Is my GPU dying?

superleeds27

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Bit of a strange on here.

Over the last month or two, I've had random issues when opening images in affinity and Photoshop. I've also had it once when opening a video in handbrake.

Basically what will happen.is the image will open in affinity, but the PC lags like hell. Things still function, but if I move the mouse, it does staggered movement. Hitting the start button, it appears maybe 5-15 seconds afterwards. Reboot and the system is fine.

Here's the weird thing. This doesn't happen all the time? Just seems totally random? It's hard to try and see what's happening when everything is in go slow mode.

It's also happened once yesterday when after the reboot, I went into the Nvidia control panel settings and it started lagging again, which made me think GPU.

Anyone got any suggestions/advice/thoughts at all?

I know this is feels a bit needle in the haystack! Just wondered if anyone has every experienced the same thing?
 
Sounds like you have something causing stuttering. Have you tried to view task manager at the time the stuttering occurs?

This doesn't sound like a dying GPU to me.
 
Bad driver install can do that, also hardware acceleration issues in an app like discord or a browser.

I'd have a look at task manager as suggested above and the event viewer.

Doesn't scream bad graphics to me either, though always possible.
 
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aaronyuri said:
Sounds like you have something causing stuttering. Have you tried to view task manager at the time the stuttering occurs?

This doesn't sound like a dying GPU to me.
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Have tried but it's an absolute nightmare. The next time it happens (if it does) I'll try do task manager and see what it's reporting.

Tetras said:
Bad driver install can do that, also hardware acceleration issues in an app like discord or a browser.

I'd have a look at task manager as suggested above and the event viewer.

Doesn't scream bad graphics to me either, though always possible.
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Im pretty sure I did get task manager up once when it happened but nothing jumped out as, uh oh. Again, if it happens again, I'll take a better look and investigate.
 
Could it be expanding the swap file because its running low on RAM?

Antivirus software scanning the file as you open it?

Might also be worth using crystal disk info to check drive health status.

Sounds like you would need to leave task manger / resource monitor open in the background otherwise by the time you've opened it everything will have gone back to normal.
 
NetMan said:
Could it be expanding the swap file because its running low on RAM?

Antivirus software scanning the file as you open it?

Might also be worth using crystal disk info to check drive health status.

Sounds like you would need to leave task manger / resource monitor open in the background otherwise by the time you've opened it everything will have gone back to normal.
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See that's the thing, I'm not sure if it does ever go back to normal as I just tend to reboot the machine.

Can't see it being RAM, there's plenty.

AV - possibly, but then wouldn't it do it every time and not just randomly?

With the way it decided to freak out when I was just looking at the NVIDIA control panel makes me think it could be a driver issue, or something along the lines of that?
 
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I was thinking more of the problem you had when opening the images / video when I posted rather than the issue you had with Nvidia control panel.

Is there a newer version of the Nvidia driver available / if not have you tried going back to an earlier version?

Power save settings was it idle before you opened the vid etc - maybe try setting performace mode for a bit.

Something simple like a bad sata cable can cause weird problems.

Did you check event logs?


Think Id still check drive status with crystal disk info and mayde run a disk check.

It doesn't help when Microsoft keep releasing updates that break things.
 
superleeds27 said:
Still not been able to replicate this since, weirdly

For arguments sake, what would the correct path/upgrade be here? 5070?
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Does your pc have the nahimic driver/service running? I had some odd behaviour til I removed it. Creality software even had a popup telling me to remove it too.
 
Tetras said:
What do you have now? Both card and machine specs.

Intended resolution/refresh and type of games is also helpful.
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X570 Aorus Elite
3600
2070 Super Gigabyte OC Gaming
16GB 3200 DDR4

27" / 1440p

Games, at the minute Division 2, probably Destiny 2, Borderlands 4 etc.

Noticed the card screaming a little more than I remember it, average temp 79c, Hot spot 105c
 
superleeds27 said:
Noticed the card screaming a little more than I remember it, average temp 79c, Hot spot 105c
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You may want to consider a repaste. Here is a thread relating to a recent card from the same gen.

superleeds27 said:
3600
2070 Super Gigabyte OC Gaming

27" / 1440p

Games, at the minute Division 2, probably Destiny 2, Borderlands 4 etc.
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superleeds27 said:
For arguments sake, what would the correct path/upgrade be here? 5070?
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A 5070 is twice as fast, according to TPU's GPU database. 9060 XT 16GB is about half that number.

For 1440p, I'd recommend a 9070 non-XT or 5070 as the minimum.

In TPU's testing, 9070 was a good chunk faster in Borderlands 4, not sure about the other two.
 
2nd hand 4070 would be fine. Especially if you are not going to change the 3600 CPU to a 5600.

3600 will hold anything back at 1440. Might be a case for the 9070 not-XT with AMD drivers being less of a CPU hog.
 
Trickle said:
2nd hand 4070 would be fine. Especially if you are not going to change the 3600 CPU to a 5600.

3600 will hold anything back at 1440. Might be a case for the 9070 not-XT with AMD drivers being less of a CPU hog.
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I had thought about the 3600 too actually. Been looking at the 5600/5700/5800 series
 
Tetras said:
You may want to consider a repaste. Here is a thread relating to a recent card from the same gen.



A 5070 is twice as fast, according to TPU's GPU database. 9060 XT 16GB is about half that number.

For 1440p, I'd recommend a 9070 non-XT or 5070 as the minimum.

In TPU's testing, 9070 was a good chunk faster in Borderlands 4, not sure about the other two.
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Any particular make/model of the 9070 that stands out at all?

The Asus Prime OC/Powercolor Hellhound is what I'm drawn too at the minute.
 
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superleeds27 said:
Any particular make/model of the 9070 that stands out at all?

The Asus Prime OC/Powercolor Hellhound is what I'm drawn too at the minute.
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At OCUK, the Prime is £530 and the cheapest 9070 XT is £570 (XFX), so I think it would have to be the Prime, otherwise it wouldn't make sense (unless you were strongly power constrained).

I don't know what the difference is between the Prime and the Prime Evo.

At OCUK, the Hellhound is out of stock, but in HUB's testing of the 9070 XT models, the model performed better than the Prime in almost all tests, with the exception of memory, at which the Prime was one of the best and the Hellhound one of the worst. Personally, I'd prefer cooler memory than a cooler GPU.
 
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I'll keep my eyes peeled for the Prime then.

Going back to my OP, i think i might have solved the issue of the lockup. Looks like it's the monitor?

Toggling it on and off seems to do the trick. Sounds bizarre I know.
 
Get a copy of MX-Linux on a USB Stick,Boot into a live session, the KDE has GIMP preinstalled, edit some photos and see if theres any issues, if not its
not your hardware. You can also select MemTest86 in the MX-Linux boot menu,
my Dads PC started being a bit glitchy, it was still fully working but played up,
turned out to be a slight fault on one of the ram sticks.
 
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