Dying Graphics Card?? NOOO!!!😭 | Galax RTX 3070 Ti SG 

Yea, further testing indicates the same. I'll need to prepare thermal paste & isopropyl alcohol for the repaste. Thanks for the feedback though.

The data I have now is basically the same crashing behavior in both Time Spy Extreme & Port Royal. That said, I have not monitored the hotspot temps while running those benchmarks yet cuz of time & schedule. The fan curve is my own custom curve set with Afterburner. Whenever it crashed, it's just no more display signal while the fans seem stuck at the same RPM at the moment of the crash. I once crashed while playing Jedi Survivor during which I was connected to a Discord voice channel. Looks like the same behavior of crash losing display signal & can't do anything until reset or restart, but the Discord voice channel is still connected & functioning after the crash without a display signal. The only time I have monitored both edge temp & hotspot temp is when running the GPU calibration for Davinci Resolve Studio, same crashing behavior with temp limit at 90°C while it passed with 83°C temp limit(default). Though I can't verify if that's an outlier cuz I cannot rerun the calibration once it's done. Any workloads that pushes the GPU hard, edge temp is around 70 to 75°C while hotspot temps are above 100°C based on a few calibration runs that crashed, & the one time it passed in the video. Thanks for your information though. I feel like repasting is the solution but I haven't gotten any artifacts or anything, just a hard crash losing display signal with programs other than the one pushing the GPU still functioning after the crash as indicated with the Discord call. So that is a bit odd

@@CrippledTech While i will agree that it is odd, repasting seems to be the next logical step. 100%. Take your time and find a good tutorial. It will be nervewracking and a bit laborious but it ain't hard. I really think repasting it will solve your problem tho. I hope so because that is the only fix i can think about right now lol. Good luck.

@@emilgustavsson7310 yep. That is my plan after I verify the temps again with both of the 3DMark benchmarks. Will update if it doesn't line up with the benchmarks. Starting to prepare everything I need for the repaste. Look forward to the video of me disassembling a graphics card for the first time. 😉 Thanks for your assistance! 😁

While I am a bit uncomfortable repasting myself, I kinda want to do it myself as I've never done anything like this and I would like to try out. I like tinkering with my PC 😆 Gives me an opportunity to disassemble a graphics card and work on it now

My card model doesn't allow voltage tweaking, only Power Limit, Temp Limit, Core Clock, & Memory Clock. So not an option for me. Further testing after the video also indicates that temperature is the abnormality, so I'm leaning towards repasting the card now. 🥹