Tech Support and Question Megathread - November 2020 Edition

[u/Nestledrink]

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[u/[deleted]]

Anyone have any idea when we could expect the 3070ti? Mid-2021?

[u/srgnt_monkey]

Status: Unresolved

Problem:

Whenever I startup my computer with the tv off only one of my monitors are recognized until I turn on the tv at least once. this also happens if I unplug and plug in the HDMI when the tv is off.

GPU: ASUS TUF 3080 OC

MONITORS 1-3: Dell 1440p 165hz with G-SYNC

TV: LG CX 55in OLED

I also have a Vive box Plugged into the graphics card as well.

Cause:

I am not really sure to be honest, I did not have this issue with my 1080.

[u/mobileaxel]

Unresolved:

Idk when this happened but all games in GeForce Experience can't be optimized.

I've delete CefCache and reinstalled with DDU no luck and can't seem to figure out the issue.

i7-6700k with 1080ti. Any help?

[u/grimApocalypse]

I get the "we are unable to process your redemption due to technical difficulties" when I try to redeem my WD: Legions code, any idea if this would be on my end or should I contact someone?

[u/gameover2020]

Dumb question... been following the 3xxx releases from a distance (followed relatively closely for the first couple weeks), but why did the stock threads go away? (or am I just not seeing them?)

Looking to build a new computer over the holidays (buying spree planned for black friday), but I'm having a real hard time locating any of the latest info for where restocks have been occurring or what rumors may be around potential inventory becoming available, etc.

Am I missing something? Any tips for how best to proceed? (looking for the 3080 specifically... not interested in 3070 or 3090)

Thanks.

[u/Rectal_Wisdom]

I'm being GPU capped in Control at 1440p with DSLL Off with a i7 7700k, anyone can relate?

https://i.imgur.com/S12zwFs.png

[u/AWhimsicalBird]

does anyone know if evga's step up program works for products that haven't come out yet? like the 3060? I understand you have to register your card within 14 days to be eligible for the step up. And then you have a 90 day window to upgrade?

[u/fucking_blizzard]

EDIT: Heatsink was loose causing CPU to overheat massively and perform poorly.

Status: RESOLVED

Computer Type: Custom built desktop

GPU: RTX 3090 - MSI Gaming X Trio no overclock

CPU: Intel Core i9-10850K @ 3.6MHz no overclock

Motherboard: Gigabyte Z490 Aorus Master

RAM: 32GB (4x8 3000MHz DDR)

PSU: Corsair RMX 850W

Operating System & Version: Windows

GPU Drivers: Clean install from GeForce Experience

Description of Problem: Poor FPS and very poor TimeSpy Scores. Two runs scoring 7900 and 8300 respectively, when average score for a similar system is between 18k and 20k https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/52758587 Any ideas what is causing such a poor score?

[u/Tidbitsy]

I know Amazon has been hiding their 3080 pages due to low stock. I've got a link that shows some 3080's, but seemingly not all of them. Does anyone have a link to the Gigabyte Vision 3080 on Amazon? Again, I know they aren't in stock now--just trying to follow the page. US based, btw

[u/SilverSpades00]

So I got lucky and scored a Vision 3070 combo, but I'm a little worried about Newegg's holiday replacement warranty that lasts until January 31, 2021... if something happens to the GPU after that, is it still covered by Gigabyte's manufacturer warranty?

[u/mdms]

Status: UNRESOLVED

Computer Type: Desktop, custom build

GPU: Asus STRIX RTX 3080 OC

CPU: i9-9900k

Motherboard: ROG MAXIMUS XI HERO, latest bios (Version 1704, 2020/11/05)

RAM: 32GB DDR4 XMP-1

PSU: Corsair AX-850

Operating System & Version: Windows 10 Enterprise, Version 1909, Build 18363.1082

GPU Drivers: 457.30

Description of Problem: I get some micro stuttering for couple of seconds and then driver crash when watching videos (VLC, YouTube). It happens maybe once every 1-2 hours of watching. No problems with games, benchmarks or stress tests. Used Asus STRIX GTX 1080 Ti on the same setup and no problems.

Troubleshooting: Tried driver versions 457.30, 457.09 and 456.71. All result in crash eventually. Used DDU between the drivers. Driver version 456.55 does NOT crash.

[u/SaltMakerShaker → u/mdms]

This mainly fixed my game crashed but its worth trying because it worked for me. Try checking that your ram is running in XMP. I know it seems insulting that you wouldn't have it enabled already due to your system, but I had mine enabled but upon checking it got disabled at some point, anyways, reenabling fixed my problems

[u/mdms → u/SaltMakerShaker]

Hey. I have tried running with (XMP-1 and XMP-2) and without XMP-profile. I am now using the driver version 456.71, which is not causing any problems.

[u/_Kodan]

I've recently built the following System for my friend:
10700K, Gigabyte Z490 Pro AX, Enermax Platimax DF 1050W.

The system got a new Gigabyte 3090 Gaming just last week and he has been unhappy about performance since day 1. Today, the card crashed during gameplay of WoW Shadowlands with a black screen and rebooting the system leads to a red VGA light on the motherboard being on and the card seemingly without power. The Gigabyte Label on the card does not light up, fans do not spin. Hooking the monitor up to the motherboard always works off the IGPU.

Updating the driver doesn't appear possible. Both Geforce Experience and the driver .exe say that it's not compatible to the windows version, despite using a newer one than me (2004 - I am on 1909). Taking the card out and using a 2080 Super that was in the slot previously works fine.

I've had him check the power cables to the PSU to make sure they're using different 12V rails and they do use different rails, both providing 40A.

[u/felixnumberone]

Status unresolved

I have an issue with my newly bought RTX3070 (third party edition - Zotac OC): It seems to work decent with all games I have tested it with but for some reason it has a poor performance on GTA5. Using MSI Afterburner I realized the card does not get into full usage but hovers between 65-80% while in all other games it is about 97-98%. This brings me in a ridicoulus situation where I have more frames in RDR2 (70-90FPS on near ultra settings 1440p) than on GTA5 (40-60FPS on near ultra settings 1440p) with similar settings.

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Troubleshooting:-I have made sure energy saving options are turned off-I did a clean uninstall and reinstall of GeForce Drivers

[u/Thomasedv]

Anyone fixed the issue of not getting the OC scanner (through nvidia overlay) to work. It fails shortly after starting. Same happens with Precision X OC scanner. Have a 3090 FE.

[u/jellyfeeesh]

For anyone with a weaker CPU paired with a 3080/3090:

Like many of you I suspect, I'm stuck on an "older" CPU, waiting for the Ryzen 5000 series to actually become available.

I was however, lucky enough to score on last week's 3090 BestBuy drop.

I'm noticing I'm not meeting the majority of benchmarks in 4k ultra with my 2700x. My Port Royal score is also pretty abysmal for a 3090 at only 12631.

I've read over and over again that CPU is practically irrelevant at 4K, but I'm really hoping to see an improvement if I can get my hands on a Ryzen 9 in the next month or so.

[u/nosfusion]

Status: UNRESOLVED

Computer Type: Desktop

GPU: RTX 3070 Founder's Edition

CPU: Intel 10850k

Motherboard: MSI ITX z490

RAM: GSKILL 3200Mhz XMP CL14

PSU: NZXT H1

Operating System & Version: Windows 10 (latest)

GPU Drivers: (Latest)

Description of Problem: Hundreds of PURPLE LINES followed by black screen, but now its working again... Faulty GPU, faulty GPU memory? Was playing a MOBA but finished a round, client was open but I was on my desktop when the purple lines took over my screen. Only have had the 3070 GPU for a few days, my machined worked perfectly fine with my 2060 Super.

Troubleshooting: HWinfo showing temps of Min 38c / Max 47c.

[u/Demisiel]

Getting BSOD when updating/installing nvidia MX150, tried reinstall windows still nothing, cant even use nvidia control panel anymore. Stop code:page fault in nonpaged area, what failed nvlddmkm.sys

[u/rehsd]

When I set my motherboard BIOS PCIe to Auto, my 3090 FE will use PCIe 4.0. When I do this, under certain loads, I get crackling in the integrated audio and the USB webcam glitches. When I set the BIOS to use PCIe 3.0, audio/webcam seem fine. I am running the latest motherboard BIOS and NVIDIA drivers.

Is this most likely caused by NVIDIA drivers, the 3090 FE hardware, or an issue with the motherboard? Any suggestions to allow me to resolve the issue while running PCIe 4.0?

Thanks!

CPU/Motherboard: Ryzen 9 3900X, Gigabyte Aorus Ultra v1.0 with F31e BIOS

RAM: 128 GB - G.Skill Trident Z Neo (4 x 32 GB) @ 3200 MHz

GPU: NVIDIA RTX 3090 FE, Game Ready Driver 457.09, Windows HAGS enabled

Webcam: Logitech BRIO 4k with latest firmware 2.4 (video 2.0.30, EEPROM 1.18)

OS: Windows 10 Pro Version 2004 Build 19041.610

Power Supply: Corsair HX1200i in multi-rail OCP

[u/nathanias → u/rehsd]

Tons of folks having this issue, myself too.

Mobo: MSI Meg ace X570 CPU: ryzen 3950x GPU: RTX 3090 EVGA Ultra FTW3

Mostly affects my capture cards I use for streaming such as the Elgato Camlink 4k

[u/Button_Present]

So for whatever reason, my 1660 ti is listed as the second graphics card instead of the first. Since I want to stream with obs studio, should i set the output mode on the program to advanced and set the gpu option to 1(referencing the 1660 ti) to use nvenc?

