Hefbn87
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I just got my replacement 3080 FTW3 (2114 s/n). What're the best things to do to figure out if it's stable? I've only made two changes compared to the last card: I flipped the BIOS switch to OC to keep the card cooler (I won't be attempting any actual OC, which I didn't do last time either) and I've supported the card so there's no sag.
Some people are recommending using "prefer max performance" in games to prevent crashing and card death. Anyone have any thoughts on if this is a good idea?
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kajer533
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Re: Best way to test stability of 3080/3090?
2021/02/04 14:12:36
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That would be me doing the preaching about max performance mode. I was able to benchmark and "burn in" my 3 3090 cards with furmark, gpuz, folding@home, all day long. But once I played an actual game like GTA5, bam, two RMAs later, here I am. One crash on the 3rd card with weird fan behavior preceding the crash, Once max perf mode was set, no crashes, no weird fan behavior.
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Up to you if you feel workarounds are needed out of the box. Quite frankly, on principal, i should RMA every single brick EVGA sends me until I get one that works out of the box; aint nobody got time for that.
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Hefbn87
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Re: Best way to test stability of 3080/3090?
2021/02/04 14:20:06
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That would be me doing the preaching about max performance mode. I was able to benchmark and "burn in" my 3 3090 cards with furmark, gpuz, folding@home, all day long. But once I played an actual game like GTA5, bam, two RMAs later, here I am. One crash on the 3rd card with weird fan behavior preceding the crash, Once max perf mode was set, no crashes, no weird fan behavior.
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Up to you if you feel workarounds are needed out of the box. Quite frankly, on principal, i should RMA every single brick EVGA sends me until I get one that works out of the box; aint nobody got time for that.
Yes, I think you've done a very good job potentially isolating the problem to some sort of power mismanagement. I think I should follow your lead. My last card started dying in what seems to be an unusual way. It never crashed during true "use" but instead started throwing BSODs followed by black screens on startup. Perhaps it had a different problem relative to most of the other dead/dying 30 series cards?
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Re: Best way to test stability of 3080/3090?
2021/02/05 00:20:34
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Hefbn87
I just got my replacement 3080 FTW3 (2114 s/n). What're the best things to do to figure out if it's stable? I've only made two changes compared to the last card: I flipped the BIOS switch to OC to keep the card cooler (I won't be attempting any actual OC, which I didn't do last time either) and I've supported the card so there's no sag.
Some people are recommending using "prefer max performance" in games to prevent crashing and card death. Anyone have any thoughts on if this is a good idea?
Some people are having more issues with older DX11 games and the 3080/3090 FTW3 cards than with the newest DX12 titles. I'd have to look through the threads, but there were two or three older games mentioned that caused a ton of issues for some people.
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Re: Best way to test stability of 3080/3090?
2021/02/05 02:50:24
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Hefbn87
I just got my replacement 3080 FTW3 (2114 s/n). What're the best things to do to figure out if it's stable? I've only made two changes compared to the last card: I flipped the BIOS switch to OC to keep the card cooler (I won't be attempting any actual OC, which I didn't do last time either) and I've supported the card so there's no sag.
Some people are recommending using "prefer max performance" in games to prevent crashing and card death. Anyone have any thoughts on if this is a good idea?
The ultimate benchmark is games. My RMAd card was passing all benchmarks and then crashing at every single game while behaving eratically. Its crazy but it was passing furmark with no issues other than the excruciating fan noise and then went crazy with wow at low settings even. You are very correct to use an anti-sag bracket. Other than that the card should work with the recommended windows settings without needing to tweak max performance etc.
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Re: Best way to test stability of 3080/3090?
2021/02/05 09:45:33
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The ultimate benchmark is games.
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Re: Best way to test stability of 3080/3090?
2021/02/05 09:49:22
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I use Kombustor. It will show any faults and loads up the card good, if you can run 20 - 30 minutes on this without it kicking off you should be good for anything.
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Re: Best way to test stability of 3080/3090?
2021/02/05 13:08:40
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Need to do multiple things if you want to truly test stability at any OC or stock.
Port Royal Stress Test, Superposition, TimeSpy both regular & Extreme, and most importantly, games. Real usage (gaming) will tell you if something is truly stable or not. Be sure to use a game that's not prone to crashing as that negates the point of the exercise.
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Re: Best way to test stability of 3080/3090?
2021/02/05 13:13:03
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Cyberpunk is a great way to test also, with DLSS on. If it doesn't crash there, great start.
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kajer533
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Re: Best way to test stability of 3080/3090?
2021/02/05 14:57:06
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Most of the crash threads are all based on light gpu load games. The FTW3 cards are benchmark stars, they can workhorse all day long no problem. Load of some league of legends and try again.
I would think CP2077 does NOT fit that bill unless your hitting a lot of low gpu usage cut scenes.
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