Hey everyone,
I got my brand new Gigabyte RTX 3080 Gaming OC a month ago and found out when replacing my older GPU, that it has a bent pin on one of the two 8-pin power connectors, as reported by many others 3080 owners (especially Gigabyte).
Considering that I live in Morocco and therefore that there's no RMA here, I decided to use a thin screwdriver to "fix" the bent pin. After that, I managed to power up the new GPU and it seemed to be working fine. I ran Time Spy and had a score of 14,717 (with the GPU at OC mode and an i7-8700k at stock clock, 32Gb RAM 3000 Mhz CL15, 750W 80+ Gold PSU).
However, I decided to overlock the CPU at 4.7Ghz all cores and change the thermal paste. Removed the GPU to do that, and had to bend the pin again to plug to PCIe power cables. A second Time Spy benchmark was done and I was expecting better results, but.... even though the overall score was higher, the graphics score was actually lower. I even overcloked the GPU (+50 on core clock and +39 on memory clock) for a third benchmark, and the graphics score was even lower that the 2nd...
There may be two explanations : I either damaged my 3080 by trying to fix the bent pin, or Time Spy is beyond my comprehension. Can someone please explain what's happening?
Thank you in advance for your help, and apologies for the long post.
I got my brand new Gigabyte RTX 3080 Gaming OC a month ago and found out when replacing my older GPU, that it has a bent pin on one of the two 8-pin power connectors, as reported by many others 3080 owners (especially Gigabyte).
Considering that I live in Morocco and therefore that there's no RMA here, I decided to use a thin screwdriver to "fix" the bent pin. After that, I managed to power up the new GPU and it seemed to be working fine. I ran Time Spy and had a score of 14,717 (with the GPU at OC mode and an i7-8700k at stock clock, 32Gb RAM 3000 Mhz CL15, 750W 80+ Gold PSU).
However, I decided to overlock the CPU at 4.7Ghz all cores and change the thermal paste. Removed the GPU to do that, and had to bend the pin again to plug to PCIe power cables. A second Time Spy benchmark was done and I was expecting better results, but.... even though the overall score was higher, the graphics score was actually lower. I even overcloked the GPU (+50 on core clock and +39 on memory clock) for a third benchmark, and the graphics score was even lower that the 2nd...
There may be two explanations : I either damaged my 3080 by trying to fix the bent pin, or Time Spy is beyond my comprehension. Can someone please explain what's happening?
Thank you in advance for your help, and apologies for the long post.