Sizeable_lad

This has happened twice now, and with different games running. I’ll be playing and suddenly the game will freeze I alt tab to steam and end the process. Except when i tab into steam i cant click anything. Task manager opens but no processes load, and i cant close it at all i notice that while still producing sound, the youtube video im watching is totally frozen, and the entire browser is incredibly laggy. I can still click on the taskbar, but programs wont open and search is totally empty and gray. pressing restart or shut down from the start menu seems to work at first but it just stays on the “shutting down” screen forever i suspect this may be a hardware issue but since i cant open any monitoring software while the issue is occuring i cant tell. restarting fixes it temporarily but this has already happened twice in 2 days. SOS i dont want to have to replace something again ive only had this pc for a coupla years [specs: Gigabyte 3070ti, Asus tuf x570 wifi, Amd 3900x, 16 gig corsair vengeance ddr4, windows boot drive is a samsung 970 m.2 drive and ive had this happen while running games installed on it and my baracuda 2tb hdd]

Replugged ram, gave it a kick. Booted. i am livid that my pc made me have a panic attack at 6am for this.

Well Mark once again i must thank you profusely and from the bottom of my heart Its rare to come across someone like yourself on an internet forum. Especially when youre a confused and bewildered man like myself who dropped a thousand Aussie Dollaridoo's on a gpu expecting it to last me a decent while. I've submitted an RMA request to Gigabyte, cheekily, i asked for a replacement in the ticket so maybe i'll get a fresh card out of this debacle. On the bright side 3070's seem abundant here in Oz, and are conveniently identically priced to what i paid for my 2070 in 2020 so perhaps once they mail my card back ill take your suggestion and sell my problems down the river to some other poor soul for an attractive price. Judging by the distinct lack of 2070 Supers on aussie amazon and ebay I suppose they must be hot items at the moment, that or theyve all simultaneously bricked at the same time as mine, either way there is a gap in supply and i will hopefully manage to capitalise on the demand. Guess i'll be sticking to Minecraft and Solitare for the next few weeks...

Right, so my card is defective or has become so after a few years of use. I dont really like the idea of taking the thing apart and reapplying the thermal paste, is this all that would be involved or would other things need doing? ive heard bad things about gigabytes customer support so rma-ing doesnt sound great either. on another note i currently have the side off of the case and the intake filter removed to improve airflow, its been like this for a few hours so i guess we can rule out my case setup being bad for temps. Oh and the second test didnt change anything. Same spikes at the same points. i suppose i get to choose one of three options: Buy a new card (probably a 3060 ti) RMA or DIY

Ok, Heres test 1, 2 monitors, 4 spikes in a 15 minute session, Im no good at interpereting this data so have at it I'll now shut down, unplug my second monitor and do another test.

The mention of 4000 RPM appears consistently across multiple threads mentioning gigabyte cards specifically. I have not enabled any custom fan curves for my gpu and i set my casefans to "silent" in the bios with some smoothing enabled, though this has little bearing on anything as my Temps appear to be within normal operating limits. As far as overclocking goes... I wouldnt know how, other than enabling xmp for my ram and slightly raising my DRAM Voltage to 1.35 from 1.2 after following a youtube guide,. both of which afaik have nothing to do with the gpu, i havent touched anything. Im pretty sure the card is decently clean as i blew the whole pc out with some compressed air earlier on this year in an inital attempt to fix this ramping issue (as i had assumed my temps were just high or something) Though i suppose if all else fails i could pull the card out and give it a clean. Already set to optimal, have been for a few hours and it appears to be basically identical to adaptive, ill give one screen a crack now and i suppose one more Hardware monitoring program among the dozen ive already installed trying to fix this thing wont hurt. Though, I would be rather dissapointed if i had to give up on having a second monitor, its really quite handy, hell i was thinking about getting a third not too long ago. Oh and the thought occurred to me to reinstall Asus GPU tweak as i uninstalled it months ago due to a nasty bug that would cause all but the most basic of programs to crash on startup, no clue if it will affect anything. Im going to run one test now with both screens using GPU-Z for you, then ill do another with one screen and report. Thanks Again

Alrighty i've done some data collection for you guys. Thanks for your help by the way, I really do appreciate it a bunch Anyway, here are some graphs from HWinfo As far as i can tell The spikes in fan speed do not appear to coincide with spikes elsewhere, so i'm stumped, otherwise, is everything else in order? or is something critically wrong here?

Ok so i did the ddu and installed the latest drivers. first i tried furmark as i could consistently trigger the ramping by clicking into the render and out onto my second monitor and back in. With Adaptive on no ramping occured so that was promising. then i booted up “holdfast nations at war” a game that seemed to trigger the ramping after around 15 minutes of play consistently and to my disappointment my fans began to wail. to give some extra context i bought this gpu a few weeks short of 2 years ago and the ramping problems started this year as far as i can remember.

Ok thanks, ill give that a shot, no option for “normal” though just adaptive, optimal and prefer performance, ill try optimal first. I’ve seen a few threads out there claiming that RMAing or buying a new card is the only fix which is stressful so i sincerely hope DDU-ing is going to work. anyway if worst comes to worst i guess i can just sell my left kidney for a 30 series card ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Thanks for your info, the problem happens less now but still occurs. Adaptive power has helped but i wish it would stop entirely. If its a known bug are there known fixes or am i forced to endure my fans screaming at me every 2 minutes when playing intensive games.

PSA BOYS AND GIRLS: Adaptive power mode is your friend. In short if you are someone reading this thread in the future who owns a 20 series rtx card probably manufactured by gigabyte heres the deal: no clue why but if you have your power management mode set to “prefer maximum performance” gigabyte cards (according to me and about 7 other forum posters from across the internet) will randomly ramp up to 4000 rpm. for me this issue had no bearing on temperature, and odd things like crafting items in mount and blade 2 bannerlord, tabbing out of furmark while it is running, opening the server browser for holdfast: nations at war. Or DARING to play the witcher 3 would trigger it. I have no clue if switching to adaptive power mode is the optimal fix for this issue, or if it occuring in the first place points to a fault in my hardware or setup, but i dont care, my pc no longer randomly screams at me every 2 minutes. Thanks LTT forums and sorry for wasting your time.

Apologies for the confusion but in doing my own research into the matter i think i was being quite blind to what the issue was. It now seems obvious but ill take you through it. fan spikes despite nominal cpu temps bios settings having no effect monitors not detecting the spikes. i foolishly never thought to look at my gpu fans. I believe i have now identified the issue as a defect or problem with my 2070 super from gigabyte as many other forums have reported similar issues. sorry to waste your time with faulty information.

I really wish i knew more but heres what i do know: its a coolermaster argb controller that came along with my ml360 rad and 3 fans, i cant remember precisely how it hooks into the motherboard but im pretty sure one lead from the fans goes to power on the mb and the other goes to the rgb controller which connects via sata to the psu. thats all i really know. also i attempted to set the fan step up/step down in my bios settings, to hopefully make the fans ignore short lived spikes in usage and temp but it doesnt appear to have worked, current step up for the cpu fans is 4 seconds, should i go higher?

Ive tried implementing fan curves using the bios, and argus monitor, niether have helped, like i said to the other guy the fans are also plugged into a rgb controller (coolermaster) would this affect anything?

Pressed the solution button accidentally, whoops. anyway suppose these fans were connected to an rgb controller, could this have an effect? Such as their rpm not being logged in hwinfo? Because the spikes arent getting logged in hwinfo.