D2ultima Posted November 14, 2016 Share Posted November 14, 2016 (edited) Any advice on restoring proper functioning life to my poor poor workhorse? It's artifacting in some games, has random single-second stutters/not-smooth in others, and just performing extremely sub-par in others. Also, I cannot use NVENC to record anything (though CPU-based recording works). Slave card seems to have no issues (I think, anyway... not sure) so if worse comes to worst I can still run single GPU for a while by swapping the cards, but I'm still going to be down a card and single GPU gets extremely hot for me here. I have used DDU clean & restart and installed drivers fresh and still has problems (before I even enabled SLI) so I know it's the primary card. Any black magic, voodoo, or any other thing I can use? Or maybe someone has a dusty old 780M laying around I can source for somewhat cheap? Or do I just sell this (single GPU, with second GPU cheap for parts) and go on the prowl for a new system entirely? Here's an example of the artifacting in one game. Watch the flickering lights all over: Edited November 14, 2016 by D2ultima Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D2ultima Posted November 14, 2016 Author Share Posted November 14, 2016 Will try swapping the GPUs tomorrow. It seems up until about 50% load on the primary card it's fine, and beyond that it has problems. Hopefully on single GPU the slave card will work fine as the primary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaerCadarn Posted November 14, 2016 Share Posted November 14, 2016 Let us know, if the problems persists after swapping the cards with the (maybe) faulty one as slave. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D2ultima Posted November 14, 2016 Author Share Posted November 14, 2016 7 hours ago, CaerCadarn said: Let us know, if the problems persists after swapping the cards with the (maybe) faulty one as slave. Oh yeah, for certain I will. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D2ultima Posted November 15, 2016 Author Share Posted November 15, 2016 Okay, so card swap was a success. Primary card now in the slave slot displaying the same features. Less heavy artifacting with SLI on, none with SLI disabled. Confirmed card is near dead, down to single 780M. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D2ultima Posted November 15, 2016 Author Share Posted November 15, 2016 @Khenglish any thoughts? This is what the dead 780M looks like I scrutinized them as best I could, but as far as I can see, the working former slave 780M and the barely-working former primary 780M looked exactly the same on all the VRMs, the core, the back, etc. If I didn't have different thermal pastes on the primary and secondary and you swapped them around while I was away from the system I wouldn't be able to tell them apart (except that ID tag near the core, of course). Anything I could try? And/or would you want to buy the dying 780M off of me? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khenglish Posted November 15, 2016 Share Posted November 15, 2016 Artifacts is always a faulty bga. It can likely be saved by baking it. Let me know if you are interested and I'll tell you how to bake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D2ultima Posted November 15, 2016 Author Share Posted November 15, 2016 36 minutes ago, Khenglish said: Artifacts is always a faulty bga. It can likely be saved by baking it. Let me know if you are interested and I'll tell you how to bake. If it will help, I can definitely try. I don't know if I have the correct tool to bake it, though. Does it need to be artifacting in all games? So far it's only been one or two. The other issues (99% util at ~60% of the other card, random split-second freezes once every couple hours, etc) are universally persistent though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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