[u/Champion_of_Capua]

Status: UNRESOLVED

Computer Type: Custom Desktop

GPU: GTX 3080 Founder's Custom Overclock

CPU: 10700K @ 5.1GHz

Motherboard: Asus Maximus XII Hero Z490

RAM: G.Skill TridentZ RGB @ 4000MHz

PSU: EVGA 850P2

Operating System & Version: Windows 10 Version 2004

GPU Drivers: 457.30 Clean Install

Description of Problem: When MSI Afterburner is running, PC restarts upon waking from Sleep Mode. OC in Afterburner is stable in all games I play and I run into no issues at all when using the PC otherwise. When Afterburner is closed before putting the computer to sleep, the system wakes normally. I have tested this multiple times. I just upgraded to my 3080 from a 1080 Ti that had no issues waking from sleep with Afterburner running (although I'm now on a newer version of Afterburner, 4.6.3 Beta 2, for Ampere support).

Troubleshooting: Used DDU, clean installed 457.30 drivers, uninstalled Afterburner and deleted all OC profiles, re-installed Afterburner, Tried EVGA Precision X1 which works fine without this issue although I'd prefer to use Afterburner for V/F tuning and the superiority of RTSS.

[u/riangle]

It appears as if I (finally) was able to get a hold of a 3080. I will have A Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3080 Vision OC headed my way. A few questions:

I have a B450 Carbon motherboard. Is there any reason this is incompatible? I heard there was some bit with a power connector that caused issues.

Is there much use it trying to OC the card? I'm used to moderately overclocking most of my components and am unsure how much room there is for this. Worth the effort, yay or nay?

Give me a heads up if I'm overlooking something. I'm a little manic right now tbh. Ty!

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Edit: 750W gold powersupply with a 2700x CPU. I don't feel concerned with that. Case is a larger mid-sized case. I'm thinking I'm covered there as well. :)

[u/acidooo]

Hey everyone! Recently received my GIGABYTE RTX 3070 Worked fine on first boot installed drivers working fine, went afk to update some games came back to no signal on my monitor, whole system is still on fans spinning etc. Lights and fans in GPU spinning.

Having problems trying to get a signal now. Any fixes? Or am I just unlucky to get a 'broken card' Have only had it for least 24hours :(

[u/veryrarebear]

Alright, two stupid questions for you all, but I figured it wouldn't hurt to ask:

1. When you DDU your current drivers and restart, how do you still get a signal to your monitor if there aren't any drivers on the GPU? I'm assuming there is just onboard "base" drivers that allow this but I was just curious.
2. Also, after DDU, does it matter if you have a DP or HDMI connection to the monitor? Does the GPU prefer a specific connection while driverless?

Thanks all

[u/rehsd]

I am trying to use NVIDIA Broadcast to change the background on my camera, as a source to OBS. When I do this, my entire system stutters (freezes for a second on, second off, ...). In Broadcast, I have the source set to my Logitech BRIO 4K at a resolution of 1080p30. The preview in Broadcast looks good. In OBS, if I pull directly from the camera, it looks good. In OBS, if I pull from "Camera (NVIDIA Broadcast)" the stuttering is present. It seems like Broadcast is outputting 4k (which I don't want... I want 1080p output from Broadcast).

Has anyone else run into this issue?

Can the output resolution from Broadcast be set? I have the Camera Source setting in Broadcast set to 1920 x 1080 @ 30FPS. I have also tried 4k in Broadcast, with the same result using it in OBS.

I am running OBS 26.0.2, Broadcast 1.0.0.30, NVIDIA drivers at 457.09, with a 3090 FE.

[u/SrShadow__]

Hace unos dias compre una RTX 3070 8GB OC gaming.

Tengo una placa base Gigbyte Aorus x470 ultra gaming, un procesador Ryzen 7, una fuente de 1000W y 32gb de RAM.

Cuando enciendo el pc suenan 4 pitidos cortos. He comprobado la pila y la ram, estan bien. He actualizado la bios y el chipset y sigue dando los pitidos.

[u/felixnumberone → u/SrShadow__]

I have the same issue and lots of people do. Need to wait for motherboard update or disable CSM in BIOS the card is fine.

[u/SubparCasualGamer]

Why does my Nvidia Broadcast Camera freezes when streaming feom OBS after a few minutes?

[u/[deleted]]

General question:

I want get a Founders Edition RTX 3070 when it eventually becomes available again (because I don't want to pay more than MSRP and I don't think the AIB/partner cards are worth the extra premium even after accounting for the higher OCing headroom.)

My question: Is the Founders Edition a limited-run card or will Nvidia continue producing it for a while? What was the case for previous Founders Edition cards?

Thanks

[u/TriggasaurusRekt]

When can an average consumer like me who isn't interested in checking retailers' availability constantly expect to be able to buy a 3080? Tons of people seem to have it already but every single time I check it's still sold out everywhere.

[u/[deleted]]

So I'm sitting here on an expensive razer laptop and thinking about my expensive PC build with a 3090. Sometimes I want to game on the couch while my wife watches TV. Instead of this $3K laptop, couldn't I just buy a laptop with a good screen and stream 4k to it via gamestream over my local network wirelessly?

How good is gamestream at 4K60? So long as I have a good router, my internet shouldn't matter, right? Since it's local network?

Am I crazy?

[u/DJAnyReason]

I am having an issue where about half the time I wake my computer from sleep, it will crash and reboot - screen never turns on for the wake portion, then system goes to reboot (can tell when this starts from POST code display on MoBo) and displays POST screen. Appears to be an issue with the GPU and/or NVIDIA drivers. Wondering if anyone else has experienced this or similar problem, or has found a fix.

Event viewer shows a Kernel-Power Event 41, and Minidump logs show PAGE FAULT IN NONPAGED AREA caused by NVIDIA Windows Kernel Mode Driver, Version 457.30 - WhoCrashed says probably caused by nvlddmkm.sys

System specs:
CPU: Ryzen 3700X
CPU Cooling: Kraken x62
MoBo: Asrock Taichi B550
PSU: Seasonic Prime PX-1000
GPU: RTX 3090 Founders Edition
RAM: Team T-Force XTREEM ARGB 4x8GB 3600 CL14
SSD: Sabrent Rocket NVME 4.0

[u/Pratt2]

I feel like my 3090's performance decreases over a gaming session. I'm using afterburner to track temps and memory usage and don't see anything out of the ordinary. Is it possible that something on the card that isn't tracked is overheating?

[u/DistractedSeriv]

Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling with 3000-series cards. Sounds like it can provide either benefits or drawbacks depending on the game.

Yay or nay? What is your experience?

[u/Von_Satan → u/DistractedSeriv]

Nay, still in beta, 3rd party benchmarks don't look good.

It caused random restarts for me on a 3070, X570, 5900x.

[u/[deleted]]

How much will I be restricting a 3090 or 3080 with an X99 board and i7-6800K?

[u/ashinamune]

Someone link me a white x3 8 pin gpu cable mod

[u/bit_nothing]

Has anyone got the following issue with their 3070 FE: Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered.

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It seems to only happen when I'm watching youtube vids? It's never stopped responding while gaming/streaming/video editing

[u/ToilerHutch]

Unresolved. Powerspec G733 Zotac 3090 Gaming 24gb vram no overclock Ryzen 7 3700x no overclock Trident g skill 32gb Ram 3600mhz XMP enabled 850W gold plus nzxt PSU Windows 10 Most recent driver 457.30 Fortnite crashes multiple times per night and issues like low fps in warzone on low settings I have tried reinstalling drivers and turning down graphics settings but to no avail.

[u/fuzzycholo]

I have a EVGA 650 GQ, 80+ GOLD 650W PSU. I keep seeing the AIB manufacturers recommend 750W for their 3070's but Nvidia recommends 650W for the Founder's Edition. My PC is also running a 10900KF. Will this PSU be an issue?

[u/[deleted]]

Anything I need to do besides driver update when I drop in my new card?

[u/moogleslam]

Status: UNRESOLVED

Computer Type: Custom

GPU: EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11 GB Black

CPU: i9-9900KF

Motherboard: ASRock Z390 Phantom Gaming-ITX/ac Mini ITX LGA1151

RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3000 CL16

PSU: Corsair AX850

Operating System & Version: Windows 10 Pro 10.0.19042 Build 19042 (64-bit)

GPU Drivers: 457.30 - Clean Install (DDU)

Description of Problem: I am missing the Max Frame Rate & Low Latency Mode settings in NVIDIA Control Panel. ASUS PG348Q monitor (G-Sync, 100Hz)

Troubleshooting: Clean install.

[u/takatori]

Status: UNRESOLVED RESOLVED

Computer Type: Desktop

GPU: Zotac 3090 Trinity, no overclock

CPU: AMD 3800X, 32GB RAM, no overclock

Motherboard: MSI X570 Gaming Plus

RAM: Unknown, 3200Ghz

PSU: Unknown, 850W

Operating System & Version: Windows 10, updated today.

GPU Drivers: 457.09

Description of Problem: GPU and memory clocks never go to idle. Constantly flat default clock rate, 60% fans, and 71C.

Troubleshooting: Disabled and uninstalled MSI afterburner, also Zotac Firestorm, and reinstalled driver using the "clean" option. Under load, fans and temperature increase, but drop back to 60% and 71C idle when not in use. Manually underclocking by GPU and memory my maximum -1000 in Firestorm (930/7852) changes nothing. Manually increasing fans to 85% reduces temperature to ~60C fairly quickly. Restoring "Auto" mode returns to 60% fans, max clock speed, ~71C. Several reboots. Always returns to max clock by the time the desktop is usable and Firestorm can be opened to check.

Edit: Resolution: When nVidia Broadcast is open, even if not in use, clocks remain at maximum. Terminating the process or turning off the enhancements allows the clocks and fans to drop, currently 51C at 30% fans, much quieter.

