GPU Artifacting Issue

[Russellbbbb]

Hello Everyone, 

My GPU is artifacting and I don’t know if there is a way or even if it’s worth attempting to repair it.

 

I have a 3060 ti, however it’s a card which came from a prebuilt Acer system (Acer Predator Card) which uses a blower style cooler.  

I have cleaned the card as much as I could without taking it apart and updated drivers.  But it’s still the same.  
 

Would it be worth replacing thermal paste or does anyone have any suggestions?

 

Thank you in advance!

 

 

 

[leclod]

It would be nice to try the card in another desktop,

You could check the temperatures with MSI Afterburner for example.

You could disassemble, repaste and repad, but for that you'd better get the right thickness pads ahead.

It doesn't look good. When does the artifacting happen ? maybe some VRam chips are getting too hot

 

Edited October 2, 2024 by leclod

[Russellbbbb]

6 minutes ago, leclod said:

It would be nice to try the card in another desktop,

You could check the temperatures with MSI Afterburner for example.

You could disassemble, repaste and repad, but for that you'd better get the right thickness pads ahead.

It doesn't look good. When does the artifacting happen ? maybe some VRam chips are getting too hot

 

Thanks for the reply.  I have tried the card in another system and it’s the same unfortunately. The artifact in started out of nowhere and I was just typing an email without any graphic stress at all.  Now it happens from start up.  The only place it doesn’t show is in the bios menu.  
 

Thoughts?  

[SpookyCitrus]

30 minutes ago, Russellbbbb said:

Thanks for the reply.  I have tried the card in another system and it’s the same unfortunately. The artifact in started out of nowhere and I was just typing an email without any graphic stress at all.  Now it happens from start up.  The only place it doesn’t show is in the bios menu.  
 

Thoughts?  

I'd say the card is dead/dying, most likely best to just replace it. You could use HWMonitor or HWinfo to check the temps but it sounds and looks like failing VRAM to me. 

[Russellbbbb]

7 minutes ago, SpookyCitrus said:

I'd say the card is dead/dying, most likely best to just replace it. You could use HWMonitor or HWinfo to check the temps but it sounds and looks like failing VRAM to me. 

Thanks for the reply.  I just noticed that in the device manager that it says the GPU was stopped by windows because of reported problem (code 43)