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Is my GPU damaged?? [Help]

Ravas2013
By Ravas2013
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So 2 years back I got my GTX 1060 and decided to change the thermal paste on it. Unknowingly I threw out one thermal pad that fell on the floor mistaking it for gum. I had a i5 7600 non K version and it was doing okay but the cpu was a bottleneck. So a month ago I decided to pull the trigger and get the MPG Z390 Carbon Pro AC and i5 9600K. As you do I reinstalled windows and all my shit.

 

It worked fine for 2 weeks and then while playing GTA 5 online framespiking started, I open msi afterburner and frametime spikes go over 300ms and frames drop under 10fps(that was in the city in GTA 5). It goes to normal for few seconds and happens again. Checked the temps and they were around 60-65 C mark. I decided to change out the paste just as a precaution and I find one missing thermal pad. I get one and fit it in the place. And still same stuff. Went with older drivers and still same. Downclocked it and still same. Tried games from my SSD and still same. Will try friend's GPU this friday. If anyone has anything hit me up. Games become unplayable when it happens.

 

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MPG Z390 Carbon Pro AC

i5 9600k @ 5.1GHz @1.30v

GTX 1060 6GB G1 Gaming

HyperX Fury 8GB DDR4 @2666MHz

1TB WD Purple

120GB Kingston SSD

Thermal Take 730W Smart SE

 

EDIT: After everybody telling me it was my PSU I formatted everything I had and reinstalled. So turns out my HDD was bad. Now everything is working as it should. Thanks to all for their input.

 

           

 

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Just now, Ravas2013 said:

Can you elaborate on that? I am not even close to the max. I am under 500w of usage.

The issue isn't wattage. It's quality. The Smart SE is a horrid unit and barely qualifies for an office PC. I would not trust these models with a system that costs more than 300$

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1 minute ago, 5x5 said:

The issue isn't wattage. It's quality. The Smart SE is a horrid unit and barely qualifies for an office PC. I would not trust these models with a system that costs more than 300$

Yeah you are right the quality isn't the best but how does that corelate with frame spiking if clocks are stable which I would think means the power delivery is fine.

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19 minutes ago, Ravas2013 said:

Yeah you are right the quality isn't the best but how does that corelate with frame spiking if clocks are stable which I would think means the power delivery is fine.

It could be bad power delivery from the PSU so the GPU can't work with consistent voltages and Watts which results in it throttling because there is no power 

PC: Motherboard: ASUS B550M TUF-Plus, CPU: Ryzen 3 3100, CPU Cooler: Arctic Freezer 34, GPU: GIGABYTE WindForce GTX1650S, RAM: HyperX Fury RGB 2x8GB 3200 CL16, Case, CoolerMaster MB311L ARGB, Boot Drive: 250GB MX500, Game Drive: WD Blue 1TB 7200RPM HDD.

 

Peripherals: GK61 (Optical Gateron Red) with Mistel White/Orange keycaps, Logitech G102 (Purple), BitWit Ensemble Grey Deskpad. 

 

Audio: Logitech G432, Moondrop Starfield, Mic: Razer Siren Mini (White).

 

Phone: Pixel 3a (Purple-ish).

 

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Just now, TofuHaroto said:

It could be bad power delivery from the PSU so the GPU can't work with consistent voltages and Watts which results in it throttling because there is no power 

But even underclocked it did the same thing. For example in Far Cry new dawn there are no spikes in frame times. GTA 5 online and Shadow of the tomb raider are the worst

 

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1 minute ago, Ravas2013 said:

But even underclocked it did the same thing. For example in Far Cry new dawn there are no spikes in frame times. GTA 5 online and Shadow of the tomb raider are the worst

 

Yea if a PSU is bad and very inconsistent with bad voltage rails or vrms and capacitors it won't deliver reliable power at any voltage 

PC: Motherboard: ASUS B550M TUF-Plus, CPU: Ryzen 3 3100, CPU Cooler: Arctic Freezer 34, GPU: GIGABYTE WindForce GTX1650S, RAM: HyperX Fury RGB 2x8GB 3200 CL16, Case, CoolerMaster MB311L ARGB, Boot Drive: 250GB MX500, Game Drive: WD Blue 1TB 7200RPM HDD.

 

Peripherals: GK61 (Optical Gateron Red) with Mistel White/Orange keycaps, Logitech G102 (Purple), BitWit Ensemble Grey Deskpad. 

 

Audio: Logitech G432, Moondrop Starfield, Mic: Razer Siren Mini (White).

 

Phone: Pixel 3a (Purple-ish).

 

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1 minute ago, VerTTi said:

Im betting my money on the PSU aswell.

Talked to my friend and he will bring his 500w PSU to test. Nobody seemed to talk about the fact that I had one thermal pad missing for over 2 years but okay will try to change out the PSU

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Talked to my friend and he will bring his 500w PSU to test. Nobody seemed to talk about the fact that I had one thermal pad missing for over 2 years but okay will try to change out the PSU

Could be that too but if the change was sudden i doubt its due to that.

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So new update. Spent like the whole day changing out the parts and testing. First I tested my HyperX Fury single stick ram on my friends build worked totally fine in games. (Z170 pro gaming, 6600k, gtx 1070) Then I tested my GPU on his pc and still everything was okay. Then i put his g skill ram 2x8 gb 2800mhz in my pc. Still framestuttering and the usual huge frame drops. Then I put his GTX 1070 and still the same thing even with his ram.

 

Changed out the power supply for his evga 650 gold and same thing, tried another psu, again same.

 

I take his ssd and hdd and plug it into my mobo with my i5 9600k and everything was smooth as butter. So I am now in process of reinstalling windows with both of my drives formatted. Lost like 600gb of games which with my 8 Megabit per second internet is really bad.

 

Will update if problems go away

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