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Think my Zotac 1080 must be dying - any suggestions on things I can try ?

dubster

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Hey guys

I was hoping for a bit of advice on things I could try with my card before giving up on it.



Zotac 1080 amp extreme. Didnt use it for a couple of years as I was moving house, stuck in DIY hell etc.

Fired the PC up and the system seemed really slow. It was an X370 board so in need of an upgrade anyway so went for a X570 board, and on installing windows all seems well, with the Nvidia driver from 2020 that windows installs for you - but as soon as you install a newer Geforce driver the system starts running like an absolute dog - 5 mins to open task manager etc.

Tried everything, came to the conclusion maybe some sort of incompatability with the new motherboard - changed the board to a B550 and exactly the same thing.

So it has to be the GPU.

I've tried setting windows power to maximum performance, and nvidia control panel to prefer performance, no change.

Just wondered if anyone could suggest anything worth trying that might tell me if the card is dying? Is it worth taking it apart, redoing heatsyncs, anything like that?

Any suggestions gratefully received!
 
It's a Ryzen 5 3600, 32gb of crucial ballistix, couple of nvme drives, Win 10 x64 pro (tried win 11, same thing), 800w psu - all the same as before when it used to run fine
 
Anything in event viewer?

What clocks is the card running at on the desktop? Any chance of giving it a 3D Mark run?

Have you tried installing drivers only? What about the Studio instead of Game driver?

What other software do you run on the test build?

The symptoms you're describing don't (on the face of it) sound like a graphics card problem to me, but if they start when a driver is installed, I guess that's undeniable.
 
ooh havent checked event viewer, I will give that a whirl. I'm out at the mo but will do that and 3d mark in the morning, I'll do it before and after the driver install.
Yes drivers only is what I'm installing.
Studio? Not sure what that is ?
Not running any other software, just a fresh windows install.
I agree, symptoms dont point at gfx issues, as nothing appears weird on screen, but it's literally like chalk and cheese when I put a newer nvidia driver on and take it back off again.
 
dubster said:
Studio? Not sure what that is ?
I agree, symptoms dont point at gfx issues, as nothing appears weird on screen, but it's literally like chalk and cheese when I put a newer nvidia driver on and take it back off again.
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Studio is a professional driver meant for stuff like photoshop, supposed to be designed for reliability.

You could try a much older nvidia driver, if you're always using the newest?
 
I'll look into the studio driver thanks.

Yeh I could stick with the 2020 driver that windows gives you but as it's for vr I tended to keep up to date with drivers before. I guess as long as the old ones work. Not actually given that a try yet as I went straight to new drivers and hit all these problems
 
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