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Sometimes I hate computers. Last night was interesting, I decided to play Horizon 4 the other day after not firing it up for months and immediately noticed that it was running like dog shit. I have only really played Farming Sim and C&C3 since the new year so didn't notice the performance drop. Trying Flight Sim confirmed it. I tried upgrading and downgrading drivers and checking the SSD with the games on but decided it was best to check the 1080Ti over before going further, so I removed it.
I took the fan shroud off and checked for dust bunnies or any other issues, I completely cleaned the machine fairly recently so thought I would've noticed any problems but just did it anyway. As expected, I didn't find any issues and put the card back in. Motherboard no longer sees it. Well shit.
I cleaned the card-edge contacts with alcohol to get any finger grease or whatever off, with no luck and after a bit of messing about decided to remove two of the fans again so I could fit the GPU into the second PCIe slot. It physically wouldn't fit without doing this. Anyway it worked in the x8 slot so I know the card isn't completely dead. Phew. However I was now concerned that the PCIe x16 slot was damaged. I cleaned it with alcohol and an anti-static brush and it was fine. Maybe some residue from the coolant leak I had in 2019, I carefully checked that there was no new coolant leak as it isn't far from 2 years since the original AIO failed.
Anyway now the card was working and running at full speed again. Solid 60fps at UHD/Ultra in Horizon 4 where it would skip and jerk even on the lower settings while claiming I was using 90% of the GPU. Really strange but I'm glad that I don't have to go spending yet, I'd really like to wait for the 3080Ti.
I took the fan shroud off and checked for dust bunnies or any other issues, I completely cleaned the machine fairly recently so thought I would've noticed any problems but just did it anyway. As expected, I didn't find any issues and put the card back in. Motherboard no longer sees it. Well shit.
I cleaned the card-edge contacts with alcohol to get any finger grease or whatever off, with no luck and after a bit of messing about decided to remove two of the fans again so I could fit the GPU into the second PCIe slot. It physically wouldn't fit without doing this. Anyway it worked in the x8 slot so I know the card isn't completely dead. Phew. However I was now concerned that the PCIe x16 slot was damaged. I cleaned it with alcohol and an anti-static brush and it was fine. Maybe some residue from the coolant leak I had in 2019, I carefully checked that there was no new coolant leak as it isn't far from 2 years since the original AIO failed.
Anyway now the card was working and running at full speed again. Solid 60fps at UHD/Ultra in Horizon 4 where it would skip and jerk even on the lower settings while claiming I was using 90% of the GPU. Really strange but I'm glad that I don't have to go spending yet, I'd really like to wait for the 3080Ti.