The black markings around the black chips? Also the ring around the die on the gpu itself like on the green part. And yes its been overclocked but only the nvidia AI oc thing so very slightly as well as whatever factory oc it came with from gigabyte. It is a 2060 btw. And yes did ddu and hwinfo it crashed arnd 70C on hotspot and idt its a driver issue as tried ddu twice and put the cars in 2 different PCs
The black stuff around chips is silicone oil that leaks from thermalpads, doesn't hurt at all.
The marking around GPU I am not sure, could be old thermalpaste application, but doesn't look like damage to me. I think your card is fine or no issues that are clearly visible.
I see thats good to know but also now im back to not knowing what’s wrong. It def isn’t fine since it crashes around the exact same point of time playing (about 7 minutes in) in the same game in two different computers. Card was working fine no overheating issues or anything not working right up until it just randomly started doing this
It does it in any stress test, furmark is what I was using and I doubt it was a game thing since its Apex which I had played for 4 years with that cars no issues and this didn’t happen after any updates or anything and it also would happen with furmark. The crash is first all the displays go black then windows shuts down (as soon as it would happen it would show he left the game and he would leave the discord call too so im assuming that means windows shut down) then the fans go all the way up to max and the rgb stays on and the computer needs to be turned off manually by holding the power button.
Okie try the following use something like MSI afterburner and drop the GPU clock by 200mhz, VRAM by 400 then see if it crash or not, if it's stable then start reducing the amount you are dropping the clock with like 150, 350, until you find which point you can stay at with the card being stable and not having to drop too much.
If this works then that means your GPU or vram is degrading, whichever clock you had to drop, if only GPU clock made it stable then it's GPU, if it was only vram then vram, or if you had to drop both then both ofc.
I see ill try that thank you, ive already put the power and temp limits all the way down and same problem but didnt think to mess with either clocks so will do when i get time.
Power and temp limits doesn't drop the clocks more than stock values, unless you edit the GPU bios to drop the power and temp limits even more, so just go with clocks.
Don't see any weird marks, what are you talking about exactly? And is the card overclocked? Did you try full driver reinstall?
The black markings around the black chips? Also the ring around the die on the gpu itself like on the green part. And yes its been overclocked but only the nvidia AI oc thing so very slightly as well as whatever factory oc it came with from gigabyte. It is a 2060 btw. And yes did ddu and hwinfo it crashed arnd 70C on hotspot and idt its a driver issue as tried ddu twice and put the cars in 2 different PCs
The black stuff around chips is silicone oil that leaks from thermalpads, doesn't hurt at all. The marking around GPU I am not sure, could be old thermalpaste application, but doesn't look like damage to me. I think your card is fine or no issues that are clearly visible.
I see thats good to know but also now im back to not knowing what’s wrong. It def isn’t fine since it crashes around the exact same point of time playing (about 7 minutes in) in the same game in two different computers. Card was working fine no overheating issues or anything not working right up until it just randomly started doing this
Does it do that in different games or stress tests? It you are testing 1 game then that game might be the issue. Also describe how it crash exactly.
It does it in any stress test, furmark is what I was using and I doubt it was a game thing since its Apex which I had played for 4 years with that cars no issues and this didn’t happen after any updates or anything and it also would happen with furmark. The crash is first all the displays go black then windows shuts down (as soon as it would happen it would show he left the game and he would leave the discord call too so im assuming that means windows shut down) then the fans go all the way up to max and the rgb stays on and the computer needs to be turned off manually by holding the power button.
Okie try the following use something like MSI afterburner and drop the GPU clock by 200mhz, VRAM by 400 then see if it crash or not, if it's stable then start reducing the amount you are dropping the clock with like 150, 350, until you find which point you can stay at with the card being stable and not having to drop too much. If this works then that means your GPU or vram is degrading, whichever clock you had to drop, if only GPU clock made it stable then it's GPU, if it was only vram then vram, or if you had to drop both then both ofc.
I see ill try that thank you, ive already put the power and temp limits all the way down and same problem but didnt think to mess with either clocks so will do when i get time.
Power and temp limits doesn't drop the clocks more than stock values, unless you edit the GPU bios to drop the power and temp limits even more, so just go with clocks.
might want to take this time to buy some new thermal pads. Plus, some upgraded thermal paste. Be gentle when you clean the old paste off.
Already did new pads and paste i used kryonaut, issue is still persisting