chad89

I got 2 refurb replacement but I get what you mean

your saying my system could be killing the gpu?? Is that a possiblity? although I too have thought about that but I looked up zotac 1080ti having many issues. I also think ZOTAC cannot fail this badly but there's no other possibility I have sysonic gold 800w. If it were to make trouble, the whole system would have gone bad by now. I tried with other GPU it works fine. I have sleeving cable for aesthetic but I would wipe that also out because it worked fine with other GPU. Plus if that's the case, how do I check if psu is killing the gpu or not

yup I got it checked from 3rd party trusted engineer to wipe out my PC. I have every spec pretty much high end. 8700k, 32g ram corsair, 800w sysonic gold, samsung 960pro, gigabyte z370. All put together my self If you see linked post, I have tried with other GPU and it worked fine.

I've previously posted 2 RMA experiences I got my third unit which is my second replacement... It started to crash again... so I had in examined I have been confirmed that my card is defective...again It shuts down on full load I got it tested in private hardware engineer What do you guyz recommend I do? I don't want anymore 1080ti amp line...as my replacement I have to pay another shipping cost of 130$ dollars to send it RMA. This is fully zotac's fault. they've made me go through 3 defective products. I've payed almost 300$ for RMA shipping only to get 2 more defective replacements. They failed to fulfill their own warranty,,, Should I tell them to replace me 20XX instead?? could I reject to pay for the shipping for international RMA because they failed to fulfill the warranty by sending me 2 defective replacement???

yes I have in safe mode with ddu latest driver with no nvidia exp

I got a doa gpu when I first bought zotac 1080ti ex core And I've been on RMA twice and I got the third GPU replacement. I shared my struggle look up the link if interested anyway my third card is behaving similarly crashing in games...just like the first card I sent over to zotac link can anyone check my crash log the game provided and see if it is gpu problem? the game I play is squad. I put graphic setting very high cause... its 1080ti? thermals cant be an issue cause I got a big ass lianli o11 with 9 fans including cpu aio any ideas? other then GPU??? I have recently used 1660ti to play this game but never crashed until I swapped it with my zotac RMA replaced 1080ti GPU If I send it again for RMA it would be my third time shipping it back to zotac... I bought it on amazon from south korea.... It was my life time mistake buying gpu on amazon... and buying zotac... I'm attaching recent two crash log files... the symptom is when I play for a while suddenly the game stops and sound still goes on for a moment then the game crashes If it is zotacs another faulty unit... ill sue zotac...I mean.... how can they.... fail so bad.... Crash Log(squad).zip

First of all, I bought parts one by one. I bought my gpu as a start of my project. I couldn't check until it was done. Second, I wasn't sure if it was GPU problem or not. It couldn't run fire strike, crashed while gaming, but did work a while so I thought I might have done something wrong.

Thankyou for the explanation!

it seems fine. but I try to keep my 8700k, and gpu 1080ti under 70. some say parts can hold 80, 90 degrees, but some also think its better to keep em around certain temp for the lifespan of the part

True. Just gotta try every thing... to find whats best of ones build. Gotta talk with data

Your system is in great air flow. Your room is not... open the door or get the air to flow some how.....

From my experience the most thermal load inside the case is gpu. And since you have a cpu fan sucking in all the gpu heat it might be tough to get a great thermal condition for your cpu...Exausting the gpu heat will be the priority, otherwise with full load cpu will hit 90or higher. and also pulling in air from rear doesn't seem like a good idea. I need to know full spec of your computer for further advice. I assume the cpu is 8700k , or 8700. Biggest conern is the case. It cannot suck out gpu heat... I recomand you get a aio 280 at least(only if it is overclocked cpu), front sandwich intake rear top exaust. Or chage the case. Exaust is more important to the thermals of the computer. That case seems not enough for your set. Incase of air cooling, cpu temp tend to be effected significantly by heat stacking inside the case compared to gpu. Try to keep cpu temp under 75 for longer lifespan. And I hate ZOTAC.

