Options for a failing/failed graphics card? (EVGA 1080ti SC2 Hybrid)

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Following on from this thread (Here), it looks like I have a failing GPU that's out of warranty so what do I do with it?

Contact EVGA and see if they'll repair/refurbish it at my cost? By the time I've covered shipping (likely out of the U.K. and the repair cost I'll probably be looking at a bill for around £150-200 (guessing here as they haven't replied to me yet) and the going rate at the minute (pre 3000 series release) for these in full working condition is about £320 so I may get £120-170 back minus eBay's 10%, PayPal's cut & shipping.

Sell it as is on eBay declaring the fault? If i'm lucky i'll get £100 (minus eBay's 10%, PayPal's cut & shipping) for it from someone who wants to either take a gamble on fixing it or just strip the cooler off of it.

Try to fix it? Not even sure where to start with this because the issue is seemingly random meaning I can't make it repeat when I want so I don't even know what's actually wrong with it.

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I bought this new for £819.98 and it's lasted 40 months so it's cost me £20.50 per month to own/use this GPU, that's less than ideal! :(

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Interesting i have that exact card and mine has been playing up recently

I haven't read much of your other thread, what exactly is the issue and what steps have you taken already to try and diagnose the card?

edit : just skim read the thread and don't think i saw you or anyone else mention these few bits and i think may be worth checking out.

#1 is it overclocked if yes remove the overclock if not possibly give it a bit more juice as it could be core degradation meaning you need more power to sustain the same mhz.

#2 is the vram overclocked or stock? memory degradation is a very real thing and in fact was a huge issue for 2080ti's in particular those that were using micron made vram as opposed to the Samsung made stuff.. A known solution to them crashing is down clocking the vram 1000mhz and as a rule this didn't seem to massively hurt performance. So maybe drop your memory speeds way down and see if that helps any.
 
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Id try fix it yourself buddy, or sell it as faulty and take the hit. With new cards coming out soon you could probably replace for the same card but a lot less, or different brand and again a lot less.

Or if your looking to upgrade this is a good time with new cards coming out i guess. Have you tried to downclock the card with a tad of an undervolt at all ? , pretty sure i saw that on a few failing cards that solved black screen issues
 
FloppyPoppy said:
Interesting i have that exact card and mine has been playing up recently

I haven't read much of your other thread, what exactly is the issue and what steps have you taken already to try and diagnose the card?
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It just randomly started giving me black screens, the PC was still running but the screen would go black and the monitor would loose signal forcing me to hard power down the PC. The only clue the PC would give me a out what was causing it was a Windows notification stating 'display driver failed to start'.

There were no other symptoms such as artifacts or overheating. I tried all the usual DDU and reinstall of drivers etc but the only thing that stopped the problem was swapping the GPU.
 
stephen0205 said:
Id try fix it yourself buddy, or sell it as faulty and take the hit. With new cards coming out soon you could probably replace for the same card but a lot less, or different brand and again a lot less.

Or if your looking to upgrade this is a good time with new cards coming out i guess. Have you tried to downclock the card with a tad of an undervolt at all ? , pretty sure i saw that on a few failing cards that solved black screen issues
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I already bought a replacement exactly the same, a new 3000 series would bottleneck my 7700k. I'll do a new build when the 3080 ti/super comes out, maybe with 11th gen Intel CPU as well.
 
RipGroove said:
I did, but only to reapply thermal paste.
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Was that after you started seeing the issues with the card or prior to it?

It sounds very much like a card power issue, or BGA solder problem. When I say power I mean regulation, due to one or more of the components on the PCB either being faulty, or possibly just failing.

If it were me (and I fix a lot of faulty cards), I'd just fix it myself, or take the hit on it if you can't/don't want the hassle.

I know you say it is random, but can you get it to go faulty almost every day, or is it really infrequent?
 
Journey said:
Was that after you started seeing the issues with the card or prior to it?

It sounds very much like a card power issue, or BGA solder problem. When I say power I mean regulation, due to one or more of the components on the PCB either being faulty, or possibly just failing.

If it were me (and I fix a lot of faulty cards), I'd just fix it myself, or take the hit on it if you can't/don't want the hassle.

I know you say it is random, but can you get it to go faulty almost every day, or is it really infrequent?
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I did the paste after I started having issues, the problem started on Tuesday where it happened probably 3 times all day and then over the next few days it got more frequent until the point where it would happen right away almost everytime I booted the PC up. At first it was happening at seemingly random times, idle, browsing, gaming etc but I couldn't actually make it happen.
 
RipGroove said:
I wouldn't even know where to start with regards to fixing it, I'm not very electronically minded but I'll try anything once.
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I guess the best thing to do would be a GPU/PCB bake on it, if you don't know how to do it or what it is there are plenty of 'guides' but basically you strip the card down and put the bare card in the oven for X amount of at X temperature and it helps fill in micro cracks in the solder/BGA solder joints which can help get the card working again, sometimes for 3 weeks, sometimes 3 years.
 
Journey said:
I guess the best thing to do would be a GPU/PCB bake on it, if you don't know how to do it or what it is there are plenty of 'guides' but basically you strip the card down and put the bare card in the oven for X amount of at X temperature and it helps fill in micro cracks in the solder/BGA solder joints which can help get the card working again, sometimes for 3 weeks, sometimes 3 years.
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That's not a bad shout, I repaired one of my old LCD TV's like that before, I guess I have nothing to loose at this point.
 
RipGroove said:
That's not a bad shout, I repaired one of my old LCD TV's like that before, I guess I have nothing to loose at this point.
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Just be careful and take your time, don't over do it, and DO NOT MOVE IT until fully cooled. Make sure you;ve got some Iso Alcohol handy to clean the card up properly prior to the bake.
 
mickyflinn said:
I see in your other thread you borrowed a 1080ti but could you test your 1080ti in another pc ?
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I did borrow one yes and the problem went away instantly, and obviously I've now bought another 1080ti and that's been fine too now for 2 days without a black screen. I can test my faulty one in my brother's PC if need be though.
 
Well EVGA replied to me and it's quite clear they won't offer any kind of repair/rufurb at my expense, all they said was it's out of warranty which I already knew. I've always gone with EVGA GPU's but their unwillingness to help has made me question whether I will again.

And after thinking about it I think I'm just going to put it on eBay as is because if I attempted a repair and by some miracle it worked, I'd still declare that fact so I reckon it would actually hurt the value, there's probably more value in it to someone who would like to have a go at repairing it themselves.
 
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RipGroove said:
And after thinking about it I think I'm just going to put it on eBay as is because if I attempted a repair and by some miracle it worked, I'd still declare that fact so I reckon it would actually hurt the value, there's probably more value in it to someone who would like to have a go at repairing it themselves.
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Shame, let me know when it is up for auction so I can look for it and maybe place a bid, shame you don't have MM access. :(
 
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