GPU artifacting

[MrJeeves]

Been getting strange artifacting on my system for a few months now, but it's gotten worse recently. It started off with black boxes and rendering issues in DX games, such as this

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Today, it's progressed into this even just sitting on the Windows desktop:

 

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From what I can gather, this is a VRAM issue as it shows on screen recordings and on screenshots. My GPU is a Zotac RTX 3080 Trinity LHR.

 

I did get in touch about this under warranty, but they are being a pain saying that I'm on my own because I bought the GPU second-hand. Their UK warranty policy doesn't actually exclude products purchased second-hand, but it does exclude them from their extended warranty programme.

 

I'm trying to get an RMA for it, but wondered if there's any other steps I can take to try and troubleshoot this further.

[bmx6454]

not really, you can try underclocking the vram, and undervolting, maybe get some temporary stability. but otherwise, it just needs replacing. are you sure the warranty allows that? i guess its different in the uk. in the us, warranty will not transfer.

[Hinjima]

Definitely looks like Vram issue. Hate to say it but that card might need replacing.

[MrJeeves]

13 hours ago, bmx6454 said:

not really, you can try underclocking the vram, and undervolting, maybe get some temporary stability. but otherwise, it just needs replacing. are you sure the warranty allows that? i guess its different in the uk. in the us, warranty will not transfer.

It's a grey area, as far as I know. The warranty might not be, but our consumer rights might. We had proposed legislation to explicitly add transferability of warranties and such into law a few years ago, but they didn't go anywhere.

 

Zotac seem more inclined to help me than I expected, though, which is a positive based on what I've read online.

[MrJeeves]

My issue is hard to reproduce because it only happens sometimes. At the moment, sitting on the desktop, it's fine. Last night I was getting those artifacts, though, but I still managed to play High on Life for a few hours without any artifacts in-game. It's very weird.

[bmx6454]

2 hours ago, MrJeeves said:

My issue is hard to reproduce because it only happens sometimes. At the moment, sitting on the desktop, it's fine. Last night I was getting those artifacts, though, but I still managed to play High on Life for a few hours without any artifacts in-game. It's very weird.

 

16 hours ago, bmx6454 said:

you can try underclocking the vram, and undervolting, maybe get some temporary stability