Question RTX 2080 Ti Crashing

[mxwll155]

So here's the hardware:

Gigabyte RTX 2080 Ti (Bought refurbished from Newegg about a month ago)
AMD Ryzen 2600X
16Gb TridentZ 3200 MHz
ASUS ROG STRIX X470 Gaming-I
EVGA SuperNOVA 850 G3 80+ Gold
AXM 2798 Monitor

Everything listed was purchased within a year ago.

Here's my problem:

I can play WoW, Heroes of the Storm, several steam games, and Skyrim SE with 200+ mods - most of which are intense graphics mods - with no problem.
Recently I wanted to see how Anthem and The Division 2 looked in 1440p since I just bought the GPU and Monitor within the last month to enjoy high resolution gaming. This is where I have problems. As soon as either game loads, my monitor gives me the "no signal" symbol and goes to sleep. I looked this up and discovered it's my GPU crashing and that the most common cause is a bad PSU. I've had this PSU for exactly one year, it's very high quality and ran both of these games no problem when I had a GTX 1080 just over a month ago. But just in case, I took out the PSU and swapped in new VGA power cables between the PSU and GPU. Still nothing. Next I uninstalled my NVIDIA drivers and performed a clean install, then got MSI Afterburner and set my GPU power limit to 120% - I also have my NVIDIA Control Panel Power Options set to maximum performance. Nothing fixes the issue.

I'm left wondering if Newegg sold me a bad RTX 2080 Ti. It was a $900 refurbish. Does anyone have any other ideas?

 

[norcalsc]

have you tried different monitor cables?

 

[mxwll155]

have you tried different monitor cables?

So that kind of fixed it. I use 2 monitors, the 1440p uses displayport and my old 1080p uses HDMI. Switching the primary monitor to HDMI kept the monitor on and the game launched in a small windowed mode. After setting the proper resolution and framerate, I can switch the displayport in while the game is running. However, I still can't launch the game with the displayport plugged in. Is there any way to fix this?

Also, I've tried using just the one 1440p monitor with the displayport plugged in and disconnecting the 1080p monitor before launching the game, and it still crashes the GPU.