What to do with my $700 paperweight?

[oneeagle1103]

I purchased a refurbished MSI GeForce RTX 2080 8GB GDDR6 PCI Express 3.0 x16 SLI Support Video Card RTX 2080 GAMING X TRIO from a very trusted online retailer back in April of 2020. It has been causing my PC to bluescreen and artifact for over a year and a half. I've taken my PC to 2 different shops in 2 different states and neither of them have been able to resolve my issue. We have reformatted the computer multiple times, updated all drivers and bios multiple times including the GPU driver and nothing has worked. MSI support has stated they wont help me with resolving this issue since the warranty is expired. What can I do with my $700 paperweight since MSI wont help me?

[Middcore]

Chuck it on eBay as "for parts or not working" and hopefully get at least a couple hundred bucks back from some optimistic soul who thinks they can succeed where others have failed. 

[jaslion]

The moment you see artifcating return the card IMMEDIATELY next time. Artifacting after doing a DDU means the card is DEAD and 99.99% of the time it's unfixable.

[8tg]

14 minutes ago, Middcore said:

Chuck it on eBay as "for parts or not working" and hopefully get at least a couple hundred bucks back from some optimistic soul who thinks they can succeed where others have failed. 

A couple hundred bucks would be optimistic at best

2080’s and 2080 supers are extremely cheap now 

[oneeagle1103]

I would love to see someone from LTT to make a video trying to figure out what's wrong and attempt to repair it. Id send it to them on my dime as well.

[IkeaGnome]

3 minutes ago, oneeagle1103 said:

I would love to see someone from LTT to make a video trying to figure out what's wrong and attempt to repair it. Id send it to them on my dime as well.

Id put money on a VRM chip. 2080s and 2080tis are starting to run rampant with that. Makes for an easy fix and flip. Last 2080 ti I picked up was a blower for $200. If you’re not set up for soldering, it sucks, but it’s only about $30 in parts to repair. If one is dead on a Turing card you’re better off replacing all of them or you’re just going to chase the next one in a few months. 
 

The software to figure out which chip(s) are dead or if it’s a controller is put out by Nvidia for free to use. A person could in theory run it to confirm, order the right ram chips and take it to a shop and pay them to remove and replace the vram chips. 

[oneeagle1103]

1 hour ago, IkeaGnome said:

Id put money on a VRM chip. 2080s and 2080tis are starting to run rampant with that. Makes for an easy fix and flip. Last 2080 ti I picked up was a blower for $200. If you’re not set up for soldering, it sucks, but it’s only about $30 in parts to repair. If one is dead on a Turing card you’re better off replacing all of them or you’re just going to chase the next one in a few months. 
 

The software to figure out which chip(s) are dead or if it’s a controller is put out by Nvidia for free to use. A person could in theory run it to confirm, order the right ram chips and take it to a shop and pay them to remove and replace the vram chips. 

Do you know what the software is called?

[IkeaGnome]

2 minutes ago, oneeagle1103 said:

Do you know what the software is called?

Nvidia Mods Mats. You have to have a motherboard that will boot in Legacy. It runs off a USB. I’m traveling home from work tonight but can lend a hand tomorrow or the next day with it. I’m losing reception for an hour or so then will be at the bar. Not the best time to be helping with that

[oneeagle1103]

20 hours ago, IkeaGnome said:

Nvidia Mods Mats. You have to have a motherboard that will boot in Legacy. It runs off a USB. I’m traveling home from work tonight but can lend a hand tomorrow or the next day with it. I’m losing reception for an hour or so then will be at the bar. Not the best time to be helping with that

Thanks for the offer but I think I'm going to look into getting a newer card. Was looking at getting a 3070ti. Anyone have any suggestions that are better than my current paperweight that isnt $1k?

[oneeagle1103]

UPDATE! 

 

I upgraded to an Asus Tuff 3070ti. Sadly I'm still blue screening and artifacting.... Anyone have any thoughts on what the issue could be? I'm leaning towards the motherboard being the issue now

[-rascal-]

1 hour ago, oneeagle1103 said:

UPDATE! 

 

I upgraded to an Asus Tuff 3070ti. Sadly I'm still blue screening and artifacting.... Anyone have any thoughts on what the issue could be? I'm leaning towards the motherboard being the issue now

 

How old is your Corsair AX850 PSU?

If what you have is the 80 PLUS Gold unit, rather than the 80 PLUS Titanium, then that PSU is from 10+ years ago.

 

Are you using two separate PCI-E 8-pin cables, or a single daisy-chain cable?

You want to use two completely separate cables.

 

Is your CPU overclocked, and is the OC stable?

What about your memory, XMP or manual OC enabled?

 

What version motherboard BIOS are you using for your MSi MEG Z390?

Would be helpful if you listed your computer specs in your first post.