My upgrading nightmare (R.I.P. 1080 TI?)
These last two weeks have been an absolute headache, and it makes me wish I NEVER upgraded in the first place.
I had enough PC parts plus the components that I was using to justify a worthwhile upgrade, going from a 4790k to a 3900x. Of course this required a new mobo and ram, so I happily obliged. I felt like the 4790k was an ok pairing with my 1080 ti, but I had wanted to upgrade to a possible 3080 in the future and I didn't think it could do a decent job with any cards faster than what I had.I also knew there was a significant amount of table being left on the table, so screw it lol.
Long story short, a myriad of problems later after upgrading (which one of them might still be prevalent), I've come across one that's brought my ti into retirement, sadly. All my games crash 5-10 minutes with the card installed. I've DDU, reinstalling the latest drivers, re-seating the gpu, checking the connection with the headers, along with COUNTLESS solutions that include moving around, verifying, and deleting files.
Only when I break out my old 970 do these problems seemingly disappear...games play just fine, and a problem where my PC would shut off at random and reboot immediately disappear too. That issue I had attributed to the power supply, which I went out and REPLACED cause that's pretty much worst case scenario (that along with my gpu biting the dust lol). The computer would STILL shut down and reboot regardless. The problem only arises when I had the 1080 TI installed.
Anyways, you guys might need more information from what I provided but I had one last idea about why this is happening: maybe my psu isn't up to snuff? I have a 750 watt evga 80 + plus gold powering my whole set up, including 7 case fans, 2 hdds and an ssd plus rgb strips. I know it's highly rated and can handle a lot of watts, but is it possible that the computer just couldn't output enough power and was responsible for shutting down automatically? I had bought a 600 watt silver 80+ as the replacement, but both had PSU's had issues with the 1080 ti and not the 970.
I've just about given up on the ti tbh, it's sad cause I've had it for two years and now I have to put with the 970 until I can save up for the upcoming 3080 but hey...first world problems I guess lol. Any ideas?? If not, can I get an F to pay respects for the Ti? It was a trooper :'(
Posted Jul 18, 2020, 8:37 PM UTC
Try running cpu and mobo off one psu and 1080ti off the other if that does not work it is not the psu.
I do think its a power issues.
I would not think so either but try it
What about thermal and dust on the 1080ti, use hardware Z to monitor the temperature of the GPU. That might be also the reason.
Nice to see all the replies! The thermals on the 1080ti while in game look perfectly fine, when it starts to reach high 90s in utilization % it tops off around 72c. I've also taken out the 1080ti recently and cleared it of any dust, so I can rule those two out. The more I think about it, the more I'm wondering if its a power draw issue or actually something wrong with the gpu. I really wanna put it in another system to see if the same problems occur. My system runs smooth with the 970 installed, no reboots whatsoever or crashes in game. The only reason I haven't completely written off the gpu yet is because I haven't gotten any bsods, artifacts in game, screen glitches, etc. Like I said, I have a 750w evga gold psu so it's not like I'm skimping out on the power supply. I'm just wondering if all the other upgrades I've made recently with the 3900x, cooler, and case fans really affects the total system power draw to the point where my gpu taps out and either crashes the game or reboots my whole system.
That could be it too.