It's a new year and with that comes some new hardware problems I am facing. Has of recent, my video cards EVGA 1080 Ti FTW3 SLI configuration has been acting up more and more. At this time I'm unsure which card is the problem card since I'm always running in SLI. I can tell you guys this. When I run in SLI. I can only play BFV. Any other game locks up or I can play it for a short period with high temps and graphical artifacting. Even if I do get to play any other game I will get heavy delayed textures and graphical artifacting with a hard lockup reboot. Other things I noticed recently. My CPU temps spike upward of 60c or higher when idle or doing simple tasks like Facebook or YouTube. My CPU temps also spike upward of 70c and even near 90c when trying to play a game. Then I'm hit with some error codes. This has happened with COD 4 I get hit with a couple of different error codes one of which is from COD4 "Error code: 5437863028" After which the computer will go into a black screen and sometimes I randomly get a blue screen of death from Windows with error code Stop code" CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED. EVGA live support believes this could be related to my aged PSU. A Silverstone Strider 1500+ Watt. I noticed when trying to play said other games I hear a weird sound like it's a PSU voltage sound. I don't hear this sound in games lie BFV But I do hear it when trying to play Dying light or some other older games. I don't exactly know if it's coming from one of the video cards or PSU. What are some of the best ways I should test each card out to rule out any issues regarding whether it's one of the video cards or both of the video cards? Or a faulty slowly dying PSU? EVGA said my CPU can spike higher temps and graphic artifacting can also be a result of a bad PSU in some cases. 
 

Sajin
Testing each card individually with the other completely removed from the system is the best way to test each card.

What about PSU causing graphic related issues?  also?

New?
 
https://forums.evga.com/E...ames-why-m2870867.aspx

Digital_Fuzion

HeavyHemi
New?
 
https://forums.evga.com/E...ames-why-m2870867.aspx

Yes, new problems with perhaps now the PSU or one or both cards. 

Could you explain the new problems? You're using exactly the same hardware right? And you're describing similar or the same issues as your other thread, right? So, why should we rehash the same things again and expect a different outcome? That is why creating multiple threads with the same issue(s) is frowned upon.

Update I ran a Superposition Benchmark on 8k optimized preset and performed a one hour stress test on card 1 (1080 Ti FTW3) Not once did I get any game artifacting, black screen, flickering, locked screen or a reboot during the test. Here's the report card from the testing. I ran the test with having one of those EVGA Powerlinks on card one. I often wonder if those EVGA Powerlinks can go bad causing system/gaming performance issues? I am going to run the same test over again without the EVGA Powerlink device. I don't want to role out the EVGA Powerlink being the root of the problem just yet.
 

Sajin
I've seen the powerlinks cause issues before.

What do you think of those numbers from the stress test on card one?

I setup an advance RMA for a replacement on card one. After testing card one . It would still lockup with a black screen while gaming and reboot back into Windows. I would get reboots and blacks screens/lookups in SLI mode and even with SLI mode disabled using card one.

Sajin
Keep us posted.

Recertified 1080 Ti FTW3 shipped out today....