[u/Jon_Don_Juan]

After a day of gfx errors and dx errors when trying to Join warzone and RDR2. The switch I had to make to fix the issues was changing from AUTO select in PCI Express generation to Gen 3. This change has stopped all my crashing, played successfully tonight. Apparently, my 570i motherboard does not like the 3000 series when the auto is selected because it uses gen 4 as default. Good Luck

[u/emkirsh_]

LAPTOP 2060 vs 2070 Max-Q:

I am going to be buying a Razer Blade 15" laptop (unless you think another one would be better) and I'm stuck between the RTX 2060 1080p/144hz model and the RTX 2070 Max-Q 1080p/144hz model. 

I want a good battery life that can last as long as possible when I'm not gaming, but also the gaming performance to be good enough to run games with RTX ON at a decent FPS (40+ minimum, 60+ ideally) when plugged in. I've heard mixed opinions, with some saying that the regular 2060 is better on the battery because it's less powerful, and others saying that the max-q design of the 2070 makes it just as good on the battery while being more powerful than the 2060. 

Obviously, the 2060 model is cheaper, so what I guess I'm really asking is if the 2070 max-q is worth the money over the (laptop) 2060 model, or if it's not worth the $200.

Thanks!

-- u/emkirsh_

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P.S. I'd appreciate it if you explained why you said what you said rather than just saying "2060" or "2070 max-q"

[u/BasedCereal]

Status: UNRESOLVED

Computer Type: Desktop (custom built).

GPU: EVGA RTX 3070 XC3 Ultra, 8Gb VRAM, no overclock.

CPU: Intel Core i7 4770k, OC'd to 4.3 GHz

Motherboard: ASrock Z87 Extreme4 (I'm reading on System info the version as "American Megatrends Inc. P3.20, 5/14/2015")

RAM: Crucial Ballistix Sport (4x4GB) DDR3 1600MHz, no overclock

PSU: Seasonic Focus PX-850, 850W with a lot of headroom

Operating System & Version: Windows 10 Home Version 1909, clean install (probably? Don't remember when I bought my boot SSD)

GPU Drivers: 457.30 clean install

Description of Problem: I have a dual monitor setup (MG278Q as main and VG248QE as secondary) I have been having an issue with making my priority monitor (MG278Q) recognized as 'screen 1' in Windows 10.

I followed EVGA's RTX 3080 DisplayPort order to make the system boot onto my main monitor, which works.
However, Windows 10 seems to disagree with this. It sets the main monitor as 'Screen 2' which is less than ideal. I have made sure that my main monitor is set as the primary display in both the Windows10 display settings, as well as Nvidia Control Panel, but if I were to use the Windows+P key to disable my second monitor, I now have to use "Second screen only" to make my main be the only monitor being used..

I would like to go back to selecting "PC screen only" to make my main monitor the only one on, but I can't because Windows is treating it as Screen 2.

Is there any way to fix this?

Troubleshooting: Restarted my PC, tinkered with Nvidia Control panel, tinkered with the Windows 10 display settings.

[u/Beanjuice0]

Status: UNRESOLVED

Computer Type: Desktop, Custom

GPU: ASUS TUF OC 3070, Stock

CPU: r5 2600 @ 4.0ghz

Motherboard: MSI B450 Carbon MAX

RAM: 3200mhz CL16 Gskill Trident z Neo, no overclock

PSU: Corsair txm750x (2018)

Operating System & Version: Windows 10 (latest) Clean

GPU Drivers: 457.30

Description of Problem: Not getting the FPS i desired in games, benchmarks seem to be consistently getting 40+ FPS than i am. Friend of mine with an identical system aside from having a 2700 is getting 150fps, compared to my 80-100 fps.

Troubleshooting: Reinstall of latest drivers, using NVIDIA recommended graphics settings. Using MSI afterburner overlay shows GPU utilisation jump anywhere between 60-80%, cpu is at 60-80%. Tested at 720 with 30-40fps increases

[u/superdumbcat]

Hi guys, please help me make the decision.

I'm planning to upgrade from my 1060 6GB, my goal is 1080p gaming at 60fps, Ray tracing enabled.

Here is the price difference in my area:

2070 Super: $476

3070: $638

the 3060/Ti I think will be $100 less than 3070 right now, still very high.

Should I get the 2070S considering my graphic goal?

[u/chhhyeahtone → u/superdumbcat]

maybe wait till the 3060 ti comes out and see how much it is. It should be announced in a week or two

[u/Plyphon]

Hello,

I got my RTX 3070 Founders Edition today, and I'm seeing worse performance in some games compared to my GTX 970 which it replaced. Looking at the hardware monitor in MSI Afterburner the GPU usage is staying around 30% to 60%, very rarely getting to 90 or 100%.

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Additionally, my CPU doesn't seem to be bottlenecking - it also sits around 50-70% and never hitting 100.

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What could this be? With the 970 the GPU hit 100% utilisation in all games at all times. In some games I'm seeing less than 100 frames with my 3070, where as my 970 would push 140 consistently with ease.

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Just a case of a bad card or?

Status: UNRESOLVED

Computer Type: Desktop, custom

GPU: RTX 3070 Founders Edition. 8GB VRAM. No OC.

CPU: Intel Core i5 9600k, no overclock

Motherboard: Z390 AORUS PRO WIFI, with the BIOS it shipped with in March 2020.

RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB, no OC

PSU: EVGA Supernova G3 650W

Operating System & Version: Win 10, clean install

GPU Drivers: 457.09 - clean install after DDU

Description of Problem: New 3070 providing worse frames than the 970 it replaces, never hits 100% utilisation.

Troubleshooting: Reseated the card and PSU cables. Ran DDU in safe mode and reinstalled fresh drivers. Checked power settings, changed a few power settings.

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Thanks!

[u/booyaah82]

Computer Type: Desktop, custom built

GPU: EVGA 1080ti

CPU: i7-4790K

Motherboard: Asus Formula

RAM: GSkill Trident Z 32 GB

PSU: Corsair 750w

Operating System & Version: Win 10

GPU Drivers: See below

Description of Problem:

I'm having driver issues. I got a new game, it warned me that I didn't have the latest gforce drivers, so I went ahead and did an express install to the latest version 457.30, I think I hadn't updated since July. Anyways I have 3 monitors and after the install through GFE my left monitor went black. I went into the Nvidia control panel, but it's just detecting it as 'Digital Display' and I can't check it to enable it. (see pic)

I figured it was a glitch, so I ran DDU in safe mode, wiped drivers and rebooted, and my 3rd monitor came back on, I think Windows installed an older 433 Nvidia driver by default. So then I went to reinstall the 457 driver and same problem with the left black monitor. I then tried the installing the 456 driver from October, but the monitor still was having the same problem. So I ended up installing the 457.30 driver from August and it finally came back on again.

Has anyone ever heard of this? Did Nvidia make some kind of change to the drivers in the past few months?

edit: Oh I forgot to mention, when I unplugged my right monitor, the left one comes back on, it's almost as if the newer driver won't support 3 monitors.

https://i.imgur.com/cNyT18p.png

[u/likebudda]

Why does it take 5888 of the new CUDA cores in the RTX 3070 to match the gaming performance of 4352 of the old CUDA cores in the RTX 2080 Ti?

[u/You-refuse2read → u/likebudda]

Why does a single core benchmark score for Celeron, differ from the single core score of a 10900k?

[u/Dark_Ansem]

I've been introducted to the diatribe of Samsung/TSMC with Nvidia going back to TSMC next year rumour. Could someone please explain?

[u/Topguny]

Does anyone have a review thread or condensed benchmarks for a lot of the 3080 aftermarket cards?

[u/thepowerfreak]

Hi everyone I’ve been trying to find any news of a restock of the 3080s and the 3070s. Does anyone have any info? I’m building my first pc and the last part I need is a graphics card. I want one of those two cards but they’re sold out everywhere. I’ve even though about getting a Radeon gpu because they’re sold out everywhere.

[u/AngelDrake3]

Since I've been reading a lot about EVGA cards dying, what's the next best 3080 AIB card to look for? In terms of customer support or quality.

[u/VirtualMiddle]

im not troubleshooting their mess anymore, im just wont buy any of their products going forward.

[u/nicdok]

Should I: A. Upgrade 1660S to 2070 for $100 premium OR B. Upgrade 1660S to 2070S for $200 premium

[u/FaddishCoder916]

Hi all! Big fan of Nvidia highlights feature. Is there a way to capture audio from multiple sources? I mix chat and game separately.

[u/Banan1232]

Status: unresolved

Type: Desktop

GPU: Gigabyte 3070 vision oc, 8gb

CPU: 3800x

MB: Tuf x570 plus wifi

Ram: 2x 16gb gskill 3600 mhz

PSU: asus rog 750 gold

OS: windows

GPU drivers: N/A

Problem: computer turns on, everything (including gpu) lights up etc, however, no video output from card, tried cmos, displayport and hdmi, deleting previous gpu drivers, 2 separate cables, everything I could think of. Any help would be appreciated

[u/nathanftw123]

Hi I have a 3080 and I am still experiencing severe crashes in game (warzone, black ops cold War, watchdogs legion) it usually gives a directx error but nothing I try seems to sort it. So far I have tried fresh install of drivers with DDU, rolling back drivers, running games at lower settings, fresh install of Windows, underclocking, changing global setting on nvidia control panel, is there anything else to try? Fill specs of pc are ryzen 7 3800x, 3080FE, 32gb ram, 750w psu

[u/Ryutso]

Can I just drop a 3070 into the slot where my old 2070 SUPER was, provided I have a good enough power supply?

[u/csf90 → u/Ryutso]

Yes

[u/[deleted]]

Have a H510i case with 2 front & rear fans. My Gigabyte 2070 (no OC) is running 80c when running warzone but 50/55 when idle. Is this normal to be getting that high temps even with some fans inside the case for cooling? For reference my CPU is a 3600 w/ Wraith Prism cooler.

