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Okay same behavior as my own 3070. I questioned the same thing for weeks... even thought of changing my PSU. I have been running an RM750x since last year. I think you'll want to check and change thermal paste... Mine was dried off like stone age. I put some Kryonaut onto it, now it's flawless You should really check that out.

I mean, that was the max wattage I saw on HWMonitor while I played and stream some game. If you talk about GPU-Z, here is mine : My question is, how would you know if your card would ever reach 270W or not. How would you push it to the limit ? Okay this is what I got running Furmark : Why is the GPU power in HWMonitor only 210-220W, while the board draw is 265W on GPU-Z ? Yeah I figure, but I mean it feels good to have a big number after all

I thought the RMi starts at 750 ? I mean if I switch now I will not got lower than 750. I'm not gonna OC with this, I haven't changed any thermal pads, plus it's air cooling so it's gonna be challenging. Right now on stock it draws max 225W. Actually, if you look a bit in the comments, I said that I got this card second hand, by July 2021, so it should be at most 9 months from release, till now it should be more than a year, like a year and a half. Actually I have no idea what the previous owner did to it, but the moment I got the heatsink out, the thermal paste isn't a paste anymore. GA = Gigabyte Aye I haven't been back here for a while I forgot how to properly use LTT anymore !-!

I think you should check thermal paste. My personal take. Same behavior with my 3070. After putting some good Kryonaut on it, now it's flawless.

Dude you don't know how much this helps me even in 2022. I'm also surprised that the thread is not closed My 3070 was going black consistently even if I tune my card down very aggressively with afterburner. I followed your tip, got some good Kryonaut, and it wouldn't surprise nobody : the default thermal paste was dried out like stone age !! Now after I put the thermal paste on, it runs at stock and never exceeds 70C, average at 65C on high loads, no more crash, no more black screen. More importantly, it's almost inaudible the fan @@ I used to hear it ramps up when loading something heavy, now it's always the same, not noisy at all. Man thank you for sharing this. This should be the first thing to check on a card that has been used for long.

Right I found the culprit : Thermal paste !! I found another LTT thread with a guy with the same issue and he tried the simplest thing on earth : changing thermal paste. I did the same thing. I cleaned the all-dead-dried-out thermal paste by GA and put on some good thermal grizzly kryonaut. Now I run at stock without any issue at all. It's even better : I don't even hear the fan noise @@ I used to hear the fan ramping up when it loads some graphics, now it's almost inaudible @@ So great I could use my card almost brand new again ^_^

It would mean a lot if it's a CPU related problem...

It's one pair of GSkills and one pair of Corsair. And yes motherboard up to date

Yes, I have ddu-ed, reinstalled Windows and pretty much every soft solutions so far, like trying using an older driver etc... it won't cut it. About RMA... I can't, this is something I bought from somebody else, I don't have either box, or purchase note etc... Best thing I could do is trying reselling it, or give it to my brother. In both cases, I'm quite lazy hunting for a new card

Oops, that sounds sad

Hello, I've been using a Gigabyte RTX 3070 Gaming OC Rev 1.0 since July 2021. I like the performance so far, especially because I'm only playing 1080p144Hz. However I don't seem to be able to run it at 100%. I have to lower power limit in MSI Afterburner to 75% in order for it to not shut down half way when I play some quite demanding games, like FF7R. I don't seem to have found any stable custom OC profile either (I mean I do it myself). Even making a custom lower clock curve won't work. Memory OC is even worse. Every positive or negative clock will result in video driver issue, so I leave it at stock. I'm running on a Corsair RM750x since February 2021. Basically if I don't lower power limit, it will simply shut itself. No that's not correct, the display will simply go black, while everything is running, I can still hear sound but I cannot see anything. I'm pretty sure it's that the GPU shuts itself down, so I don't have image. It feels like for a brief moment the PSU cannot feed enough power that the GPU calls. Would you guys try going for a better PSU ? I've been hunting for people with similar issues and for some I found out they seeked for a more powerful PSU, like 1k W or something like that. I'm considering even going multi rails, opposed to my single rail unit. What do you think ? I'm gonna put some other details of my system : GA B550 Aorus Pro + 3700X + 32GB 3600MHz

So lately I found myself in the middle of having to take more than 1 call at a time. I had to use different devices so I can manage the input sound at a time so different calls won't get messed up, or I need to manually disable/mute at one of them at a time, which I found very annoying to say the least. I'm thinking of looting for myself a sound card or such a device that could do one of these: - Or, take in the input from one source (for example my G432), then I can make 2 virtual sources and I can switch between them with buttons (for example what is on, what is off, and when). - Or, take in inputs from different sources and then I can use one for each of my call and manage them individually, which is equally convenient (using buttons), which could be easier than virtual setup (which I will need another input device but not a big deal). I'm very new to the sound world, so it would be nice to hear the best advice from you, as to wheter my plan is good, and if so, would love to hear some suggestions, because I have no idea what I should buy (and possibly how to use them). Thank you very much and wish you all a great day ahead.

