Help me with simple answer, please

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About 6 months ago, i bought second hand 1080 Ti. no warranty. put a new thermal paste, so the temps were good, In the last maybe 2 weeks i started mining. i overclocked my GPU 2 times for more MH/s and both times i had artifacts/glitches on my monitor, on all sites and applications. It was not all the time, super crazy artifacts, so it was obvious that my GPU is dying, but it showed like every 2 minutes, on like 10-20% of the screen. So i decided to leave it on stock. It was all good for like a week, but today, i got the artifacts again, on stock settings. My question is, are artifacts really a sign that my gpu is dying and being damaged? Should i stop mining? Also, i'm browsing web while mining. could that be a problem? Thanks!

[aisle9]

First off, don't overclock a card you're mining on. It's inefficient and it greatly increases the thermal load, which can take life off of the card.

 

Second, go into Device Manager and pull up the card's properties. If it shows Error 43, yeah, RIP GPU. If it doesn't, there's hope. My gut feeling is that the high temperatures either melted solder or just damaged the GPU or VRAM on their own, but I'd be thrilled if it were wrong and all you had to do was put it back and stock, DDU the drivers away, install the newest ones directly from NVIDIA's site and enjoy.

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15 minutes ago, aisle9 said:

First off, don't overclock a card you're mining on. It's inefficient and it greatly increases the thermal load, which can take life off of the card.

Correction, overclock the memory, but not the core. Memory overclocking greatly increases hash-rate and performance but lower the power target and core overclock for the best performance and efficiency

 

I would say, check if you can under-clock memory and see if you can get stability back if all else fails.

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On 3/9/2021 at 5:53 AM, aisle9 said:

First off, don't overclock a card you're mining on. It's inefficient and it greatly increases the thermal load, which can take life off of the card.

 

Second, go into Device Manager and pull up the card's properties. If it shows Error 43, yeah, RIP GPU. If it doesn't, there's hope. My gut feeling is that the high temperatures either melted solder or just damaged the GPU or VRAM on their own, but I'd be thrilled if it were wrong and all you had to do was put it back and stock, DDU the drivers away, install the newest ones directly from NVIDIA's site and enjoy.

yeah, i didn't overclock afterwards. There is no error in device manager. There is no high temperatures, as i mentioned i replaces thermal paste and it's working on 65 degrees celsius. 72c TOP, while hardcore gaming. And the artifacts/glitches occur only after longer periods of mining. If i don't mine, no artifacts. Thanks 

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On 3/9/2021 at 6:11 AM, DaJakerBoss said:

Correction, overclock the memory, but not the core. Memory overclocking greatly increases hash-rate and performance but lower the power target and core overclock for the best performance and efficiency

 

I would say, check if you can under-clock memory and see if you can get stability back if all else fails. The artifacts/glitches occur only after longer periods of mining. If i don't mine, no artifacts. Thanks 

Yeah, i overclocked memory 400+ and core only 50+. Also important info: i didn't overclock afterwards.