It is my first time writing on this forum. I bought a pre assembled desktop pc to which I added a second hand graphic card. The relevant specs are: CPU: intel 8700K, GPU: msi armor gtx 1080ti, RAM: 16 GB, PSU: 650W gold rated. The GPU drivers are the latest from NVIDIA 416.81. I was not pleased with the performance or noise of the stock cooler of the GPU, so I attached a Arctic accelero 4 cooler on it. Unfortunately I did not realize mine is an extended PCB (have not dealt with desktops in a long time) and is not supported by the cooler. The die cooler is properly pasted and working, but the back-plate supposed to cool the other components could not be fastened properly. So I made an half hack by adding some heath sinks to the exposed VRM and VRAM chips under the cooler.[br]
The computer works normally and can play light games, but when I try something heavy, like the new tomb rider or the Witcher 3, it shuts down after a while, order of 10 minutes. It does not produce graphical artifacts or performance dips, solid 60 fps at 4K, the PC just suddenly reboots. The core temps look very ok: 50 C for the GPU and something 60 for the CPU, fans are blowing. [br]
How to I know f it is the VRAM overheating and not something else like the power supplier? Did I damage something permanently or I can save it reinstalling the old cooler?[br]
Note that I run some CUDA codeand I can allocate up to 99% of the free memory (so around 10.4 GB removing what is used by the display), and write/read to it with a bandwidth of around 8.5 GB/s, so the VRAM seems to still be there.[br]
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I am more of a software than hardware dude, so any help to analyze or solve the situation will be very much appreciated! Cheers!
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I am more of a software than hardware dude, so any help to analyze or solve the situation will be very much appreciated! Cheers![br]
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EDIT: int the event log, the failure is reported as this critical error:[br]
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Log Name: System
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Source: Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power
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Date: 18/11/2018 21:45:08
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Event ID: 41
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Task Category: (63)
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Level: Critical
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Keywords: (70368744177664),(2)
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User: SYSTEM
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Computer: DESKTOP-TRR31LG
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Description:
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The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. This error could be caused if the system stopped responding, crashed, or lost power unexpectedly.
It is my first time writing on this forum. I bought a pre assembled desktop pc to which I added a second hand graphic card. The relevant specs are: CPU: intel 8700K, GPU: msi armor gtx 1080ti, RAM: 16 GB, PSU: 650W gold rated. The GPU drivers are the latest from NVIDIA 416.81. I was not pleased with the performance or noise of the stock cooler of the GPU, so I attached a Arctic accelero 4 cooler on it. Unfortunately I did not realize mine is an extended PCB (have not dealt with desktops in a long time) and is not supported by the cooler. The die cooler is properly pasted and working, but the back-plate supposed to cool the other components could not be fastened properly. So I made an half hack by adding some heath sinks to the exposed VRM and VRAM chips under the cooler.[br]
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The computer works normally and can play light games, but when I try something heavy, like the new tomb rider or the Witcher 3, it shuts down after a while, order of 10 minutes. It does not produce graphical artifacts or performance dips, solid 60 fps at 4K, the PC just suddenly reboots. The core temps look very ok: 50 C for the GPU and something less for the CPU, fans are blowing. [br]
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The computer works normally and can play light games, but when I try something heavy, like the new tomb rider or the Witcher 3, it shuts down after a while, order of 10 minutes. It does not produce graphical artifacts or performance dips, solid 60 fps at 4K, the PC just suddenly reboots. The core temps look very ok: 50 C for the GPU and something 60 for the CPU, fans are blowing. [br]
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How to I know f it is the VRAM overheating and not something else like the power supplier? Did I damage something permanently or I can save it reinstalling the old cooler?[br]
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Note that I run some CUDA codeand I can allocate up to 99% of the free memory (so around 10.4 GB removing what is used by the display), and write/read to it with a bandwidth of around 8.5 GB/s, so the VRAM seems to still be there.[br]
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I am more of a software than hardware dude, so any help to analyze or solve the situation will be very much appreciated! Cheers!
Dear all,[br]
It is my first time writing on this forum. I bought a pre assembled desktop pc to which I added a second hand graphic card. The relevant specs are: CPU: intel 8700K, GPU: msi armor gtx 1080ti, RAM: 16 GB, PSU: 650W gold rated. The GPU drivers are the latest from NVIDIA 416.81. I was not pleased with the performance or noise of the stock cooler of the GPU, so I attached a Arctic accelero 4 cooler on it. Unfortunately I did not realize mine is an extended PCB (have not dealt with desktops in a long time) and is not supported by the cooler. The die cooler is properly pasted and working, but the back-plate supposed to cool the other components could not be fastened properly. So I made an half hack by adding some heath sinks to the exposed VRM and VRAM chips under the cooler.[br]
The computer works normally and can play light games, but when I try something heavy, like the new tomb rider or the Witcher 3, it shuts down after a while, order of 10 minutes. It does not produce graphical artifacts or performance dips, solid 60 fps at 4K, the PC just suddenly reboots. The core temps look very ok: 50 C for the GPU and something less for the CPU, fans are blowing. [br]
How to I know f it is the VRAM overheating and not something else like the power supplier? Did I damage something permanently or I can save it reinstalling the old cooler?[br]
Note that I run some CUDA codeand I can allocate up to 99% of the free memory (so around 10.4 GB removing what is used by the display), and write/read to it with a bandwidth of around 8.5 GB/s, so the VRAM seems to still be there.[br]
I am more of a software than hardware dude, so any help to analyze or solve the situation will be very much appreciated! Cheers!