Tu as des points. Je ne suis pas très sûr de ce que je ressentirai lorsque j'utiliserai une machine qui pourrait accélérer plus qu'un PC, pour commencer, ce qui me fait assez peur. Mais je suppose qu'à un moment donné, je dois sacrifier un peu de performance de toute façon. Bon, je devrais juste éviter Huawei pour ne pas avoir de problèmes à l'avenir. Je pense que c'est une bonne décision. Je pense beaucoup au Précision, mais je ne sais pas si je vais devoir coder plus en déplacement ou si je vais rester à un endroit pour travailler plus. Si je dois me déplacer beaucoup et que je dois coder en déplacement, je choisirai probablement le XPS. Sinon, c'est le Précision qui s'impose. Mais je ne peux pas débattre de la durabilité du Précision. Je suis sûr qu'un châssis plus grand apportera toujours une meilleure durabilité globale. C'est incontestable.

I've been thinking a lot about dropping my PC and go for a laptop, because I don't actually have a fixed living place for more than half a year, and carrying a PC alongside with other stuffs is a true burden. I lived for about a year in the college dorm and the moment I had to move out, I almost died. Lately I don't even play games anymore so I don't think it's a big deal if I only have a laptop. I set my target price around 600-800 euros (I'm located in France). For the moment being I have found a few choices that I can pick up and which serve my choice pretty well. But I'm thinking a lot and I would like to know what you think too, this is a big shift in my life. It's like I've been using a PC for 3-4 years and now I'm going to stick to a laptop and I'm a bit worried about what might happen if I keep my laptop on 24/7 like my PC. Is it going to last just like a PC does? (Though I do upgrade my PC like, annually). - XPS 9380 with 8GB RAM/512GB SSD: This is very mobile, and it's got 4 cores (I like), but it has only 8GB RAM and it's not upgradable. Do you think I have to worry too much about RAM? - XPS 9350 with 16GB RAM/1TB SSD: Again, a mobile machine, but this time around only an i7 76600U with 2cores, but it got 16GB RAM (sweet). - Precision 5510 with i7 6820HQ/16GB/512GB: Now this is hell of a machine, it looks nice but I'm questioning myself Do I need that quadro card? Is it going to consume lots of battery? Is this too huge to carry around? - Huawei Matebook R5 14 with R5 4600H/16GB/512GB: Now this comes with a very nice CPU and spec wise is nice too, it also got a very nice panel. Only question I'm wondering is that is it going to be difficult to tinker with the software? Aka bios settings, and what if I want to install different OSes, how easy/difficult is it to work with the settings? I never owned a Huawei machine before and for the record I know some specific models of laptop (not necessarily Huawei) come with very abysmal bios settings ability. -- I've been glancing at a few gaming models, such as the new Acer Nitro 5 with R5 4600H, but again, like the Precision, I'm worried about mobility. About my workflow, I used to do some Deep Learning stuff but I think I'm not going to do it for a very long time. Now I'm doing software development so I'm pretty sure a giant GPU like the 1080Ti I'm owning is not a must. Now I'm more into web development, MERN stack and also C/C++. I'm not doing Virtulization. Now a few questions are dancing in my mind: 1. Do you think I REALLY have to ascend and say goodbye to my PC? Or should I try to stick to it and try to move it with me anyway. For the record I also had the same thought a few months back but I ended up keeping the whole thing and not switching. 2. Do you think 15 inch laptops like those above are too much of a burden when moving around? I'm 5'4" tall and I weigh 56kg. For the record I used to own an MBP 15 inch late 2013 a year ago (till it got robbed) and to be fair I felt it was a bit huge and it wasn't comfortable taking it out and work in the public. 3. If it boils down to the 2 XPS 13 models above, and according to my work flow, should I go for the cores, or the memory? And plus, how about the Matebook? If it's okay to tinker the bios and install OS, then I think that machine is more competitive than the XPS, isn't it? 4. If possible please give me some more suggestions according to your own experience, on what other machines I should also look at. I'm thinking of ThinkPad too but I haven't really found a machine that I like. I'm looking forward to some serious answers and all, but anyway, I thank you for your time reading my post. Happy New Year 2021!

Apparently it did not cut it. The system failed to run aida system stability test and it BSOD after Time Spy second test. I had to dial it all the way back to 2933. Maybe time for a new board very soon.