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It bit the dust

The 3070 Ti arrived yesterday, in the meantime I had been using an old 2010 laptop with GeForce 330M and thought I would try Nvidia GeForce now. I went with the 3080 package, and it worked really well, considering the age of the laptop and under recommended graphics card specs.

Looking at prices, I should be able to afford a 3080 Ti LHR next month but will probably hold off until the 4000 series become available, it certainly seems to be the best course of action.
 
13oots2 said:
Have had no end of problems with a 3070 I bought second hand. When I first got it during the second heatwave it was hitting a really high temp, I then reapplied thermal paste and pads, what a faff that was, and all seemed well.

I bought some new Team Group memory a few days back and was in the process of overclocking it. I kept getting black screens in Memtest and assumed that I had pushed the memory too far, eventually I put the BIOS back to stock and had the same issue. I was also getting random black screens in Windows.

I took the 3070 out and checked if the contacts were clean, then pugged it back in.....nothing. Numerous attemts to get it working have failed and I am now sat using an ancient laptop until next month.

Moral of the story, buy new and don't take it apart!
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FleaBay Ex-Mining card?
 
13oots2 said:
Fleabay yes! I doubt it had been mining as it was LHR, still not right looking back at it. My 1070 Ti has much smoother frame rate despite being much slower than the 3070.
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Nvidia accidentally released a driver that bypasses LHR.
 
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