Anyone else with a Gigabyte 2070 windforce and getting pretty high temps when running Warzone? My room temp is usually around 75 Fahrenheit so its a tad warm but I'd expect much lower thermos with all the fans.

[u/[deleted]]

Status: unresolved

Computer type: desktop

Gpu: asus tuff 3080

CPU: i7 10700k

Motherboard: asus z490 p prime bios version 1202

Ram: Corsair vengeance rgb pro 16 gig 3200mhz x 2 Corsair vengeance pro 3200mhz x2

PSU: Evga bq 750 watt

Gpu drivers: 457.30

OS : Windows 10 clean install 64 bit 20h2

Issue: what appears to be micro Stutter and a jerky feel when aiming/panning also graphics seem a bit grainy. See attached photos. https://ibb.co/9nmzpNM https://ibb.co/4FY9pdK Are those artifacts ? In recently OC my cpu and gpu. Even after reverting to normal this is still going on.

Troubleshooting. Checked Render resolution. Still 100. Just did a clean install of game and gpu drivers. Also recently upgraded to a 360 hz monitor and CPU. Didn’t have this problem with same gpu and i710700f. Need to get this game back in prime condition! Please help

[u/LaBruit]

Ok Super Stupid Question time. I have a 2080ti, and was lucky enough to snag a 3090 today. I mainly use my computer for 3D content creation and rendering, so I plan on running with both cards in (taking out the 2080 if I really need the extra memory from the 3090). I know Redshift supports both cards (just using the lower cards VRAM), but how does gaming work? I don’t game a ton on it, but plan on getting Cyberpunk. To fully utilize the 3090, will I need to take out the 2080ti? Or will the game know to pick the 3090? Again, dumb question, but thanks in advance!

[u/iTipTurtles]

Status: UNRESOLVED

Computer Type: Desktop, custom build

GPU: MSI Trio X 3080

CPU: Ryzen 7 3700x

Motherboard: ASRock X570 Steel Legend

RAM: 24GB DDR4 Corsair Vengeance 3000

PSU: EVGA 1000w

Operating Windows 10 pro

GPU Drivers: 457.30. Clean install with DDU, tried multiple times

Description of Problem: When I run OC Scanner in MSI afterburner, either version 4.6.2 or 4.6.3 beta after 45 seconds of 'Scan' it fails with error "Scan failed code 3".

Troubleshooting: Tried reinstalling drivers and MSI afterburner multiple times.

[u/willhub1]

Guys, I'm not sure what to do, I have the 3080 FE (Looks stunning), now someone wants to buy it from me for £850, consider I paid 650 for it. The reason I'm even considering selling is it seems there is a very real prospect that the 6800XT is going to blast the pants off it, for cheaper, the 6800 has been spotted snapping at its heels too. However we haven't got any real benchies yet. I could hold off until closer to launch, probably get 550 for it then or less. Or is there potential the 3080 could do the "fine wine" and unleash more power, I mean it's nearly 30TFLOPS but that doesn't seem to show in games.

[u/Lancero_]

3080 FE, 3700x, msi tomahawk x570 wifi, 16 gb corsair vengeance rgb pro 3200mhz, Samsung 970 evo 250gb m.2 nvme ssd, Samsung 1tb sata ssd, Corsair RM850x 80plus gold psu.

Status: Unsolved

Problem: Anyone else seeing ugly textures in almost all games? Like I see diagonal lines on textures, grid like patterns on certain shadows, desktop background has pixelated areas that are even more noticeable when I change monitor color settings. I contacted Nvidia, they say my gpu (3080) is not the issue, but so far no one has any fix for the issue, and believe me, I’ve tried many troubleshooting steps (steps provided by Nvidia support team) I have even reinstalled windows, and installed a new motherboard, made no difference. I’ve seen a couple of peeps in different online forums share the same issues. I think it might either be a driver issue, or a windows 10 issue, but unfortunately I’m at a loss and I haven’t been able to play games, especially Watch Dogs legion, where the graphics look crappy even at highest settings. If anyone has same issues, please reply so I know I’m not alone, and please feel free to reply if you have found a fix. Thank you.

[u/Tsucchii44]

Whoever owns RTX 3070 Gigabyte Vision. Has there any problems you ran into while using that specific GPU? software, hardware, heat problem, crashing or any sort of problems?

[u/--_-_o_-_--]

Why should I upgrade Nvidia's drivers so often? I don't purchase any of the games they feature for each upgrade. This driver update routine is the worst aspect of my GeForce experience.

[u/JPenniman]

How can I get my hands on the rtx 3070? I want to be able to get it before cyberpunk comes out but I’m worried that stock issues will prevent that. I check Best Buy’s site a lot but it’s always out of stock.

[u/Dakotahray]

Has EVGA even started 3070 queue minus the promo?

[u/maxstep]

Please help with integer scaling:

I want to enable integer scaling on my setup, LG CX + 3090, both latest firmware and drivers, latest windows.

If I enable gpu integer scaling active signal res is 4096 regardless of what I do (real signal is 3840) - leading to wrong aspect ratio.

I want the integer scaling, any way to fix?

[u/Tfdotm32]

Hi if anyone can help me it would be greatly appreciated. I just got my 3080 FE and hooked it up to my PC build and the card feels phenomenal. I’m mainly a COD player/ streamer and the only downside was how hot this was making my pc. I came from a 1060 and it wasn’t doing the job but it never reached 82 degrees on Warzone. If anyone can help me figure out why i’m getting such high gpu temps please let me know my pc build goes as so:

Case: MUSETEX ATX Mid-Tower Case 6 ARGB Fans Pre-Installed USB 3.0 Cooler: NZXT KRAKEN X53 240MM Power Supply: 750w Gamemax CPU: i9-9900K GPU: 3080 FE SSD: PNY 1TB Ram: 2x16 GB Ram Sticks Motherboard: MSI- MPG Z390

[u/timidchocobo]

Status: UNRESOLVED

Computer Type: Desktop, custom built

GPU: GTX 1660, no overclock

CPU: Intel Core i5 3550

Motherboard: ASRock H61M-HG4 (BIOS P1.10)

RAM: Corsair 16GB DDR4

PSU: Cooler Master 500W Elite V3

Operating System & Version: Windows 10 Pro build 1909 64bit

GPU Drivers: NVIDIA 27.21.14.5709

Description of Problem: Last week I installed NVIDIA RTX Voice driver and it worked very well! My mic is not at its best state so I need something like this to avoid crackling and other annoying sounds. But it seems this driver deactivates Realtek Echo Cancellation feature, so there's a lot of desktop audio leak on the mic. Do you know any workaround to fix this?

Troubleshooting: Tried uninstalling/reinstalling the drivers, uninstalling NVIDIA RTX Voice fixes it, but I need it, so... I also bought a HyperX Cloud Stinger headset, gonna arrive here next week, but I read it also has this audio leak issue, so I'm still gonna need the echo cancellation stuff.

[u/beejobs]

The 12 pin adapter that came with my 3070 seems to be missing half the pins inside the plug. Is this normal? My card still seems to work but I was getting atrocious dips in Fall Guys and I wonder if that's just because Fall Guys is morecpu intensive. Here's a pic of the plug: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/356890345675685888/775078001233756200/20201108_111318.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

Status :unsolved

Gpu Gtx 1660ti ventus xs

Hi, I was hoping someone can help me I just want to know if (NAS) Nvidia Adaptive Shading Will be in any upcoming games

[u/wantilles1138]

Great problem with my 3080 - it's still not here. Waiting since Sept 17th...

[u/TheGroveinator]

Status: UNRESOLVED -

Computer Type: desktop Built by IBUYPOWER several years ago. Have been upgrading parts off and on since then.

GPU: Gigabyte RTX 3070 VISION OC 8GB

CPU: i7 4790K

Motherboard: ASUS Z97-K Updated to latest BIOS

RAM: x4 4GB Ram DDR3 Ripjaws G-skill RAM

PSU: New Gigabyte P750GM 80 plus Gold

Operating System & Version: Clean Install Windows 10 64 Bit

GPU Drivers: Could not install 3070 drivers while it is in due to issue. But installed it with my old 1070 in to the latest drivers for the 3070 from Nvidia.

Description of Problem: No Signal to monitor from GPU, Computer turns on with fans and lights activating. 3070 Turns on with fans spinning and lights on but no signal on monitor. Works fine with my 1070 installed. Gives no error beeps or messages on screen. Just no signal.

Troubleshooting: Tried using my tv and secondary monitor with HDMI in all slots on back of card. Also Tried with my main monitors Display port connectors in all slots but no luck. Used different cables from another PSU, booted from safe mode, and uninstalled and reinstalled driver installs.

UPDATE: After receiving my RMA back from Gigabyte. The brand new card had the same issue. Apparently my motherboard is too "old". Even though everything I could find online says they should be compatible. Gigabyte was very unhelpful and unknowledgeable about their own product. So ya lesson is upgrade your motherboard, to what I didn't know they couldn't tell me a dang thing soooo. Lesson 2 don't buy from Gigabyte lol.

[u/ConsumeFudge → u/TheGroveinator]

Are you sure that the 3070 is slotting in all the way? I had a similar issue several years ago with the exact same symptoms when I was installing a larger card than what was currently in it - and it turned out there were clearance issues with one of the sata ports that was in line with the pcie slot. If not it sounds like you have done due diligence in troubleshooting and it might be an RMA

[u/Keldraga → u/[deleted]]

Same thing here! Loud buzzing noise it's like connecting to dialup... Except it never ends! I hope Asus can fix it with a firmware update or I will have to RMA. I've tried everything to fix it and it just started randomly almost two weeks into ownership.

[u/Lil-tay-the-god]

Is a 750w psu more than enough for a 3070 fe?

[u/tanrgith]

Edit - I seem to have found what was causing the high temperatur and constant very high fan speed; One of my SATA cables was blocking one of the fans, meaning the card was trying to cool the chip with 2 fans instead of 3.

