Another One Bites The Dust. RTX2080TI

First card on pre order. Arrived September last and failed just after Xmas. 3 months of weekend only use.

Duly went through the return process, supplier tested and found the card faulty (bsod) and I received a replacement. This was fitted near end of January.

Yesterday evening I was running through the cold start for the F14 and got to the point of setting wing sweep when my Rift went dark.

Rebooted PC. Got error 43 message "Windows has stopped this device as it reported problems" and a letterbox size image on the monitor.

Uninstalled card, reinstalled it with last month's driver and rebooted. Card starts to initialize then 100s of artefacts in the shape of small white lines appear, card immediately goes black screen.

Rebooted again, same.

Unplugged PC, dismounted card, refitted it and tried again. Same.

Now running on in built graphics, so no damage to PC image this time at least. Unlike last time when I had to reinstall everything.

Card is back in its packaging and waiting to enter into the snail pace RMA procedure.

I've always been lucky.......not. :(

So 2x cards failed at 3 months of relatively light use. I'm betting the replacement was of the same batch as the original, although both failure modes were different,

PC just shut itself down the first time and would not reboot (bsod)with the card fitted last time, then Windows said files were corrupted and could not be recovered. I learned from that and have the complete system image regularly backed up on a removable drive.

At least this time I could use Windows to troubleshoot it.

Really hoping that original batch has now all been sold.

It's getting ridiculous.

Oh that's bad news Tinkickef.

I have been fortunate with mine as it seems the issue I had maybe RAM on my other PC and I have been "testing" the 2080Ti on this PC, so far with no issue thankfully.

Hopefully the vendors can sort out this issue. :thumbup:

You can only do this to end-customers like us.

Do this in a DC with 4096 of those cards with 25% failing in like the first 12 weeks and you will never sell again to them.

Really BAD LUCK Tintichef

Yup. That's the way the dice rolls when you early adopt the first batch to leave the factory.

Really hope I get a different batch with the Samsung VRAM, although I heard they are failing too.

What I have found is its not thermals and its not the design and build of the tier two manufacturers like Asus, as the problem appears to be across the board with founders edition and all tier two brands failing.

Suspicion seems to be falling on the internals of the GPU itself, or pcb build problems at Nvidia themselves. Steve at GamersNexus has an excellent article on his site.

Nvidia are not even admitting a problem.

In the meantime, I will probably pack my Rift away back in its packaging as it is likely that the HP Reverb will have been released by the time I get a new card back and fitted.

Another One Bites The Dust. RTX2080TI

this last nvidia hardware release was a bit of a debacle from day one.

features no one can use.

for prices most can’t afford,

with worse than industry average quality.

it’s no wonder their stock price tanked.

sorry to hear about your bad luck.

There were some threads on a batch with bad memory failing as they heated over time.

this last nvidia hardware release was a bit of a debacle from day one.

 

features no one can use.

for prices most can’t afford,

with worse than industry average quality.

 

it’s no wonder their stock price tanked.

 

 

sorry to hear about your bad luck.

Very well put! Let’s hope some competition straightens them out.

So, in lieu of this apparently troubled Nvidia RTX series with a probable design flaw, how does the AMD Radeon VII with 16GB of VRAM stand up in terms of real world DCS VR and 4K performance? Any benchmarks out there?

I would be interested to hear of a DCS / Radeon VII experience as well .

if you can get a new replacement right now you should be fine, and the stock of bad batches have been cleared by now.

I would be interested to hear of a DCS / Radeon VII experience as well .

Check this thread. People already posted their results: https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=231867

Thanks for taking the trouble !