Ranfoxconn
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| System Name | White Wolf Tengu |
|---|---|
| Processor | Ryzen 5 1600 (OC - 3.7GHz) |
| Motherboard | Gigabyte Aorus X470 Ultra Gaming |
| Cooling | Cooler Master Hyper 212 LED |
| Memory | Kingston HyperX Fury 2133MHz (OC - 2666MHz) |
| Video Card(s) | EVGA GTX 1080 FTW2 |
| Storage | WD Black 1TB |
| Display(s) | 1xLG 1920x1080 1xLG 1600x900 |
| Case | Thermaltake Versa H22 Plus |
| Audio Device(s) | Philips HTS3544 |
| Power Supply | EVGA Supernova NEX650G |
| Mouse | Corsair Scimitar Pro RGB |
| Keyboard | Magicforce 68 Key |
| Software | Windows 7 Ultimate |
So this is something that's been making me wonder. I just want to preface by saying that I did RMA the dead card and I now have a replacement. I just want some ideas as to why the old card died.
On the Fourth of July I was playing DOOM with my GTX 1080 FTW2 at 1080p. No problems there as one might expect. After I was done, I listened to music and browsed facebook for a bit. Not long after I started doing that, my system shut down and the temperature lights on the card were all red with the card itself quite hot to the touch.
I decided to let the system cool down thinking that somehow the 1080 overheated. After about half an hour I tried starting the system up again, but the system wouldn't post, with my motherboard giving a VGA error and the temperature LEDs on the card were still red. I decided to switch out my card for my HD 7850 and GTX 970 just to make sure that somehow my motherboard wasn't at fault. They worked fine. I took the 1080 to another system and the same thing happened. The temperature lights all lit up red and the system wouldn't boot. I called EVGA and they immediately set me up with an RMA. A week or two later I got my new 1080 which is working just fine, at least for the time being.
My question is, what exactly happened to my old 1080? I never took the card apart, never messed around with the fan profiles, and I never overclocked it. Could it be that the fans died and the card cooked to death somehow? Or did it just die because the chip was bad? I did have the power option in the nvidia settings set to 'adaptive' and the card's bios was set to the 'Master' bios instead of the 'Slave' so the fans weren't always spinning. I called EVGA about this though they told me that the RMA department didn't know why it did, all they knew was that it just simply failed. I just really want to know what killed the card so that I can hopefully prevent this from happening again.
On the Fourth of July I was playing DOOM with my GTX 1080 FTW2 at 1080p. No problems there as one might expect. After I was done, I listened to music and browsed facebook for a bit. Not long after I started doing that, my system shut down and the temperature lights on the card were all red with the card itself quite hot to the touch.
I decided to let the system cool down thinking that somehow the 1080 overheated. After about half an hour I tried starting the system up again, but the system wouldn't post, with my motherboard giving a VGA error and the temperature LEDs on the card were still red. I decided to switch out my card for my HD 7850 and GTX 970 just to make sure that somehow my motherboard wasn't at fault. They worked fine. I took the 1080 to another system and the same thing happened. The temperature lights all lit up red and the system wouldn't boot. I called EVGA and they immediately set me up with an RMA. A week or two later I got my new 1080 which is working just fine, at least for the time being.
My question is, what exactly happened to my old 1080? I never took the card apart, never messed around with the fan profiles, and I never overclocked it. Could it be that the fans died and the card cooked to death somehow? Or did it just die because the chip was bad? I did have the power option in the nvidia settings set to 'adaptive' and the card's bios was set to the 'Master' bios instead of the 'Slave' so the fans weren't always spinning. I called EVGA about this though they told me that the RMA department didn't know why it did, all they knew was that it just simply failed. I just really want to know what killed the card so that I can hopefully prevent this from happening again.
