Nvidia 1080 Ti FE Crashing - PSU or ?

[slashy16]

Hi,

I recently upgraded from a 980ti to a 1080 ti. My system is crashing anytime I play PUBG or Overwatch for more than 5-10 minutes. I have nothing overclocked and everything is using the latest drivers.
The two possible problems I see, the PSU isn't sufficient or the Card is borked. I have noticed while running games my GPU clock on the 1080ti reaches 1800-1900mhz which is way over the FE spec clock rates.
According to nvidia the 1080 ti should be running at no more than 1582mhz on the core.

SPEC:
Asus Z170i
INTEL i5 6600K
Nvidia FE 1080 ti
2x 7200rpm disks
2x ssd
EVGA SuperNOVA 650 G2 220-G2-0650-Y1 80+ GOLD

 

[Madpacket]

That PSU is plenty. Try firmly reseating the card or performing a DDU driver reinstall.

 

[slashy16]

That PSU is plenty. Try firmly reseating the card or performing a DDU driver reinstall.

Hi,

I tried this and it didn't make any difference. I still do not understand why this card is running so fast. I thought FE cards do not factory overclock?
EVGA tuner is reporting 1873mhz during gaming. is this normal?

https://pasteboard.co/1jkKHZcYl.jpg

 

[Bouowmx]

The above-spec frequency is normal behavior: GPU Boost, present since Kepler. Pascal can stably overclock to 2.0-2.1 GHz.

Can you describe "crash"? What happens? Error message(s)? Complete system hang? Sudden system shut down?

 

[ddogg]

Do you get any kind of error message? My 1080Ti would randomly crash with an error but it was due to an unstable overclock. Backing down the frequency just a tad fixed it for me. At stock speeds though it shouldn't happen.

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[Grubbernaught]

I'd try setting your fan speed to 100% and run PUBG, if it doesn't crash then back it off a bit and repeat. My 1080ti did not exhibit high temps (at least on the monitor) or throttle but would do exactly the same thing if the pump speed was too low on my loop (I'd reset cmos and lost my custom curve).

Might be something else entirely but worth a look imho.

 

[slashy16]

Do you get any kind of error message? My 1080Ti would randomly crash with an error but it was due to an unstable overclock. Backing down the frequency just a tad fixed it for me. At stock speeds though it shouldn't happen.

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It hard locks and I need to hold the power button or reset button to restart the PC. If I put the 980 Ti back in the machine I have no issues.

 

[wilds]

I had hard locking when upgrading to my 1070 from a 290. The PC would hang and I would have to restart manually. I could still move the mouse.

It would happen after being idle for long periods of time and during and exiting a game.

The problem was resolved completely after a clean install of Windows. I couldn't figure out another way to fix it.

 

[Guru]

That PSU should technically be enough, but it might be degraded over time. It happens and it can't consistently provide the advertised power. Overall its also 54A which is a bit on the low side for a 650W PSU.

Anyways I don't think its the PSU unless its been degraded to a bigger degree.

So I guess that leaves the GPU or software issues. Uninstall your graphic drivers in safe mode, then shut down your PC and remove the CMOS battery, some BIOSES have CMOS reset option, but I'd just pull out the battery, keep it empty for 30 minutes(technically even 10 minutes should be enough), then put the battery back in, start up your computer and install the new drivers.

In the meantime while waiting 30 minutes for the CMOS to reset, you could try to take out the 1080ti and reseat it again, remove the pins and attach them again, try DIFFERENT pins, YOUR SUPPLY HAS 4 PINS, so try a different combination of pins and I'd also use canned air to blow any sort of dust from the PSU and CPU, reseat your ram as well.

If nothing works and you can get yourself a hold of some other PSU, try that. Make sure its definitely not the PSU, does any of your friends have 600W+ PSU?

Report back what you did step by step what I asked of you in my post!