Hi all
I don't usually post anything on forums but there is a first time for everything...including dying graphics cards.
So the story begins...On the 15 February 2019 I purchased from ** No competitors ** a 2080ti. I was aware of reports of dying 2080ti but I took the risk...
I received my card the same day as I drove all the way from London to Portsmouth to pick it up. A great drive and a happy occasion. No Traffic
The card I purchased was a GV-N208TAORUSX WB-11GC. Essentially 2080ti with a water block already stuck on by Aorus.
Same day I got home and plumbed this bad boy into my rig.
Right.... here is where I got worried but I don't give up that easy.
First time booted up. Got some artifacts on the boot screen straight away. I was like really..... so I restart the computer in the hope they would go away...and they did. At this point, I thought maybe just a glitch.
I installed the latest nividia drivers. I also got Anthem and BF5 free so I redeemed.. happy days.
I was monitoring temperatures closely as I have OCD with these thing. I was getting 31 degrees idle, but I remember I was getting 27 degrees on my 1080ti with a phanteks block. I thought the 2080ti is a more powerful card so that ok.
Fired up Anthem (good game). Maxed out setting and running 60 frames solid. Temperature after 2 hours of gaming 51 degrees.
So......since the 15 Feb I have been playing games may be on the weekends for 5 hours or so and weekends maybe 1 hour to 30mins.
The sad bit....Yesterday at 23:18 I was playing Anthem doing Heart of rage. Guns blazing etc etc..... temperatures were looking good. 2080ti : 47 degrees and CPU: 39 degrees. All of a sudden I saw little artifacts appear all over my screens like some evil virus was attacked. Before I could even utter a word on discord...both my screens went off.... I was like wtf.
I turn around to look at the rig in all her glory. Hard drives still running and pump all on. I tried to ctrl alt delete nothing. I have to reset. I did.....
Now when the computer started up I heard the single boots beep. I thought good. But I noticed nothing was on the screen, no boot logo nothing. I then heard the 4 beeps and took a look at my motherboard error led. The VGA light was on. The first thing in my mind was has my 2080ti died? Really? Me?
I did the usual cleared my cmos, re-seated my 2080ti and disconnected all power etc for 1 hour. Nothing...at this point I wanted to cross out any chance of something causing this. So I removed my 2080ti and put my GTX 680 in. The system booted up so fast and nice. At this point, I have two feeling. Happiness and sadness. I was happy that my old GTX 680 classified was alive but sad my 2080ti was confirmed died.
I put my trusted Aorus extreme 1080ti back and all good.
Now I have to contact ..... on Monday get my 2080ti sorted....
Now I will say that I have used ...... for previous orders and I have a Aoruis 1080ti which is still going strong. All good.
I never even overclocked my 2080ti or even benchmarked....
I may have got old stock.. but still the agro of a faulty card....
I just want to say directly to Nivida.
The 2080ti failures are creating a bad atmosphere for nividia. I'm certain your internal engineering department are aware of why these failures are occurring.
I don't usually post anything on forums but there is a first time for everything...including dying graphics cards.
So the story begins...On the 15 February 2019 I purchased from ** No competitors ** a 2080ti. I was aware of reports of dying 2080ti but I took the risk...
I received my card the same day as I drove all the way from London to Portsmouth to pick it up. A great drive and a happy occasion. No Traffic
The card I purchased was a GV-N208TAORUSX WB-11GC. Essentially 2080ti with a water block already stuck on by Aorus.
Same day I got home and plumbed this bad boy into my rig.
Right.... here is where I got worried but I don't give up that easy.
First time booted up. Got some artifacts on the boot screen straight away. I was like really..... so I restart the computer in the hope they would go away...and they did. At this point, I thought maybe just a glitch.
I installed the latest nividia drivers. I also got Anthem and BF5 free so I redeemed.. happy days.
I was monitoring temperatures closely as I have OCD with these thing. I was getting 31 degrees idle, but I remember I was getting 27 degrees on my 1080ti with a phanteks block. I thought the 2080ti is a more powerful card so that ok.
Fired up Anthem (good game). Maxed out setting and running 60 frames solid. Temperature after 2 hours of gaming 51 degrees.
So......since the 15 Feb I have been playing games may be on the weekends for 5 hours or so and weekends maybe 1 hour to 30mins.
The sad bit....Yesterday at 23:18 I was playing Anthem doing Heart of rage. Guns blazing etc etc..... temperatures were looking good. 2080ti : 47 degrees and CPU: 39 degrees. All of a sudden I saw little artifacts appear all over my screens like some evil virus was attacked. Before I could even utter a word on discord...both my screens went off.... I was like wtf.
I turn around to look at the rig in all her glory. Hard drives still running and pump all on. I tried to ctrl alt delete nothing. I have to reset. I did.....
Now when the computer started up I heard the single boots beep. I thought good. But I noticed nothing was on the screen, no boot logo nothing. I then heard the 4 beeps and took a look at my motherboard error led. The VGA light was on. The first thing in my mind was has my 2080ti died? Really? Me?
I did the usual cleared my cmos, re-seated my 2080ti and disconnected all power etc for 1 hour. Nothing...at this point I wanted to cross out any chance of something causing this. So I removed my 2080ti and put my GTX 680 in. The system booted up so fast and nice. At this point, I have two feeling. Happiness and sadness. I was happy that my old GTX 680 classified was alive but sad my 2080ti was confirmed died.
I put my trusted Aorus extreme 1080ti back and all good.
Now I have to contact ..... on Monday get my 2080ti sorted....
Now I will say that I have used ...... for previous orders and I have a Aoruis 1080ti which is still going strong. All good.
I never even overclocked my 2080ti or even benchmarked....
I may have got old stock.. but still the agro of a faulty card....
I just want to say directly to Nivida.
The 2080ti failures are creating a bad atmosphere for nividia. I'm certain your internal engineering department are aware of why these failures are occurring.
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