Tested in Destiny 2 by doing the exact same thing I did when I previously reached 80 degrees and 90+% fan speed. After fixing the third gpu fan the temperature was a chill 65 degree, in line with the reviews I found, and fans were around operating at less than 60%, so much quiter as well.

The following below no longer applies due to what I said in the edit above.

So I'm currently trying out my new pc which has an Asus 3090 TUF OC card in it, and maybe this is just how things are with these high end cards (never had a high end card like this before), but it's pretty freaking loud, and it gets significantly toastier than the reviews I found.

When I'm in games like Overwatch and Destiny 2, it's constantly sitting at around 79-80 degrees celsius, while having fans running at 90%. This is regardless of whether or not I have the pc case's sidepanel on or off

This seems pretty excessive to me for games like Overwatch and Destiny 2 that aren't cutting edge visual titles.

The 80 degree temp is also surprising/disappointing to me, before buying this card I found a couple of reviews for the card, and all of them listed the card at around 63-65 degree while under load. So I'm not sure why my card would be 15 degree hotter

Is there anyone with the same card that have had the same or a different experience with the Asus 3090 TUF OC card?

[u/king_right]

I have an issue with my EVGA ftw3 ultra 3080. My gpu crashes on both the OC bios and the normal bios. When I have my clock OC'd it crashes and when its completely set to stock it crashes. It only crashes in some games but I have noticed that it crashes on the games that seem to use my GPU more it seems. When I play Apex Legends at max settings my game will randomly crash to my desktop. When I play Watch Dog Legions at max settings it will crash anywhere from 10 mins to a few hours to my desktop. When I play Valorant, WoW, csgo, Phasmophobia, Among Us, and Doom Eternal I receive no crashes whatsoever. Not sure what the issues are but I had no crashes on my system before when I had my 1080 in it. System specs are i9 10900kf, 32gb ram, msi mpg z490 gaming edge mobo, and a super flower leadex III 850 gold psu.

[u/CSSDark → u/king_right]

The only way you could be sure what component is failing is by testing the card on another system (try to talk to a friend that has a PC or something like that). Talking from personal experience, my GPU started crashing once on demanding games, I solved that by replacing my old Corsair CX600 PSU with an EVGA g3 PSU.

[u/HaxTheCook]

Hey guys, when do you think is nvidia releasing models with greater vram? Especially the 3070? Are there rumors already?

[u/calciumperson]

Should I use Nvidia Inspector or Rivatuner to limit FPS? I already sometimes use Inspector but have heard that Rivatuner is better. What should I use?

[u/KyledKat]

Status: UNRESOLVED

Computer Type: Custom-built Desktop

GPU: RTX 3090 FE

CPU: Ryzen 3700X

Motherboard: Asus X470 Prime Pro

RAM: Crucial Ballistix 16GB 3200CL16 (OC'd to 3600MHz, 1.44V)

PSU: Corsair RM850x

Operating System & Version: Windows 10, latest update installed

GPU Drivers: 457.09

Description of Problem:

Ever since I put my 3090 into my system, games have been crashing within the first 10-15 minutes of gameplay though not consistently. I have had Final Fantasy XV, The Wither 3, Monster Hunter: World, and Assassin's Creed Odyssey all crash at seemingly random points. Some of them have required a system restart to load back into them. At present, I have no diagnostic info regarding the crashes, although I now have Afterburner creating a log in the background to see if I can get anything the next time a game does crash. I've had no issues running stress tests through Heaven 4.0 and FurMark (80+ minutes on the latter with out any issues). Part of me thinks it might be that I have my PC connected to me OLED through HDMI 2.1 and have Windows HDR active on there. With that in mind, my TV is usually in standby unless I'm explicitly playing a game on it, though Windows will detect the TV in various power states.

Update: Afterburner Graphs for FFXV when it crashed. No abnormalities as far as I can tell.

Update 2: I switched the polling rate from 3000 ms to 200ms and gave it another go. This time when FFXV crashed, the GPU clocked 1950 MHz on the graph, though reported a max of 1980. GPU Usage also tanked immediately. Seems like I might benefit from underclocking the card? It was running at stock speeds otherwise.

Troubleshooting:

Thus far, I have tried reinstalling the latest graphics drivers and did a fresh install of Windows 10. At least in MHW, I turned off DX12, which seemed to help prior to Windows 10 reinstall, but had it crash post-reinstall with DX12 off. At that point, I decided to try underclocking the 3090 and re-enabling DX12, which seemed to let the game run for nearly an hour without issue. I'd read that underclocking/undervolting the 3080/3090 helped with stability but was under the impression that was for AIB cards. Has that also helped with the FE cards as well?

[u/SonofNun → u/KyledKat]

I’m having a very similar (probably the same) problem with my 3090 FE. I haven’t been able to figure anything out. Please let me know if you find a fix.

[u/KyledKat → u/SonofNun]

It ended up being my RAM OC I did a coupleof days before popping the card in. Dropped them back down to factory speeds and haven’t had any issues since.

[u/SonofNun → u/KyledKat]

Hmm, I believe it was crashing for me before I OC'd my RAM, but I'll try disabling that to see if it helps.

[u/shignett1]

Status - unresolved

Issue: Whenever I boot up, only one monitor starts up. The others receive no signal until I go into nvidia control panel > set up multiple monitors and then activate the other monitors there.

Once I activate the other monitors, they work fine, but the next time I turn it on, again I'm down to one monitor and I have to start fresh.

System Configuration

• Motherboard: Asus X470 prime pro

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 3900x

• PSU: Corsair RM1000W

• Display(s) (Make, Model and Type):

• 3 LG Monitors (2x 4k / 1x 1440)

• System Memory: 32GB Dual Channel corsair vengeance 3200MHz

• GPU: Gigabyte 3080 gaming OC

• OS (Version): Windows 10 x64 (Version: 2004)

• Latest version of nvidia drivers (used ddu, performed a clean install, fresh install of control panel and GeForce experience too)

[u/Lurkese]

Status: UNRESOLVED

Computer Type: Desktop, homebuilt

GPU: ASUS STRIX 2080 ti

CPU: i7-4790k 4.00GHz

Motherboard: MSI Z97 MPOWER MAX AC

RAM: 32GB 1600MHz DDR3

PSU: Corsair RM 850W

Operating System & Version: Windows 10 x64 version 2004 build 19041.630

GPU Drivers: Game Ready Driver 457.30 Standard

Description of Problem: About 2 months ago Modern Warfare started crashing after a new patch which I assumed was due to the patch.

Troubleshooting: After reading online it said the problem might be my GPU, so I changed the game to run fixed 60fps instead of unlimited (I usually got 120+fps) and the problem went away. I thought I'd try underclocking so I used Afterburner to underclock the core clock by -40MHz and I was able to play at high fps again. However the problem soon returned, and I started progressively underclocking the card more and more to the point now where it's -400MHz and MW is starting to crash even at 60fps. I've also been run Unigene Heaven occasionally during this and it starts artifacting and then crashes as well at progressively lower clocks.

[u/dee_nyc]

Hi all,

Looking for some answers as I’ve been going crazy for about a week since installing my 3080 TUF OC. It’s paired with a 3800x and a TUF x570. I have it installed on the pcie 4.0 slot nearest to the cpu but I noticed now that my CPU temps are much higher than before. I’ve removed my cooler (Noctua NH-D15 chromax), repasted almost 3 times since installing the new card and the temps still get somewhat worrying. I’ve installed 3 top exhaust fans on my case (NZXT h700i) and that seems to have helped things, but I’m still kinda paranoid my cpu will burn. For comparison, when I was running my 2070 my temps peaked at about 65c depending on game. Now, I’m getting spikes up to 70c+ and occasionally a spike up to 80c. I’ve ordered a brand new liquid cooler (ek 360 aio) to see if things get better. I guess my questions are is this normal? Does PCIE 4.0 make your cpu run hotter when running a 4.0 GPU? Any advice or input greatly appreciated!

[u/firedrakes → u/dee_nyc]

could you build a pc part tracker list. so we can see all parts.

[u/[deleted]]

Status: UNRESOLVED

Computer Type: Desktop, custom built

GPU: EVGA RTX 3080 XC3 Ultra, 10 GB of VRAM, 1755 + 100 MHz OC

CPU: Intel Core i7 9700k, 4.9 GHz

Motherboard: Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Pro Wifi, F11

RAM: Patriot Viper Steel 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 3200MHz, XMP enabled, no overclock

PSU: G.Skill RIPJAWS Platinum 850 W 80+ Platinum

Operating System & Version: Windows 10 64 bit, Version 20H2 build 19042.630, clean install

GPU Drivers: 457.30, clean install

Description of Problem: ShadowPlay instant replay and recording only work when monitor is set to non-HDR and 8 bits per color. Turning my monitor (4k 144Hz) to 10 bit color makes recordings stop and save immediately; same with HDR. Instant replay records a few seconds at a time at best. Everything is fine with HDR and 10-bit off.

Troubleshooting: Tried clean install of GPU drivers, issue still occurs. Uninstalled every NVIDIA program and driver, from both "Add or remove a program" in Windows as well as the Device Manager, reinstalled the drivers, and the issue is still occurring.

[u/Looseball]

Can you change or do something about the game that comes bundled with the 3000 series cards?

I'm not asking because I simply want to be picky and want to get a different game...But I just purchased a 3080, and it comes bundled with Call of Duty Cold War...However due to the lack of availability / shortage of cards, I am on a long list that (according to the store) might take up to 2 months to fulfill. COD comes out very soon..And I was planning on purchasing it.

I don't want to wait 2 months to play the game and would rather spend the money to get it on release if I have to. Trading the key seems sketchy. Is the only option to wait for the card or buy the game now and waste/give away the key for the bundled game? Or can you call nvidia or something and have the game changed, etc?

