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damn would be pretty hilarious for once i'm not OC and i bought high spec stuff but didn't give it enough juice to run

it's very probable that weak power on the memory can cause it to fail to retrieve bits here and there, not only from failed due to overheat

the smell was strong... it did not really smell like a GPU to be honest, i know that vinyl ugh from fusion of power circuits
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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

ah, temporary possible solution: deploy spare 500W PSU to feed the second GPU power input... ugly, but it would do... and also, if this is the problem, then the memory glitch actually is not a fault but from a voltage drop

just looking up the options for a replacement and it's abysmal rn for getting a grunty PSU any time soon

i can just top the power pin and route a cable and leave the case open

if it really bugs me that much

unless there is some way to gimp the GPU so it doesn't run so fast... underclock it maybe... might be less ugly

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Gowron 1y ago

Try setting power limit to 75% and let the card drop its own settings or you can undervolt the core directly. You're probably right that the power supply was the issue: was probably and insulator melting at one of the connectors that you smelled.

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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

yeah, i'm pretty sure now... it also makes the framerate a bit choppy at times which i can only guess is from voltage drop

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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

yeah, gotta underclock it... and for that i gotta install winblows... might be a firmware patch anyway...

from what i'm reading, actually the 7800XT is competitive with the 4070 at the same power draw, but cheaper, so it's a lot of extra power (30W) for like 5% more performance - that top end costs 2x the watts for the performance, and lowering this will make it more stable probably, and run a bit cooler

i'm still getting a new PSU anyhow... i'm pretty sure once you have a PSU with half melted components in it it's gonna be a bit shaky in the top end of its rating forevermore