So, I had an EVGA 2060 Super on which I wasn't happy with the passive-cooling desktop stuff, but it was rock solid, never had ANY crash with that card that even remotely looked like a hardware problem.
Same PC, now have a Gigabyte RTX 3080 Gaming OC and I had 5 crashes in two weeks. 2 were during gameplay and 3 in desktop mode, possible with some super minor GPU load from a browser flash game and Photoshop.
The screen goes black, sometimes the PC reboots by itself after ~10 seconds, sometimes I have to turn it off myself, but I don't have to do the hold-power-button-for-5-seconds thing to reboot manually.
Any ideas?
More details:
- I have the sound go through the monitor, so I can't tell if I still have sound or input for a second or two after the screen goes black
- [Num] key doesn't turn off LED on keyboard in the cases where the computer doesn't reboot by itself
-newest nvidia driver is installed
- no additional OC, og Gigabyte fan profile
- Edit: Serial number starts with 2043
- haven't taken the card out and put it back in [it can't be that there's a minimal PCI-E pin overlap, or??]
- I have a really old 1200W power supply, the 3080 is connected to two different lanes with each power plug (supposedly up to 90 A when the PSU was new) [could it be that the lanes ramp up power differently and it would be smarter to connect it to only one lane and if it still crashes try the other lane? But really, at 20% desktop power load, this shouldn't be able to lead to a crash]
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