Is my GPU dying?

[Cayde Vanlue]

Hi, i have a 1080 TI i purchased in 2018 and i feel like it's dying.

It fails to be detected on older games like Command And Conquer Generals and Freelancer where it says error loading 3D Graphics Card (or something like that) and in modern games like Ark or Destiny 2 it is no longer capable of running high settings on my native resolution 2560x1440

when putting games on ultra low on 1920x1080 it will run them without crashing but also has lower FPS then it had a year ago. ( If i had to guess i would say it has been having problems for over half a year now )

It doesn't fail detecting any sort of displays neither is it showing artefacts.

It has not been overclocked.

I am on the latest version of Windows 10.

 

Anyone have ideas to if it's dying or anything else that might be wrong with it?

Cheers.

 

PS: I am planning on upgrading to a 3080 but prices are still a great pain.

[Cayde Vanlue]

I have, it had no effect. My power supply is a Corsair TX750M. I should have included in the post: I am running it with a Intel Core I9 9th gen.

[jones177]

Lots of old games don't recognize newer cards. So not really an issues.

 

For performance it is best to use a synthetic bench like Time Spy. 

I tested my EVGA SC GTX 1080 tis before selling them and they were close to average so they were ok.

This is what it looked like. 

[spidermonke11]

Hi, my guess is that maybe the thermal pads need to be changed? try that out there should be some videos on youtube on how to do it but that was the first thing that came to my mind

 

edit: forgot to add why the thermal pads may be the issue, the card's temps probably get messy with the old thermal pads so the card underperforms to cater for the fact of a cooling issue

 

thanks

[Cayde Vanlue]

I'll try the synth bench thanks for that!

And i am going to renew the thermal pads.

[spidermonke11]

4 minutes ago, Cayde Vanlue said:

I'll try the synth bench thanks for that!

And i am going to renew the thermal pads.

Ok that's good to hear, I would love to hear the results when you're done

 

Thanks

[Cayde Vanlue]

17 hours ago, spidermonke11 said:

Ok that's good to hear, I would love to hear the results when you're done

 

Thanks

The bench's short answer was that the GPU's score was 104% but 78 PC's with the same components performed better than my PC. If anything my CPU was on 90% score. I am working on finding out which mm of thermal pads and how many of them i need, i got a friend who's done thermal replacing before so that will be covered.