GPU Overclock fail

[Puerto_Rico]

Ryzen 1600x @4.0

MSI B350 Tomahawk

PSU Corsair RM650 80+Gold

Corsair Venegance LPX 3200

WD Blue 1TB

Kingston SSD 120GB

 

I tried to OC my G1 Gaming 980 Ti earlier today(the settings on MSI afterburner were: Power Limit +39, Core Clock +100, Memory Clock +150 and a custom fan curve) and put it through a stress test on FurMark. The test was running for a few minutes(the temps were hovering at around 75C) and I decided to go for a smoke and call it a day, but after I came back the PC was off. I thought the overclock just failed but I also smelled smoke. So now I have replaced my 980 Ti with a HD 7770. Does this mean that my 980 Ti is completely dead? When I tried to boot my PC with 980 Ti, system turned on for a second and then a few sparks flew out of the gpu with a bit of smoke. I wonder this happened, I tried stronger overlcocks before and the system would just shut down, could the PSU be the problem?

 

[3 Lions]

Reset the OC on 980Ti and just run a stress test for an hour if it works and looks fine then your GPU is not dead however if you turn on the system and there are artifacts on the screen then it's game over for the 980Ti. 

[weed]

Just now, Puerto_Rico said:

Ryzen 1600x @4.0

MSI B350 Tomahawk

PSU Corsair RM650 80+Gold

Corsair Venegance LPX 3200

WD Blue 1TB

Kingston SSD 120GB

 

I tried to OC my G1 Gaming 980 Ti earlier today(the settings on MSI afterburner were: Power Limit +39, Core Clock +100, Memory Clock +150 and a custom fan curve) and put it through a stress test on FurMark. The test was running for a few minutes(the temps were hovering at around 75C) and I decided to go for a smoke and call it a day, but after I came back the PC was off. I thought the overclock just failed but I also smelled smoke. So now I have replaced my 980 Ti with a HD 7770. Does this mean that my 980 Ti is completely dead? When I tried to boot my PC with 980 Ti, system turned on for a second and then a few sparks flew out of the gpu with a bit of smoke. I wonder this happened, I tried stronger overlcocks before and the system would just shut down, could the PSU be the problem?

 

i mean increasing the power limit for a very small overclock is a little weird but smoke and sparks usually means a dead gpu, ive overclocked my 550 with over 300+ core clock and didnt have to touch the power limit a single bit 

[Puerto_Rico]

I would try to install it again but I'm afraid that it could damage other components

[DildorTheDecent]

FurMark isn't exactly the modern day go to stress test utility. 

 

FireStrike/Extreme/Ultras or TimeSpy Loop is often better. More realistic in terms of load. 

[Puerto_Rico]

1 hour ago, weed said:

i mean increasing the power limit for a very small overclock is a little weird but smoke and sparks usually means a dead gpu, ive overclocked my 550 with over 300+ core clock and didnt have to touch the power limit a single bit 

My stupid mistake, I'm not experieced with these things as I should be. How can I make sure everything else is ok? ATM PC is running, CPU is till OC'ed, I've ran Cinebench and everything is fine, but I'm a little bit afraid to run AIDA64. There were sparks after all, I need to make sure PSU is fine, any recomendation?

[weed]

18 hours ago, Puerto_Rico said:

My stupid mistake, I'm not experieced with these things as I should be. How can I make sure everything else is ok? ATM PC is running, CPU is till OC'ed, I've ran Cinebench and everything is fine, but I'm a little bit afraid to run AIDA64. There were sparks after all, I need to make sure PSU is fine, any recomendation?

The only thing to do is to stress the GPU to make sure there is no damage to it

[Puerto_Rico]

19 hours ago, weed said:

The only thing to do is to stress the GPU to make sure there is no damage to it

I'm afraid to put my GPU back in, ATM HD7770 is acting as a placeholder. First time I tried to boot my PC with 980 Ti after stress test failure nothing happend, it didn't boot. Later I tried to boot it again and it did boot but for a few seconds and sparks went out of the GPU and then it shut down again. So I'm afraid to test it again.

 

[weed]

8 hours ago, Puerto_Rico said:

I'm afraid to put my GPU back in, ATM HD7770 is acting as a placeholder. First time I tried to boot my PC with 980 Ti after stress test failure nothing happend, it didn't boot. Later I tried to boot it again and it did boot but for a few seconds and sparks went out of the GPU and then it shut down again. So I'm afraid to test it again.

 

Its ok to take risks

 

[0x1e]

I wouldn't take risks.

It smoked and sparked. There's no way to revive that, it's dead.

 

Pushing your luck would be stupid. Do it enough times and your GPU could dump its electricity back into the PSU which could dump it into the rest of the system, that's if the PSU doesn't give way first.

If the worst happens then you're left with a dead PC, most likely a dead motherboard. Best case a dead PSU.

[Puerto_Rico]

3 hours ago, 0x1e said:

I wouldn't take risks.

It smoked and sparked. There's no way to revive that, it's dead.

 

Pushing your luck would be stupid. Do it enough times and your GPU could dump its electricity back into the PSU which could dump it into the rest of the system, that's if the PSU doesn't give way first.

If the worst happens then you're left with a dead PC, most likely a dead motherboard. Best case a dead PSU.

Everything seems ok with the rest of the system. I'll be getting 1080 Ti as a replacement, is there a posibility that my PSU is bad/damaged from this event? I wouldn't want to fry a 1080 Ti.

[0x1e]

7 hours ago, Puerto_Rico said:

Everything seems ok with the rest of the system. I'll be getting 1080 Ti as a replacement, is there a posibility that my PSU is bad/damaged from this event? I wouldn't want to fry a 1080 Ti.

Use the system like normal with the spare GPU.

Stress test the system in various scenarios. Don't just run furmark and call it a day. Run games, render video, watch movies and so on. You want to make sure it's fine and different loads will cause the PSU to react differently under each load.