sikari2015

I have a similar issue with my 1080ti. Whenever I use HDMI it gets image problems like the dots, sometimes just won't display. I put it down to a damaged HDMI port on the graphics card. DP adapter works perfectly fine with the same HDMI cable I was using. Could be the HDMI port is damaged. Honestly, DP is a physically much more robust port and cable, in my experience.

Why is this not on Floatplane?

from what I can tell, yep discontinued. Pure used market now. Plus, the RRP shot up to DOUBLE at $200+ so used would still be over $150. closest things I can find would be MSI ITX or Low Profile 1200MHz versions at 60w.

get the BEST card you can AFFORD right now. If you keep waiting for the next best thing you'll never get it. Top tier cards right now will continue to perform in the top leagues for several years. I bought a 1070, but it failed twice in 5 months, so I bit the bullet and splurged on a 1080ti because I can afford it right now. I won't regret it, and I'll likely sell the 1070 if I need the money in future. I know the 1080ti will last me years to come before another upgrade is necessary.

But how do you know which GPU to buy if it wasn't for benchmarking? Passmark is a good place to start, especially when you're trying to find USED cards that aren't current generation. It gives you an idea of comparative, current day performance levels, and then you can actually go on to research the cards in more depth. If you used Passmark you would know how it benchmarks. By rendering game sequences through the various Direct X versions. It's a repeatable, quantifiable number which can be used to compare products. Passmark is one of the better ones because you can get further details including the full details of the computers the scores came from. So if you have a 4th Gen processor it's likely you will find one result of the graphics card you're interested in with the same, or very similar, CPU and system build. For example, in two days of submitted results, someone with an i9-7900x got an RX 470 to score 8351, well above the average for the card of 7496, whereas someone with a AMD A8-7650k only scored 6326 with their RX 470. Plus another thing... Passmark is CONSTANTLY updated. Thousands of submissions of the most readily available hardware daily provide an EXCELLENT bell curve and average scores. FAR greater than the half dozen review articles you could find near the time of release of the hardware. Plus, unlike UL Benchmarks for 3D Mark, Passmark actually shows you the number of submissions to get the average score. What good are 2 year old reviews, because that's when the RX 470 came out. Reviews which actually use game testing are rarely updated with the latest performance results of old hardware.

here's a good site to check out all sorts of cards and how they perform at the same task... https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html

my money is on a GTS 450, the SMDs around theGPU match perfectly

https://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-DELL-XPS-8930-DESKTOP-INTEL-i7-8700-4-6GHz-16GB-512GB-PCIe-SSD-GTX-1080/112788375030?hash=item1a42b605f6:g:gnEAAOSwLI1acpfB 6 core 8th gen i7, 16GB DDR4 and a 1080, under $2k. Get another 16GB of RAM and it's good to go.

hold INSERT as you power on the computer, might get you POSTing and into the BIOS.

as per the WAN show, manufacturers aren't currently providing updates for 90 series motherboards which is likely related to this update. Microsoft is currently testing a new patch that rectifies the booting and updating issues from the previous emergency Spectre Meltdown update, and hopefully it gets rolled out soon. Until then, disable updates is the only solution.

No overclock, good airflow and GPU was water cooled with purpose made water block. Max temp I ever saw was 70C on a burn-in on a 26C ambient day. My guess was a power spike somehow, even though I use a filtering UPS.

If mine wasn't still in warranty I would be desoldering the fuse and putting on a new 15amp one. Good testing from the mining community, who said they're all bad? Just ignore the "of the 20 I bought" posts...

So last year I upgraded my main gaming rig to a Gigabyte GTX 1070 Mini OC Edition. It failed within 3 months and I warranty returned it. I got the new one and it worked fine just like before. Then, two days ago it failed again, this time completely black screen, no detected signal, no fan spinup, no detection of the card what-so-ever in three different computers. This is insane. I've only ever had one other PC component fail multiple times, and amazingly it was a Gigabyte motherboard. So I'm guessing their quality control isn't the best. I've had MSI components fail, but only once, and the same for Kingston, AData and Seagate, but never Asus. So I did some research to find out if this particular card has higher failure rates, and turns out, yeah they do. I found an article on a mining site which explains exactly what's wrong with my card and the cause they found. A fuse blew. Yep, a tiny, simple 10amp fuse on the back of the card blows and make the card useless. The F4 fuse. I tested mine using a multimeter, and yep, sure enough the fuse is blown (set the multimeter to resistance to check circuits). https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2001747.0 So, as my card is still in warranty, it's off for another replacement. However if you have one of these Gigabyte GTX 1070s and it isn't in warranty, you can apparently solder a bridge over the failed fuse and the card works again. It is then highly recommended to limit the card to 80% TDP, to avoid blowing other components. Oh Gigabyte, a 15amp fuse would probably save so many cards.

Use Gatorade as a solvent.... it has electrolytes... it's what the CPU needs. But honestly, twisting will get it off. A bit of isopropyl alcohol will loosen it if necessary.