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Suspicious Zotac 1080ti. Defective too.

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I purchased 3 Zotac 1080ti and it arrived yesterday. Of the 3, one of them had a different seal compared to the other two. (see pictures. one had a round Zotac seal while the other had a rectangular plain one) Opening the box, the cables were arranged differently, and the 1080ti was missing the protective plastic over the gpu. It felt like someone had used it before.

The next problem came. That single gpu had problems. Whenever the nvidia drivers were installed, the display just blacks out and the whole pc wouldnt respond. Only a reset button can fix it. And even so, I would get a display unless I boot into safe mode and use DDU to uninstall the drivers.

First thing I thought, is it a triple sli problem? Or is my motherboard dying. So I removed that particular gpu and the other 2 cards would boot just fine. Drivers worked too. Okay, let me just use that single problematic card. No display.

Put all 3 cards in. Connected the displayport to the other 2 working gpus. Booted fine and works. Did a stress test on all 3 gpus anddddddddd....... BSOD. Blue screen no after a minute.

I have already contacted the supplier which I bought from, and they are going to do an RMA for me. Just a heads up if your newly purchase gpu might have been opened before!

Posted Jan 5, 2018, 5:00 PM UTC

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