7445

Congrats Tim! Hope your fans spin!

I mean, I’m sure they will.

7446

If one of your 3 fans spins in the wrong direction, its defective, an I will buy it off you for full price. ;)

7447

I managed to get an Asus 3800 last Tuesday. Along side with my 3800 I also installed an EVGA 850 watt power supply (my other PSU was 650 watts).

Since thing things are been pretty smooth with two exceptions.

Incident #1:
On Wednesday I was playing Shadow of the tomb raider and after maybe 6 hours or so, I was in a in some menu looking at talent points trying to figure out what to spend points on when my computer suddenly rebooted. I thought there was a power failure or something, but I had not noticed any lights flickering or anything. I just heard some clicking right after my screen went black and it sounded like it was coming from my computer or perhaps the UPS (but that beeps when there is a power interruption).

Then everything has been fine until a few moments ago.

Incident #2: I use remote desktop to work and things have been fine all day. Then my main monitor goes black with a large white rectangle (perhaps the outline of the RDP client?) but my 2nd monitor is fine showing chrome from my normal desktop but not the RDP session. It seemed like my RDP client had crashed which has never happened before (after almost a year of use due to Covid).

Clearly this 2nd incident is very different than the first incident.

However, does anyone have an idea of what might be going on?
My ideas are from bad to worse:

  1. Buggy drivers, it is a new card after all.
  2. Buggy software although I can’t see how Shadow of the Tomb Raider can cause a reboot.
  3. Bad PSU
  4. Bad 3800 :(
7448

Lolol. Another scam brought to you by your steam friend, LK

7449

Mission complete. Unfortunately, my Bond girl is still at work. Too bad. For God and country, then.

Installing it will have to wait till tonight. Back to work myself.

7450

What game do you plan to play to visually stun yourself ?

7451

It’s possible incident 1 and incident 2 are unrelated – which is awesome for troubleshooting, of course.

The only data point I can offer is that my wife’s computer developed a bad PSU after years of gaming. We would play Borderlands 3 coop and it would cause her system to reboot within seconds to fifteen minutes of playing. It was odd that it was a new problem, and that it could take up to fifteen minutes to trip. I was quite convinced it wasn’t the PSU. Until I replaced the PSU and it fixed the problem.

Still, six hours seems like a long time for it to be the PSU.

Are you monitoring your thermals?

7452

I don’t have any diagnosis but I would start monitoring the GPU temp on the second monitor as soon as possible and see if there’s anything strange shows up.

7453

I played all day Friday - Sunday without any incidents.

7454

Do you know of a good tool to do this with?

7455

EVGA precision x, or whatever they call it.

https://www.evga.com/precisionx1/

At the top in the tool, there is a HWM tab.

7456

My AMD driver installed a control panel that lets me monitor the temperature of the card. I assume Nvidia has something similar.

7457

That tool looks good. It works for non-evga cards? My PSU is EVGA, my 3800 is Asus

7458

oh I got them mixed up, you want the Asus software then.

https://www.asus.com/event/VGA/GPU-Tweak-II/

I think the EVGA software will work also, just some features will be disabled.

7459

What is the normal / Maximum safe GPU temp? I have googled this, but I can’t seem to find a good answer. From other brands of cards, it seems like 85c is where it should throttle down clock speeds.

7460

For my 2080S, it throttles down at 84.

7461

Hah that’s one of the problems I was talking about a couple weeks ago. I’m not interested in any of the showcase games, so I’ll just play a few things at 144 FPS for the next week and wait patiently for Cyberpunk.

7462

You used 3800 about 5-6 times, but unless you’re on an old TNT2, I assume you mean 3080 not 3800?

7463

I installed the card. Unfortunately, it’s 0.1 dB above my noise threshold, so I have to sell it. Opening bid is $2500!

Seriously though, it’s been so long since I’ve played a modern game on my 1070ti that I can’t remember how loud it got to compare, and I can’t find any comparable benchmarks. I’m pretty sure it was quieter. This is an overclocked 3070 so maybe that has something to do with it. It’s not bad, I’m just spoiled rotten.

I also didn’t do a very good job capturing dedicated before-and-after benchmarks. From some spot checking it’s about double the performance. Uh, at least when it’s not pegged at 144 fps because I forgot to disable Vsync. I’m a terrible benchmarker.

The only head scratcher was when I used the Arkham Knight built-in performance test and only saw about 10% improvement. I’m pretty sure I captured my original number without GameWorks enabled because performance was so bad. Sorry, I’m no longer very scientific about these things.

The fun news is I also bought a Series X controller. It came with a Game Pass trial that seemed to work even though I’m a lapsed subscriber. Plus I got the free month for enabling automatic renewal. Are there any raytracing/DLSS showcase games on Game Pass?

7464

Wolfenstein Young Blood and Deliver Us The Moon are both RTX games, on gamepass.