I'll share my RMA experience I also have some words for ZOTAC I wrote this in anger... note that the post almost turned in to a letter to ZOTAC at some point... I also wanted to let you all know how poor the company is handling the product quality, and after service. 1st RMA I bought 1080ti amp extreme core edition on 2018 september through amazon... considering the machine I was planning, I was short on cash so I delayed the project until october. but when I finished, the computer was somewhat malfunctioning. My game kept on crashing. I struggled to find out that the gpu is malfunctioning. The chip couldn't handle the factory overclock. It took me two months of struggle. Trust me I've tried every trouble shootings I can try. so I contacted zotac USA at about november 2018, and they approved the RMA I paid for the shipping since I live in Korea. It cost me 140$ both ways They were cool and fast responding. They found the defect and they said they were going to replace my unit. I was feeling good until they noticed me that they are replacing my unit with a refurbish?! I asked in frustration on the reason why factory defective product is being replaced with refurbish?! of course Due to their warranty ' Warranty claims will be serviced through the repair or replacement of the defective product, with ZOTAC USA holding sole discretion over the option to repair or replace. Any replacement product will be based on performance equal or greater than the original product, at the discretion of ZOTAC USA. ' Yah you have lawyers working huh so what they are saying is performance wise, refurbish is same as the brand new GPU... of course it is better then my factory defective product!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But I bought a new product with defects!!!!!! Shouldn't you have some kind of terms covering your own fault for producing and shipping a malfunctioning unit? but why the hell did I buy new product? to get a refurbish???? The warranty it self is a total disaster I tried to make it right but they kept on saying its the terms on the warranty. How can you people in USA live with that? Customers have their rights to get a fully working new product when we pay for it. but I gave up. I am nobody living in Asia nobody cares, nowhere to claim this to about other then CS. I even sent a mail to the HONGKONG HQ in a frustration and they replied.... ' Dear Sir, Please refer the reply from our colleagure.Thank you.' ?????????????????????? I just became a stupid idiot who bought a refurbish product with more money then a new product. I received the replacement, no Zotac approved seal(they sealed it with normal tape...) had some scratches but was okey, game worked fine, clock bench came out fine but guess what, it's not over. 2nd RMA My computer still had weird symptom. When ever I played video, sound sync started getting separated and it eventually crashed in almost every 30 minutes. Video stops and sound repeated like an EDM forever. I started going through troubleshoots. I thought it was nvidia driver, or something. Time passed by... since the games were working fine, I tried to ignore the video stopping symptom. I was planning a second computer and started buying things. When I bought a 1660ti(I am a sucker I bought a ZOTAC again) I put it on my original PC to test the card and boom!!!!!!!!!! Problem solved. No more video stopping or sync messing up. I was in my darkest mood that day... I contacted ZOTAC again. RMA approved... 140$ both ways all over again... Except this time they couldn't point out the defect, but they replaced it anyway. I was thankful, I didn't want to argue any more. I received it today and had no more patience to endure this mess. They sent me another refurbish with a crap condition this time... at least they sealed it with ZOTAC seal... Some parts with hex key screws were clicking...I don't have a hex key to tighten them I'll add the video... Why are the fan wings all chipped out? Why is thermal compound not even touching the chip??? You gave me a 2080ti inner box with some magic eye thing.... gee thanks... Are you treating me this way because I'm a nobody living in who knows where??? I bought the product I paid my money to get a proper product. I know what your gonna say when I claim about the condition. Its esthetic, our terms of condition..... performance... equal... that's what says on the terms...bblah You failed to manufacture properly You failed to take responsibility on your factory defective unit. You failed to fulfill your crappy warranty by sending me another defective product You failed again by providing a not properly refurbished product with your stupid ZOTAC seal on. I've had enough of you ZOTAC USA. ZOTAC You are a multi national firm. You should take a better care of your customer. How can you make customer take responsibility for your own factory defective product??? How can you replace a new product with a refurbish at the first place? How can you fail to refurbish properly? twice? only to me??? SHAME ON YOU ZOTAC From this amazing unboxing experience to.... This madness.... KakaoTalk_Video_20200304_1436_22_864.mp4