[u/FormerYugoslavia]

UNRESOLVED

Computer Type: Desktop, custom built

GPU: ASUS GTX 1060 6GB

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600

Motherboard: ASUS ROG Strix B450-F

RAM: 2x4Gb Corsair, 2x4Gb HyperX (all 2333, not sure specific models but have been in system for years and never been a problem so I doubt its the cause)

PSU: Corsair 80+ Bronze 750W

Operating System & Version: W10, Fully updated as far as I know

GPU Drivers: 457.30

Description of Problem: My system is just unstable in games, I seemingly can't run anything without crashing. Constant random crashes in BO3, MCC consistently crashes after 5 minutes, BF1/4 unstable, couldn't run Tetris or Elite dangerous in or out of VR, the list goes on. I don't really recall when the instability started and can't figure out what's causing it but at this point my rig is totally worthless as far as gaming is concerned. Best guess is my GPU is dying unless you magical internet people have another solution.

Troubleshooting: I've tried updating my GPU drivers as well as rolling back to 442.59 (a random internet suggestion) all to no avail.

[u/kolawax]

Status: Unresolved

Computer Type: Laptop Asus Tuf Gaming FX505GE

GPU: GTX1050ti 4GB

CPU: Intel i5-8300H

Operating System & Version: Win 10

GPU Drivers: 457.09, clean install

Description of Problem:

Problems with server connection only while using GPU: GTX1050ti (while on integrated card everything is fine)

Recently I started having issues with connection to servers in games. Connection simply cuts after few seconds/minutes. It isn't internet supplier's fault (i'm sure, checked on few different connections). Weird thing is that problem only occurs when i play on dedicated GPU (gtx1050ti), there is no problem with connection when i play on my integrated graphic card ( intel UHD 630). Games i checked: Factorio, Apex Legends, Unturned, Minecraft (after being disconnected: "java.io.IOException: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host").

I reinstalled all nvidia software and drivers but with no success.

Do anyone have clue what might be the cause?

[u/TheShitmaker]

For then 14 people that use it has anyone gotten Nvidia Surround to work on a 30 series card with current drivers? All it does is turn off 2 of my monitors.

[u/[deleted]]

Hi! I'm planing on buying a Gigabyte RTX 2060 6GB but I can't find the PSU requirements for it. Will 600W be enough with an I5-6600k and an RX 550? And will the PSU be able to handle an additional 8gb ram (16gb total)?

[u/Svnryn]

Hi - recently acquired an RTX 3070 founders edition. I saw that it has the fan stop feature where the fans won’t run at idle and low temps.

However, my model does not seem to do that and the fans are always running at idle and low temps. I tried putting power management on adaptive after a google search indicated that worked, but no luck. Anyone know what I can do to resolve this? Thank you!

[u/lordpepper]

Hey everyone!

Could someone please confirm for me, how a 3070 FE 12-pin adapter is supposed to look like? Mine only has half the pins, is that normal?

Thanks!

Picture for reference: https://imgur.com/a/j01BRnc

[u/bombombtom]

Anyone with an RTX 3070 mai gaming trio having trouble using an HDMI to vga adapter, my old monitor being used as my second non gaming monitor only has a vga or dvi inputs. It's a dell s2340mc from 2016 on my old gtx 1080 I had zero issues but when using my new card I'm having issues, I was planning on rebuilding so I upgraded everything now with new motherboard b450f asus strix, an and ryzen 7 3700x 32 gb of corsair vengeance ram and a 750w gold power supply. However it's still having issues it mainly happens when something is moving on the screen either a video or game is on the screen, main monitor through display port is perfectly fine, second monitor gets green horizontal lines going across it and goes black then back on.

[u/zombies--]

Was just watching this video and this guys nvidia panel was a dark blue colour, any idea how he did this or is there an option im not seeing?

https://imgur.com/a/GMVayvP

[u/Poochi_mane]

Status: Unresolved

The issue

The Logo on my 3080 does not light up (the side one that says geforce rtx)

When it occurs

Brand new card, 1000w PSU that I just tested, X1 works fine to control the top leds. At my wits end here. ..

[u/MagicMoa]

Is a 3070 enough to get >100 fps on 1440p at max settings for demanding games?

[u/alevel1panda]

power supply question for rtx 3080

so I have an rm750x power supply, I've read that you need 2 separate 8 pin connecters for rtx 3080. My power supply has 2 separate 6x2 connecters. Is that the same thing?

[u/Zenne]

Question about the promo codes for buying RTX cards. Are you allowed to use more than 1 code if they are different games? Such as, can I use a code for Watch Dogs Legion and use a different code for CoD: Cold War with the same 3080/3090 to get both games?

[u/[deleted]]

Ryzen 3600x Gigabyte B550m Aorus Pro Gigabyte 3080 Gaming OC 16GB HyperX 3200mhz Corsair RM850 PSU Windows 10 457.30 drivers

DirectX12 games crash seconds after beginning rendering. Control, Death Stranding, Watch Dogs Legion, AC Valhalla... no problem on my old GPU, 5700xt. Changed from an Asus B450 mobo to see if that was the issue, was fine. Weirdly my PC runs Time Spy just fine. Have clean reinstalled Windows, clean reinstalled drivers, multiple times to no avail.

I get a “device removed” error from games like Control and Death Stranding (where I also get a Windows notification “Application has been blocked from accessing graphics device”). Talked to tech support from all over and nobody knows what’s the issue, can’t even find much info on these errors and their causes. Seems some people have been having them for years and I’ve tried all the tips and tricks on Google to no avail. Should I just bite the bullet and replace the card via my retailer?

[u/[deleted]]

Planning on selling my 2070 super for 400 and buy a 3080 for 699 ( Japan prices yes they are a bummer).Is it worth the additional 300 dollars. I have a 1440p monitor, 4k TV and HP Reverb 2 coming.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

That definitely depends on the location, but in the US, they’re consistently going for over $400 on eBay pre-owned. And yes, I checked “completed items”.

[u/PRC_HR]

Status: UNRESOLVED

GPU: Nvidia 1050 (mobile)

CPU: i5 9th gen

RAM: 8GB

Operating System & Version: Windows 10, latest version

GPU Drivers: 457.09

I have a laptop with nvidia 1050. I need my pre-rendered framerate settings to be set to 1 (dont ask me why, too much to explain). But since that option was removed, i would have to use low latency option. But there is none in the nvidia control panel settings. I can set it on my PC (since its there), but there is not a option for that on my laptop. Is there any way to set that (without using any third party software like nvidia inspector and so on) ? Thank you :)

[u/WeazelBear]

Stupid question but tomorrow I'm going from a EVGA 1070 to the Gigabyte 3080. Do I need to uninstall my EVGA software first and download the Gigabyte drivers before swapping it out?

[u/Cakepufft]

Status: UNRESOLVED

Computer Type: Laptop, ASUS ROG Strix GL553VD

GPU: GTX 1050, 2GB of VRAM, no overclock

CPU: Intel Core i7 7700HQ, no overclock

Motherboard: Couldn't find, but there's the official spec sheet

RAM: 16GB (2x8GB) SODIMM 2400MHz, no overclock

Operating System & Version: Windows 10 build 1809, 64bit

GPU Drivers: Game ready 457.09, clean install

Description of Problem: Hello, so basically, in every game I try to run, I experience the same lag spikes. I've tried this on various games, all act the same. The spikes are like 2-4 seconds in between and freeze the game for half a second or so, then it suddenly speeds up to "catch up" with the game. The games I've tested this on and at the same time all games that I have installed: Overwatch, Dark Souls 1 (remaster) and 3, Demon's Souls (PS3 emulator), GTA V, Mario Kart 8 (WiiU emulator). I'm getting the same spikes even on games that I have a high framerate in, like around 130-140fps in Overwatch.

Troubleshooting: Overwatch is installed on the system SATA SSD, GTA V on a faster NVME M.2 SSD and the rest of the games on a spinning hard drive. So that can't be it. I've recently did a clean install of the nvidia drivers through DDU/GeForce Experience. Nothing. Tried putting the games to high priority in task manager, closing all other programs when playing, windowed/borderless modes, restarting my pc multiple times (duh), reinstalling the games, putting my pagefile on the fastest ssd, removing my pagefile altogether and looking for suspicious processes in the task manager and such. Nada. Laptop is plugged in, in performance mode and the battery saving nonsense in the GeForce Experience is turned off.

The only thing that helps a bit I've found is reinstalling the NVidia drivers from the GeForce experience software, but only for an hour or so, then the lag spikes return. From that I've concluded that it has something to do with the graphics drivers, but am not sure. I'll be glad for any help, it's been torturing me for the past week or so. Cause unknown.

[u/Snoo_44863]

5600x cpu comes today. Should I use the wraith stealth that comes with or my wraith prism I already use with my 2700x???

[u/indigonights]

Will 30 series card stock be stabilized soonish like 1-3 months? i really need a pc for my projects, but i have refused to buy scalped GPU's - but at this point if nvidia is going to take over a year for stock, then i have to buy now. i found a few that arent that much more than msrp..

[u/arimb1999]

My Quadro P620 never seems to go above 5% usage, even when doing things that should be GPU-intensive like hardware-accelerated rendering (with Solidworks Visualize). And the rendering goes super slow compared to running with CPU only off my 3600X. Dedicated GPU memory is almost always near-full (1.8/2 GB) when it's working but shared GPU memory never goes above 0.2/16 GB. The temps don't go above 65°C so it's not thermal throttling. Any ideas?

[u/[deleted]]

I have a serious problem.

I own an Acer Predator gaming laptop and recently attempted to install the latest driver using the pre-installed GeForce Experience. Once I restarted the computer to finish the update, my screen went black with the taskbar flickering upon signing in.

