force shutdown not doing anything, I had to flick my power supply switch off and on then turn the pc on multiple times (took 4 attempts before it finally booted up). After that the same thing happened after 5 minutes but this time I was simply browsing forums. Again I restarted after multiple psu switch flicks and the system booted but the same issue happened after about 5 minutes of browsing forums (same as the previous time).
I then took out the card and put in my old GTX 1060 to see if any issues arose and after using my system for 30 minutes there were no problems. I then reinstalled my 3070 and it has now been running unigine heaven for 30 minutes with no problems.
This is somewhat confusing and may have just been a seating problem (though I reseated the 3070 and its pcie cables multiple times before testing with my 1060), however my ebay buyer protection for the 3070 will only have me covered for another 2 weeks so I'd like to identify whether the previously described problem is an issue with the card itself or something else? How would I go about doing this and what are potential culprits here?
System specs:
CPU: Ryzen 5 5600 with stock cooler
GPU: MSI RTX 3070 Gaming X Trio
RAM: Corsair vengeance LPX ddr4 2x8gb (16gb) 3200mhz
PSU: Corsair TX650m
Appreciate any help!
Today however my monitor suddenly lost signal while playing Rainbow 6 Siege and I lost audio. With holding the power button to force shutdown not doing anything, I had to flick my power supply switch off and on then turn the pc on multiple times (took 4 attempts before it finally booted up). After that the same thing happened after 5 minutes but this time I was simply browsing forums. Again I restarted after multiple psu switch flicks and the system booted but the same issue happened after about 5 minutes of browsing forums (same as the previous time).
I then took out the card and put in my old GTX 1060 to see if any issues arose and after using my system for 30 minutes there were no problems. I then reinstalled my 3070 and it has now been running unigine heaven for 30 minutes with no problems.
This is somewhat confusing and may have just been a seating problem (though I reseated the 3070 and its pcie cables multiple times before testing with my 1060), however my ebay buyer protection for the 3070 will only have me covered for another 2 weeks so I'd like to identify whether the previously described problem is an issue with the card itself or something else? How would I go about doing this and what are potential culprits here?
System specs:
CPU: Ryzen 5 5600 with stock cooler
GPU: MSI RTX 3070 Gaming X Trio
RAM: Corsair vengeance LPX ddr4 2x8gb (16gb) 3200mhz
PSU: Corsair TX650m
Appreciate any help!