RTX 2080 Ti FE RMA a year later for still continuing random crashes?

[Irmanbird]

Hello,

 

I'm wondering if I should give up or try to push for an RMA once more. I doubt a full refund would be possible but I've been happy with the performance and would want to switch to the same card from another manufacturer. I got my RTX 2080 Ti FE at launch, RMA'd it once within 3 months(close enough to launch for nothing to be properly fixed) for the same issues as now, except happening more often.

 

I get BSOD/screen freeze/hard resets roughly once a week from doing various different things(Rendering) and different games (recently Control, Hitman 2, and just now the COD:MW Beta for example, but not always even stressing the GPU). I am tired of worrying when the next crash is gonna happen. My uptime is pretty much the entire time between the crashes. Latest BSOD dump had nvlddmkm.sys as a red error, which seems to point at GPU drivers as well. GPU-Z logs show nothing unusual, and never even stops at the highest usage/temps.

 

Additional info and build in spoiler.

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• I've ran a full day of Memtest86 with no issues, probably not that.
• Build, PSU should be strong enough.
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  PCPartPicker Part List

  Type	Item	Price
  CPU	AMD Ryzen 7 2700X 3.7 GHz 8-Core Processor	$197.99 @ Amazon
  CPU Cooler	Noctua NH-D15 SE-AM4 82.52 CFM CPU Cooler
  Motherboard	ASRock Fatal1ty X470 Gaming K4 ATX AM4 Motherboard	$133.88 @ OutletPC
  Memory	G.Skill Trident Z 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory	$239.99 @ Newegg
  Storage	Samsung 970 Evo 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive	$169.89 @ OutletPC
  Video Card	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11 GB Founders Edition Video Card	$1199.99 @ Best Buy
  Case	Fractal Design Define R5 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case	$136.98 @ SuperBiiz
  Power Supply	SeaSonic FOCUS Plus Platinum 750 W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply	$146.98 @ Newegg
  	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
  	Total (before mail-in rebates)	$2255.70
  	Mail-in rebates	-$30.00
  	Total	$2225.70
  	Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-09-21 12:42 EDT-0400

  In hindsight I should have bought a better mobo.

• I had a GTX 970 before in this same build for a few months until I got the new card, with absolutely no issues.
• I haven't tried overclocking it at all for over 6 months in an attempt to stop these crashes

Another weird thing is that I occasionally try to run Precision X1 for just the custom fan curve as the default curves get really hot. And if that's on I don't get the crashes as often but instead my screens sometimes flash, I get the display connected pop-up for my G-Sync monitor. After which I will have black bars flickering on the top half of my every monitor, every ~20 seconds, until I reboot my computer.

 

So my question is basically confirmation if the problems I'm having are 'worthy' of a RMA, as I tend to belittle everything. Or am I just supposed to suck it up as normal behavior for modern GPUs? I'm in Europe as well if that has any merit in RMA things.

 

Of course any possibly helpful info is welcome as well.

[spat55]

Do a complete windows reinstall, take off any overclocks (set BIOS to default), if you still get crashes that relate to the card then RMA, when you do that fresh install don't use Precision, just let it run the default setup, could be Precision doing something causing the crashes. 

 

If you really don't wanna do a reinstall of windows then set BIOS to defaults, take off Precision and run DDU wipe the drivers and reinstall, could be the PSU but I'd RMA the card before the PSU IMO.