Is this a fault with my graphics card?

alexakasloth · 30 Oct 2020 at 15:43

Hello I was taking a look inside my system earlier and saw that one part of it looked strange (the 'R17' part), is it a glue or has something happened to the component?
It looked like it the same along the 3 next to them.

I do get some occasional crashes whilst gaming (black screen, no error messages) and was wondering if this was the cause of it

[edit] Should state that the card is a XFX RX 570 4gb

benjii · 30 Oct 2020 at 16:22

I'm not sure what the glue is from, but it's on the outside casing of one of the VRMs. That won't cause any problems.

Are those aftermarket heatsinks? The silver ones.

alexakasloth · 30 Oct 2020 at 16:27

Yes they are part of the Morpheus II package, temps get to 81c after a long stress test with furmark.
The card was used for mining by the previous owner but having stressed tested it for an hour it didn't come up with any issues at the time.

[edit] Will try re-installing AMD drivers and games. I mostly play CS:GO and it was crashing occasionally when it was a new round, and stopped playing black mesa as the game would crash on the later levels. All crashing requires rebooting.

alexakasloth · 30 Oct 2020 at 17:22

Trying the start of black Mesa with a fresh install of drivers and the game files.
Temps seem ok across the board and no crashes. GPU 78c, CPU 60c, m.2 35c, MB 41c.
Possibly it was a driver/ file issue then.

mickyflinn · 30 Oct 2020 at 17:27

Does it crash in all games or just one , if only one that points to the game itself.

alexakasloth · 30 Oct 2020 at 17:37

mickyflinn said:
Does it crash in all games or just one , if only one that points to the game itself.

Two games have done so in the past, but the crash is different.
CS:GO will crash to black screen and require restart. Usually happens when a new round starts.
Black Mesa was playable in the beginning and then crashes happened more frequently, at one of later surface levels (surface tension) the graphics would revert back to potato settings and still crash 5 seconds in. Black screen, audio jutters and requires restart. Seems to be better now restarting the game but I will try one of my game saves at a later level and see if there are any problems.

alexakasloth · 30 Oct 2020 at 17:43

Picking up where I left the game off it hasn't crashed a few minutes in, looking promising.

RexAlba · 30 Oct 2020 at 17:54

I think that is a coil and the glue will be to reduce coil whine maybe?
Im slightly clueless here but saw something along those lines in a video a while back.