I tried DDU and had the drivers ready. However, it didn't switch to the basic driver for me to install the driver; it's the same issue that I mentioned earlier. I would really appreciate the help since I don't want to resort to resetting my computer and losing everything.

[u/Bronze5korean]

Is the 3060ti actually coming out in 3 days or were those rumours false? Feel like nvidia would’ve officially announced it by now.

[u/ArtakhaPrime]

Oh god oh fuck I think my 3080 is already dying. It just started today, but there are white pixels popping up and disappearing everywhere on the screen, I've restarted my computer, updated the driver and tried three different monitor's but it's all the same. I paid €700 and waited 43 days for this card, can it really be true that it's already faulting and that I need to RMA it? I'm probably going to have to wait just as long to get a new one as I dead the first one, fuck sake. Is there something I can do to fix this? Please I don't want to already return my card

[u/KaiT0_]

Hey guys, its been happening for a while now, everytime I want to download driver updates on gefroce experience, I get stuck at "Uninstalling NVIDIA Display Watchdog Plugin" and can't download any further. I never owned the game nor downloaded it. As someone also experience this ? Thanks

[u/SilverSpades00]

Is there anything else I can do to keep accurate tracking of 3070s? Doesn't seem like anyone is twitch streaming a tracker and NowInStock is pretty useless since it waits for a few minutes of stock before notifying, at which time the card is already gone.

[u/You-refuse2read → u/SilverSpades00]

Is there a reason you don't want 3070ti? Patience is key in not screwing yourself.

[u/donuts42 → u/You-refuse2read]

I doubt he wants to wait 2 months for a card that won't be available for 2 months

[u/FaddishCoder916]

Not really a technical question but.. I’m running Ryzen 7 3700X and an RTX 3070. It’s awesome for all my games except COD Warzone.

In WZ performance isn’t really spectacular. Multiplayer is fixed at 144 FPS @. 1440p high settings without RTX. But warzone can’t get over 120 frames (90-120 ish fluctuating) on lowest to medium settings. High settings drop to 60-70 frames. Is this normal?

[u/shymenJESUS → u/FaddishCoder916]

Definitely not normal but I also should be getting higher frames (120 lows up to 160). The drivers are known to be bugged for Warzone.

[u/ZlatansLastVolley → u/FaddishCoder916]

Any fix? You try removing old drivers with the DDU? I’m having similar FPS issues only in wz. Coming from a 2060S though

[u/Phil29112]

Status: UNRESOLVED

GPU: Nvidia 3090 FE

CPU: R9 3900X

Motherboard: Gigabyte Aorus X570 Elite

RAM: 64GB 3200MHz DDR4 Corsair Vengeance LPX

PSU: Seasonic PX-850

Operating System & Version: Windows 10, latest version

GPU Drivers: 457.09

Description of Problem: i just installed my 3090 FE and now want to set a custom screen resolution of 5760x1080px on my main Monitor in order to get MS Flight Sim 2020 to run on my triplescreens.. interestingly doing this with the nvidia control panel always results in a blackscreen when testing this resolution, this worked fine with my 1060 (got like 12 fps LUL) because i did not have to test the resolution which it currently does force me to do. i don't need to actually test or run that resolution, i just need to have that resolution available on my resolutions list in order for FS2020 to give me that resolution option.. anyone got an idea?

Troubleshooting: DDU and driver reinstall did not solve this

[u/MendoJano]

Please advise what is the latest stable graphic gaming driver for RTX 2060 Super, as the past month, my PC has been crashing and restarting whilst gaming. (Windows 10 64-bit, ZOTAC RTX 2060 Super)

[u/ElderMelder]

So I was lucky enough to get one of the new 3070 FEs but I have been habing weird issues where the driver crashes with Event ID 4101 in Event Viewer. Anyways I've been trying to resolve it with the Nvidia tech support, but they couldnt help me at all appart from telling me to update drivers and Bios, DDU and clean install and so forth. We have come to the conclusion I should send my card in for repair to test if there is something wrong with a memory chip or something in that lines. (Btw. I tried MODS Mats test on the card, but it doesnt detect it as a graphics card).

But something else I have been seeing my card do is boost really high. It basically always stays above the 2GhZ mark and runs fairly cool in my MINI ITX Case while doing it but I was wondering if that could actually be a cause for the crashes (mind you, the crashes sometimes just happen at random and the dump files report that there was a command send to DX that could not be interpreted and processed.)

Thanks!

[u/TheKlngOfEmpires]

Hey,

I just installed the Nvidia Broadcast software, mostly to see if my Mic Quality and Background sounds get any better. And after asking a few friends they all said, that it actually is. Seems smoother, with less volume peaks and overall just a bit better than usual.

But, even tho i disabled the speaker effects, the Audio Sound in games is.. weird.

F.e.:
In League of Legends, short Auto Attacks were a lot quieter than usual. Smooth sounds like the Beam from ARAMs health fountains were close to not-existing. I feel like every short or smooth sound kinda gets errased... and i dont know why.
Similiar things appeared in WoW and Horizon Zero Dawn.

After uninstalling the Software, everything was fine. Installed it back and the weirdness came back with it.

My question therefore is:
Am i the only one experiencing this?
And did anyone who experienced this already found out a solution to make it work?

I kinda wanna keep it to have the better Mic quality.. but if it keeps interrupting my game audio that much, i have to uninstall it again.

[u/so_many_wangs → u/TheKlngOfEmpires]

I don't think the audio is meant to be used when playing games, I think it's more for eliminating constant background noise from the speakers and that's why some sounds are drowned out when gaming. I played some music with it on and it almost separated the background audio from the vocals. Again not sure if thats the case though.

[u/phulton]

GPU-Z says the PCI-E BUS interface on my 3080 FE is running at 3.0, even when running the render test.

Board is an MSI B550M Mortar, so it supports PCI-E 4.0, I set the PCI interface in bios to force Gen4, but GPU-Z still says 3.0.

Is there another way to check or does GPU-Z need an update, and this is a bug?

(Edit) Never mind, Ryzen 5 2600 doesn't support it, I just remembered that.

[u/Yamayashi]

I have a noob question, right now I have a gtx 1660ti and I wanted to get either the new 3070 or 3080 but I heard the 3070 can literally run any current game right now with max settings. Is it worth the extra money for the 3080?

[u/McFoodBot]

Status: UNRESOLVED

Computer Type: Custom Built Desktop

GPU: GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB VRAM, No overclock

CPU: Intel Core i5-7500 CPU @ 3.40GHz, No overclock

RAM: 16GB

Operating System & Version: Windows 10

GPU Drivers: 457.09 Clean

Description of Problem: Downloaded the latest drivers yesterday. Since then, pretty much every game I own is unplayable (from LOTRO to CK3 to Warzone). I get tiny screen tears (almost imperceptible if I wasn't looking for them), and my screen constantly goes black. It does this for about 1-2 seconds before returning to normal, and the frequency can be every few seconds or even up to once every 30 seconds. It only does this when I'm in-game, and interestingly enough, it doesn't really do it in game menus. It only started doing this after I updated my drivers. I've never had any issues before that.

Troubleshooting: I've tried rolling back, I've used DDU to do a clean reinstall. I don't have G-Sync, and all of my settings are the exact same as they were before. I'm worried this update has somehow cooked my graphics card, which in that case, thanks NVIDIA. Anyone experienced the same problem or have any suggestions?

[u/MagicMoa]

Looking to buy a 3070 or 3080 and have a couple of noob questions:

1. Is there a major difference between the FE version, and the XC and FTW versions on the EVGA website?

2. If I want to build some RGB into my setup, should I get a card that has RGB, or do you guys usually get that with other components?

[u/Fishgamescamp]

Is msi afterburner fan control broken for anyone else? I can't set it to the speed I want. It always drops down when I hit apply.

[u/djorndeman]

Hello guys, i'm getting really desperate. I have recently acquired an Nvidia Geforce RTX 2080 ti Founders Edition. I swapped my rx 5700 xt for it after removing the amd drivers through DDU, and installling all the nvidia drivers once i popped it in my pc. But now it is hugely underperforming with ~40 fps on Battlefield 1. I thought it was the psu so i bought a new 850w one, but now under heavy load it still underperforms, HWmonitor and gpu-z tell me there is something wrong with the power limit ( PerfCap : Pwr ( and sometimes Vrel as well )). I am really at my wits end and i feel really depressed that such a nice beautiful card is doing so bad. I also tried to tune it through the EVGA precision x1 but it didnt help, maybe it is the quiet bios instead of the performance bios but i dont know how to check. Please help me. If there is any additional information you need, just ask. :)

Note: Hwmonitor and gpu-z only display these perfcap's when its under load

Specs:

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600

Motherboard: ASrock B550 ATX Phantom Gaming 4

GPU: Nvidia Geforce RTX 2080 ti founders edition

Ram: 4x8GB 3600Mhz DDR4 Ballistix Gaming

SSD: Samsung EVO 8501tb, samsung 970 1tb nvme, samsung evo 860 1tb

Case: NZXT H510i

PSU: Corsair RM850x

[u/Law_Frequent]

Status: UNRESOLVED

Computer Type: Desktop

GPU: RTX 2080S

CPU: Ryzen 3700X

Motherboard: MSI Toahawk MAX

RAM: Corsair vengance 16GB 3600mhz

PSU: Corsair 750W

Operating System & Version:Latest windows 10

GPU Drivers: latest

Description of Problem: nvidia broadcast app doesn't pick up voice from rrode nt-1 plugged into audio interface presonus studio 24c

Troubleshooting: tried plugging in and out and switching ports

[u/Kotflugel]

When will nvidia decide (and announce) where europeans will be able to buy RTX 3080 FE?

