Question Trying to determine if new Asus TUF 5070 Ti is defective

[SuperChuchu]

Two days I received this card: https://a.co/d/fpOY56u

It seems to work just fine for the most part. I already rendered almost a thousand frames in Blender at 6000 samples each, and I spent about two hours playing different games that are very demanding, like F1 25 with path tracing enabled, and Forza Horizon 5.

Now, something happened about three times already that concerns me. I will be working in Blender and have a few other programs open, and at one point nothing will respond, except the mouse pointer. I can move it around all I want, and it's smooth, but everything else is completely unresponsive. The last time happened about ten minutes ago, and I typing this on my Mac, waiting for the PC to respond, but nothing happens.

As far as I remember, this has never happened on the same PC since I built it in January, when I had the Asus 4060 Ti 16 GB in it.

This is my motherboard: https://a.co/d/2GmcVXK and this is the power supply: https://a.co/d/4j8aRJo

The machine has 192 GB of this RAM: https://a.co/d/1mFof9f

Could these issues mean that the card is defective? Or do I maybe have to change something in the BIOS? The BIOS in this motherboard is massive, and the manual barely helps, because it basically tells you something useless like this or that other setting allow you to enable or disable this function, but it doesn't explain what the function is.

 

[skitz9417]

whats ur specs and how old is psu

 

[Lutfij]

What processor are you working with? What BIOS version are you on for your motherboard? Take out two of the ram sticks from the build leaving sticks in slots A2 and B2 and see if the issue persists.

You state getting your discrete GPU 2 days ago, did you run DDU to remove all GPU drivers(Intel, AMD and Nvidia) in Safe Mode, then manually installing the latest GPU driver in an elevated command, i.e, Right click installer>Run as Administrator?

 

[SuperChuchu]

whats ur specs and how old is psu

The specs that are important are in my post. Added to that, there are four 4 TB Samsung NVMe SSDs and an LG burner.

What processor are you working with? What BIOS version are you on for your motherboard? Take out two of the ram sticks from the build leaving sticks in slots A2 and B2 and see if the issue persists.

i9 14900 KF. BIOS is version 2001, the latest so far. As for messing with RAM sticks, definitely no. I'm not going to put pressure on the motherboard when there's no reason for it. The machine was working perfectly with the 4060 Ti, or at least to an extent that this sort of thing never happened. If the RAM had anything to do with this, it would've happened several times since I built the machine.

You state getting your discrete GPU 2 days ago, did you run DDU to remove all GPU drivers(Intel, AMD and Nvidia) in Safe Mode, then manually installing the latest GPU driver in an elevated command, i.e, Right click installer>Run as Administrator?

No, I didn't know DDU existed. I simply launched the Nvidia app and switched to the Game driver. If this happens again I will definitely do all that.