GPU or PCI-E slot fried?

[IsaacG]

My rx 480 8gb, which I had running under a pretty high overclock with a cpu aio to cool it died yesterday. The day it died, the GPU had been throwing up all sorts of artifacting, even when I dialed back the overclocks and ran with little overvolting. Later, when I was running 3dmark to try to figure out if it was stable, my computer hard crashed and the GPU stopped outputting. In addition to not outputting, it wasn't recognized by windows, even when I uninstalled and reinstalled drivers. Today I fully removed the card, ran the heatgun over it for 5 minutes or so, then when that didn't work, I tried again for 10 minutes with no success. I'm starting to wonder if the PCI slot may have been damaged due to too much power being drawn through it, as the GPU die didn't heat up at all after I reinstalled and tried to run the card today. If the PCI slot is fried rather than the GPU, would it be fixeable using a heatgun, even if temporarily?

[Alienware 15 R2]

GPU. PCIe would rarely get fried from OCing.

[IsaacG]

2 hours ago, Alienware 15 R2 said:

GPU. PCIe would rarely get fried from OCing.

Was just worried about that bc heatgun didn't work and the GPU peaked at 230watts with a 6 pin and PCI-e. Do you have any suggestions for anything I could try?

[Alienware 15 R2]

You could turn on the motherboard and check the GPU capacitors for voltage?

[IsaacG]

16 minutes ago, Alienware 15 R2 said:

You could turn on the motherboard and check the GPU capacitors for voltage?

Been forever since I used a multimeter, should I just test these contacts?

[Alienware 15 R2]

Yes.

[IsaacG]

15 minutes ago, Alienware 15 R2 said:

Yes.

Just tested and I managed to accidentally short the two contacts I circled because of how incompetent and clumsy I am. I tested more and got no voltage over the capacitors.

[Alienware 15 R2]

those capacitors look fried.

You should Buy another card unless you know how to remove the capacitors and put new ones in.

[IsaacG]

2 minutes ago, Alienware 15 R2 said:

those capacitors look fried.

You should Buy another card unless you know how to remove the capacitors and put new ones in.

Honestly kinda surprised the capacitors are fried bc I had a case fan and a heat sink cooling the vrms, was it just the power going through them?

[Alienware 15 R2]

No it was because when you had tested them you had gotten zero voltage out of them.

You can either try to check the inside of the card to check if anything other than the capicators are fried and fix the capacitors or just scrap the video card entirely and just get a new one.

[IsaacG]

23 minutes ago, Alienware 15 R2 said:

No it was because when you had tested them you had gotten zero voltage out of them.

You can either try to check the inside of the card to check if anything other than the capicators are fried and fix the capacitors or just scrap the video card entirely and just get a new one.

thx for the help, I will try some more on this card tomorrow, but if that doesn't work out do you have any recommendations for gpus in the sub $200 range(preferably ones that could OC well)? I'm looking at used 1070s rn. I would be willing to buy another polaris card tho to hold me off, as I was really hoping to upgrade whenever nvidia 3000 series launched.

[Alienware 15 R2]

Are you interested in Nividias 16 and 15 series Graphics Cards?

If no then id recommend the RX 590.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07JQDKNXS/ref=twister_B07ZXYJFMJ?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

[IsaacG]

15 minutes ago, Alienware 15 R2 said:

Are you interested in Nividias 16 and 15 series Graphics Cards?

If no then id recommend the RX 590.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07JQDKNXS/ref=twister_B07ZXYJFMJ?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

I don't mind buying used, and I'm not really into the 16 series bc rt will be on both ps5 and series x and the 16 series doesn't have it.

[IsaacG]

When they came out I liked the 16 series but now with the new consoles i can't justify buying them when theres the 20 series

[Alienware 15 R2]

Alright the 590 is the best in terms of 200 dollar graphics card and should easily be at 188 when bought used.

 

Hope you can have the best Graphics In games.

[IsaacG]

2 minutes ago, Alienware 15 R2 said:

Alright the 590 is the best in terms of 200 dollar graphics card and should easily be at 188 when bought used.

 

Hope you can have the best Graphics In games.

Thx for the help! Warranty's are great and all but I just saw a gigabyte 1070 for $180 so I might check that out

[Alienware 15 R2]

Hope it goes well!

Im doing Ray tracing on my 980M at 30FPS

[IsaacG]

29 minutes ago, Alienware 15 R2 said:

Hope it goes well!

Im doing Ray tracing on my 980M at 30FPS

Gotta trace those rays!