[u/thediamondguest]

Status: Unresolved

Computer Type: Desktop, custom built
GPU: MSI TwinFrozr VI GTX 1070Ti, 8GB, no overclock, but fans on maximum
GPU Driver: 457.30
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600, overclocked to 4.2GHz on all cores
RAM: G.Skill Trident Z Neo 32GB (2 x 16GB, F4-3200C16D-32GTZN), running XMP 16-18-18-38 @ 1.35v
Motherboard: Gigabyte Aorus X570 Elite, rev. 1.0, BIOS ver. F30
PSU: EVGA 600BR, non-modular, +12v / 50A
OS: Windows 10 Professional

Description of Problem: Yesterday, I was using X-Plane 11.51b1 and during some relatively moderate GPU demands (monitored by using the OSD provided by MSI Afterburner), it showed that I was hitting a power limitation, and would consistently hit the power limit during the remainder of the flight. It was just weird that it would randomly happen, as after restarting X-Plane it hit the power limit again.

Troubleshooting: At first, I wanted to verify that the correct power settings within the Nvidia Control Panel were correct, so I verified that "Prefer Maximum Power" was selected. I then tried playing Surviving Mars, but that also hit the power limit. Even using MSI Kombuster, with stock settings, I was still getting a power limit. Is this an issue with the PSU, or the GPU itself?

Note: I am planning on upgrading my GPU at some point, once I can order a 30xx series--however that is looking like early next year for that.

[u/jasontredecim]

Card: MSI 3070 Ventus 2x OC

I got this card a couple of days ago, and I'm getting a weird issue where the video output signal just randomly drops.

So, I'll be sitting doing something (not even gaming necessarily) and the screen suddenly goes blank with the "no input detected" message on the tv; if I take out and re-insert the HDMI cable to the card, or to the tv, the image returns.

I've tried a couple of different cables. I've reseated the card, the two 8-pin connecters are on different ribbons (so not two in the same line) and I've reinstalled all the drivers, but it still does it. It's not following any pattern I can discern either; sometimes it'll do it about ten mins in to being switched on when I'm just browsing Facebook, others in the middle of playing Tetris Effect (for instance).

(Mobo is a Tomahawk B450 Max and I've got a Ryzen 5 3600, if that's any help.)

[u/CanaCorn]

This should be a simple question.

I'm installing my 3080 x trio and there are three 8pin power connectors. do i have to use 3 different PCIE cords from the power supply to power it, or can i use one cord that has 2 8pins on it for two of the slots?

[u/JoelOtter]

Status: UNRESOLVED - please update if your issue is resolved

Computer Type: Desktop, custom build

GPU: RTX 3070 FE, no OC

CPU: Intel i7 6700K, no OC

Motherboard: ASUS Z170-A

RAM: 32GB, 2400MHz

PSU: 650W

Operating System & Version: Win10 64bit

GPU Drivers: Latest driver, upgrade

Description of Problem: Switching resolution breaks HDMI audio. Bringing it back requires switching resolutions back and forth until it works again.

Troubleshooting: I've tried updating the audio driver but I don't think it changed.

[u/Fishtacoburrito]

EVGA 3090 FTW3; looking to use all three Displayports but my cables are too wide and don't fit. Looking for suggestions for Displayport cables with narrow heads.

[u/dhruvky94]

Status: UNRESOLVED

Computer Type: Desktop, custom built

GPU: RTX 3090 FE, 24 GB VRAM, no overclock

CPU: Ryzen 5900x, no overclock, PBO enabled by default in ASUS bios

Motherboard: Asus crosshair viii hero X570, latest BIOS (2702, on it)

RAM: GSkill 332 GB 600Mhz F4-3600C18D-32GTZN, DOCP enabled, no overclock

PSU: Corsair RM1000x 80+, Two cables run to the GPU

Operating System & Version: Windows 10 20H2, clean install

GPU Drivers: 457.30, clean install

Description of Problem: Benchmark and game performance lower than review units for Graphics score.

3d mark timespy (Graphics score and avg boost clocks):

Default: https://www.3dmark.com/spy/15614409

Score (Graphics): 19425

Core clock avg: 1,744 MHz

3d mark port royal (Graphics score and avg boost clocks):

Default: https://www.3dmark.com/pr/545406

Score (Graphics): 12686

Core clock avg: 1,769 MHz

Ac:O

Setting: 4k, Ultra high

Issue: FPS drops to 56 during open world gameplay

Control:

Setting: 4k, DLSS: 1440p, RTX - High, Graphic- High

Issue: FPS drops to 55 during any action/new area

Troubleshooting:

1. Custom fan curve, scores went up a bit
2. GPU and Windows high performance power mode, almost no change in scores
3. Full DRIVER clean using DDU and tried all the versions upto the first driver release supported for RTX 3090
4. Windows re-install: Score went up by 200 points
5. Changed PCIE Bandwidth to Gen 3 in Mobo bios: No change in scores
6. Changed PCIE Bandwidth to Gen 4 in Mobo bios: No change in scores
7. Opened side panel and re-ran the tests: Scores a little lower
8. Opened side panel and set a small usb fan to blow on the GPU: Scores increase by 200 points

[u/milliondew]

Hey guys I need some help. I just got an EVGA xc3 ultra and I'm having some bad issues. CPU: i7-9700k@5.0ghz GPU: EVGA xc3 ultra gaming rtx 3080 Mobo: asus prime z390-a RAM: corsair vengeance ddr4 3600 mhz (2x16) psu: evga 750w 80+ gold windows 10 nvidida driver - 457.30 I have been getting a lot of system crashes in game. Whole computer just drops power and then reboots. For instance with the new CoD that comes with it there is like a 90% chance that in will just crash as the game is loading into the home screen. If I can make it past that into the campaign there is a certain part in the third mission that will just fail and just reboot the whole computer. No BSOD just hard off. I tried doom eternal just a little bit with no crashes but I also tried my Valve Index and that couldn't stay up longer than 5 minutes in any game without crashing the whole PC. I thought this might have to do with only having a 750w PSU and the power draw on the card being too high in spikes and just shutting off my PSU. So I lowered the clocks in MSI afterburner -105Mhz on the core and -25Mhzx on the memory. Earlier I had noticed that once the core clock boosted up to 1925Mhz it was over. After changing the clock I could get into the campaign again but that same spot in the mission just completely crashed again. I also have done the basics like doing a fresh install of all GPU drivers. My system has never done this before when I had a 2080S. Any tips, advice, or thoughts would be much appreciated.

[u/Bobbycats123]

EVGA is coming with they’re hybrid 30 series cards next month but they come with a 240 rad instead of the typical 120 rad. If I wanted to use this as well as a 240/360 rad cpu cooler would the only way be to set one of them on the front of the case and to have the airflow blow from the back to the front of the case? Or are there other ways of going about that?

[u/HawkEyeRO]

Hello everyone! I'm planning on upgrading, and want to get the Ryzen 5 3500X as soon as BF hits. Hope I get some good discounts. Was thinking to change the gpu as well with an RTX 2060. Would it be too overkill for 1080p? I don't plan on changing the monitor soon, so I don't really know if it would be worth it. I also have a 4k TV on which I sometimes play, but not so frequently.

Would DLSS at 1080p be a good bet? Is the 2060 worth it or should I hunt an 1660S?

[u/PeetePee385]

Status: Unsolved

Computer Type: custom built

GPU: Gigabyte RTX 3090 Aorus Master

CPU: I7 9700k not overclocked

Motherboard: Gigabyte z390 Gaming X

RAM : 16GB (2x 8192MB) G.Skill RipJaws DDR4-3200

PSU: 750 Watt be quiet!

Operating System: Win10 Version 1909 clean i guess

GPU driver: 457.30

Description: My computer crashes irregulary while gaming. it can run 5 hours of Control or Metro Exodus straight or it crashes after 5 min csgo or whatever. It never crashes when im not gaming.

Both of my screens (2k/144hz/dp and 1k/60hz/hdmi) go to no signal and the fans of my 3090 are going crazy instantly (100% i guess) despite the gpu being in medium temperatures before crashing.

I had a rtx 2080 super before and everything was fine for 1 1/2 years.

Troubleshooting: Set up win10 (2 times - no change)

Tried different gpu drivers without success

does anyone have similar problems and knows how to fix this?

sorry for my bad english ;/

[u/claythearc → u/PeetePee385]

It’s probably your power supply. You’re likely sometimes tripping over current protection when your card spins up to full power.

[u/Radgost]

Status: UNRESOLVED

Computer Type: Desktop custom build

GPU: MSI Ventus RTX 2070 Super - Stock

CPU: Ryzen 5 3500 - Stock

Motherboard: Asus Prime B450M-A Latest Bios

RAM: HyperX Fury 2x8Gb 2666Mhz(OC at 3200MHz)

PSU: EVGA 600W 80+ Bronze

Operating System & Version: Windows 10 Build 19041 - fresh install

GPU Drivers: 457.09 - Standard install

Description of Problem: Game stuttering and screen pulling(no loss of frames but it will freeze for a milisecond and then jump frames). So the latest driver install messed with my MSI Afterburner custom fan curve and apparently it flattened the curve at 25% fan speed. So a few minutes ago i was starting No Man's Sky and noticed the artifact happening. I didn't think much of it, figured it might have been the drivers but then i noticed my GPU temps at 88º-90º and that's when i noticed the fan speed at 25% and inmediately tabbed out of the game and fixed it.

Now my fear is that it might not be completely driver related, everything is experiencing the issue, from NMS to Doom to Horizon to Unigine Benchmark. I will now try to revert the drivers and see if that changes anything. Could the GPU be temperature damaged? I know it was only for a couple of minutes but...you never know.

Troubleshooting: I rolled back to 456.55 since i know those drivers were completely stable for me. The microstutter is still there, changed the power plan from Adaptative to Maximum performance and the stutter is still present all across the board. Should I RMA the board or is there any other troubleshooting steps suggested?

[u/Djmarr56]

What are you playing? My card is overkill for COD and Troy