Is my GPU dying?

[Cb2394]

Ok, so the title is the question. I'm starting to get a lot of screen artifacting, and screen flickering, started to be very noticeable yesterday. I believe it started earlier than that but I didn't notice the warning signs originally. The early signs, playing SWKotor, the entire screen and audio dies, specifically from the monitor, headphone audio is fine, then comes back a few seconds later, I wrote this off originally as a bug from a very old game. I believe the screen tried to flicker with R6S as well, had a complete system freeze up playing that around the same time.

 

I did recently update my PC, went from a 2x4gb ram kit to a 4x4gb ram kit, swapped my old 750gb backup HDD to a 2TB backup HDD and changed monitors from a 1080p 60hz HDMI to to to a 1080p 144hz displayport monitor.

 

Current specs:

Ryzen 7 1700x

4x4gb ram

Zotac GTX 1060 6GB AMP! Edition

Gigabyte ab350 gaming 3

120gb SSD (OS)

2TB Seagate HDD (mass storage)

 

 

Anything I could do to further trouble shoot? Am I missing something glaring? Could one of the PC updates be responsible for the issues? Could something else be the problem? Thank you for any help and advice. Nothing is OCed right now.

[Jurrunio]

Try DDU to remove, and then reinstall drivers? Otherwise either the video memory or GPU core is dying, you can check this by dropping core or memory frequency significantly and see if that helps with the artifacting. Zotac has 5 year warranty for their cards, use that.

[SupaKomputa]

Screen artifact is one sign of dead chip / vram.

If its still in warranty i suggest RMA.

[Cb2394]

Fun, sounds like I'm running a RMA then. Any fun nuances I should be aware of for a RMA with Zotac? Or are they pretty good at just accepting them without making the end user jump through 50 hoops?

[Cb2394]

47 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

Try DDU to remove, and then reinstall drivers? Otherwise either the video memory or GPU core is dying, you can check this by dropping core or memory frequency significantly and see if that helps with the artifacting. Zotac has 5 year warranty for their cards, use that.

I'll try this for science when I get home after work, even if it does fix the issue I might still go through with a RMA to stay in the safe side

[Jurrunio]

1 hour ago, Cb2394 said:

Fun, sounds like I'm running a RMA then. Any fun nuances I should be aware of for a RMA with Zotac? Or are they pretty good at just accepting them without making the end user jump through 50 hoops?

from what I heard their warranty service is alright. Kinda hoped for better components from the start though.

[Cb2394]

34 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

from what I heard their warranty service is alright. Kinda hoped for better components from the start though.

Isn't that the truth, 5 year warranty and the card is dying within 3, just bad business practice, at least last 6 months after it expires, like cars or phones. Might buy an upgrade, RMA this one and then repurpose the returned 1060 for my wife's machine.

[Jurrunio]

1 hour ago, Cb2394 said:

Isn't that the truth, 5 year warranty and the card is dying within 3, just bad business practice, at least last 6 months after it expires, like cars or phones. Might buy an upgrade, RMA this one and then repurpose the returned 1060 for my wife's machine.

one that burns themselves at the end, no idea why they're doing this on a mid range custom card of a mid range GPU. I understand that it wont be as good as high end custom cards like the Strix (which I don't see the point iof buying n the first place), but it's inferior to even the Gigabyte windforce, G1 Gaming and EVGA SSC. It's about what low end custom cards (the short mITX cards :P) use, but those are cheaper and if low price means cheaply made, sure.

[rsgametech]

What is the PSU and is it rated to handle the voltage that the GPU requires?

 

 

[Cb2394]

42 minutes ago, rsgametech said:

What is the PSU and is it rated to handle the voltage that the GPU requires?

 

 

PSU is a new (less then six months old) seasonic m12ii 620w, wattage should be more than enough for a 1060 and a ryzen 7 1700x. I've had it installed for a while with no issues.

53 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

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Yeah, puts a bad taste in my mouth, especially since the card itself is not a good OCer according to the research I did after the initial purchase, which is why I just left it at stock settings. Low price shouldn't correlate to quality, but it is what it is. Definitely going with a different brand for an upgrade card though. Traveling to the mystical Microcenter land this weekend, will see what tempting pickings they offer.

 

Thank you for the help everyone! 

[Cb2394]

Update!:

 

First off, always love Microcenter. Picked up a Asus ROG RTX 2060 OC edition on sale, so it was just over 2060 MSRP.

 

Second, and this is the important one: I'm a stupid. A real stupid. Issue persisted after installation of new GPU and a new round of DDU to get my PC ready to enjoy all of the *fully functioning* Ray tracing goodness. That's when I noticed something on my monitor box that I forgot: freesync. Looking in the monitor settings, seems freesync was enabled. Don't know why, I never enabled it, but after disabling it the issue completely went away. 

 

Good news: the 2060 is one beast of a card and the wife has a very solid 1080p machine now. Thanks again everyone and forgive me being a stupid!