My GPU dying? Constant shadow flicker in Valheim and a few other games.

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Yoda can get bent:

This is what keeps me coming back to EVGA. They approved my RMA, have friggin DEDICATED RMA stock, and are shipping it to me first with collatoral being held from my store credit at the 2080 Supers MSRP value.

Oh, did I mention I was up front about the bios flashing and even admitted I may have clipped the PWM wires on the fans in order to force them to run at 100% at all times (stock software only pushes them to 90%?) in an attempt to mitigate the issue, and they were totally chill with it?

Granted, my experience may not be normal because I have a ton of credit with them and they "owe me one" from killing an expensive board and they know it, but still, they have always been awesome to work with in my experience. Hopefully the next product matches the service.

 

[nguyen]

Wow EVGA still has impeccable customer service, I remember I had to RMA 4 EVGA 7800GT when they all kept dying after 2 months due to badly designed VRAM voltage controller. Each and every RMA, EVGA sent me a new card with free shipping label to return the bad ones. That's 10 out of 10 for customer service right there.

 

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Wow EVGA still has impeccable customer service, I remember I had to RMA 4 EVGA 7800GT when they all kept dying after 2 months due to badly designed VRAM voltage controller. Each and every RMA, EVGA sent me a new card with free shipping label to return the bad ones. That's 10 out of 10 for customer service right there.

Yeah if their products matched their service they'd really be hard to pass up. As it is they seem to be hit and miss (not sure about current gen but they have had incidents with VRMs, cooling etc as you said), but right now I don't really have a lot of options, so...

 

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I am tempted to report this for disturbing content.

 

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I recieved my RMA card today.

It's a refurb, and not the best clocker, but in this pandemic I can excuse all those things for the fact they were able to friggin get me a matching gpu that works. I mean if they were greedy they could've sold this thing for what, like a grand and a half? But they reserved it for RMA's. Kudos.

And yes, it works. No flicker weirdness or any artifacts whatsoever. And for a refurb, it looks darn near new. The part number and a small microscopic scratch on the plastic shroud is all that gives it away.

Considering I shipped them an "ebay special" version of the same card that I fully admitted had been bios flashed a few times, I'd say that is more than fair. Feels so nice not running a 1060 3GB at 1080p, and being able to use 4K again. All is well.

 

[A Computer Guy]

I recieved my RMA card today.

It's a refurb, and not the best clocker, but in this pandemic I can excuse all those things for the fact they were able to friggin get me a matching gpu that works. I mean if they were greedy they could've sold this thing for what, like a grand and a half? But they reserved it for RMA's. Kudos.

And yes, it works. No flicker weirdness or any artifacts whatsoever. And for a refurb, it looks darn near new. The part number and a small microscopic scratch on the plastic shroud is all that gives it away.

Considering I shipped them an "ebay special" version of the same card that I fully admitted had been bios flashed a few times, I'd say that is more than fair. Feels so nice not running a 1060 3GB at 1080p, and being able to use 4K again. All is well.

Is your 4K a FreeSync monitor? My wife's 1060 3GB has trouble putting her 4k (supports FreeSync) to sleep haven't been able to figure out why yet.

 

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Is your 4K a FreeSync monitor? My wife's 1060 3GB has trouble putting her 4k (supports FreeSync) to sleep haven't been able to figure out why yet.

It's an LG OLED, so sorta. HDMI VRR technically. Which won't work with pascal.

You may try starting your own thread. I'm sure someone might have a clue what's happening there, but I don't.