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What's the conventional wisdom of how long before damage on the GPU without the water cooling? Complicates this troubleshooting >.<

Current hardware: 5800x3d (new as of april) Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 EVGA 3080 Ti Copper (new as of april) Asus x570-E Mobo Corsair RM1000x PSU (new as of april) Custom liquid cooling loop The problem: System will hang often on the VGA POST codes / white light Hard killing power and restarting several times will lead to successful post (sometimes after two times, sometimes more than a dozen) On some successful posts, shows windows loading screen, then video signal cuts, hear windows 11 startup sound, but no video signal What has been done / history: The original problem stemmed from march when I cleaned components in the custom water loop, and killed the old GPU. system would do nothing after dozens of restarts, landing on VGA post codes and white light Purchased 3080 Ti Copper new in box from ebay, as well as 5800x3d (figured if I was going through trouble of messing with the loop for a 3rd time to upgrade) In doing so, leaked some water onto the mobo and SSD area, cleaned well and reassembled (was not powered on) Additionally purchased RM1000x PSU after confirming the old PSU didn't have capacity for 3080 Ti's power connectors Originally thought the problem was with the RAM after reading, fiddled around, only have half of my total 64gb installed currently, which lead to successful boot Clear now that the ram is not the issue BIOS / software The mobo BIOS was updated to the latest as of mid April I have NOT reinstalled windows at this point, but am rounding the corner on doing it since it's one of the last options I'm pretty sure however that a fresh windows install won't help the POST issues What I have to test with: 1080 Ti 2080 Ti Super (RMAed card) 2015 system with core i7 5820k x99 mobo I'm at a loss for where to look. Based on CPU and GPU being new, it's less likely they are the issue. I can swap the GPU to see if the problem persists, but honestly think because it's intermittent that it may be the mobo? Any help is appreciated.

You're saying this in addition to the swap?

Yea it's not a dumb idea at all - looks to be about a 20% bump at stock.

Is there a recommended guide or place to start for overclocking?

System: CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6 GHz Mobo: Asus ROG Strix X570-E Memory: Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 x2 (64GB total) Storage: Samsung 970 Evo Plus 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME GPU: EVGA 3080 Ti Hydro Copper PSU: Corsair RMx 1,000 Watt PC is water cooled. I've recently updated the GPU and PSU. Mostly playing World of Warcraft, which I know is CPU heavy, and not getting the FPS I'd like. Is it worth it to try and squeeze more out of the CPU, or should I start planning for a platform upgrade?

Lost the Auction

So many fittings... so many trips to MicroCenter...

Budget (including currency): $600-1,000 Country: USA Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: WoW, light video editing Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): Current system: +Asus ROG Strix x570-E +Ryzen 3700X +64GB Corsair Dominator RAM +Corsair Hydro X liquid cooling I'm at a point of information overload - I'd like to get something that will have similar performance to the 2080ti and capable of being cooled with the Corsair Hydro X system or similar, or run basically silent with moderate gaming. Any suggestions are appreciated.

Update: Pulled out and re-mounted the 2080 ti. Now gives code 9E. No information on this code. Nothing is displayed on the screen. When plugging in with the 1080, it gets back to code 02 and gets me into windows.

So I swapped in my old 1080 ti, and the system now works. Is there a possibility I fried the 2080 when the card was not mounted correctly? Is there a possibility that I like cracked the PCB on my last installation? Is such a thing common?

It's there anything else with trying assuming no hardware damage?

The only items I can do that with is the GPU and RAM, which I'll try and see what happens.

Yes, I did the bios update, that's what led to this current looping. It's entirely possible that there's physical damage.

MB - Asus ROG Strix 570-e CPU - RYZEN 7 3700X RAM - CORSAIR Dominator Platinum DDR4 3200 - Tried with 4 sticks and with 1 in slot A2 as required via mobo instructions m.2 SSds (Boot and storage) GPU - EVGA 2080 ti XC Link to error codes loop video: https://photos.app.goo.gl/5g7rwJcKYuyS6krt7 Story - I was doing maintenance on the cooling components (custom water loop) which included removing GPU block to clean, and replacing CPU block. When I finished, I booted back up, realizing then that I had a bad seat on the GPU cooler, and appeared to also be a bad seat on the new CPU cooler as both were running way hotter than they should be. I re-drained the loop, re-did the GPU thermal paste, and tightened the mounting screws for the CPU block (all blocks are corsair hydro X). Upon completion of second round of maintenance, I attempted to boot up, but was stuck in a loop of 20s/30s/40s codes. I then cleared CMOS via jumper as described in manual, which then lead to booting with an error code of 02, with still no boot. This led me to re-flashing the BIOS, which I did to BIOS version 4602. After completed installation of BIOS, system is now stuck within the loop as seen in the video. I cleared CMOS again but no dice, still stuck in this loop with nothing ever shown on screen. I've tried as well the onboard HDMI port. No USB devices are plugged in besides keyboard. I'm completely stuck, not sure where to look for answers. Please help!