A few questions for before I take a deep dive on the subject

[HanSolo]

Hey sgtawesomesauce,

Appologies for the slow reply.

There was an 11th hour alternative the the 1660 Super (just after I’d actually ordered it), so I’ve been doing some research into a new option for the GPU. I ended up ordering the 1660 Super, which arrived two days early. So I’ve been kind of sidetracked.

I was all ready to respond to your previous comment when the 1660 Super decided that the nice warm bed of my PC would be better if it shat in it. I’m pretty sure the 1660 Super has going the way of the dodo / a certain Norwegian Parrot, and is either dead or dying.

Is my new GPU dying?

I’m pretty sure my new GPU is faulty but I’d like confirmation of my diagnosis. First of all, my system specs are as follows- CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 1700x Motherboard: Gigabyte AX370 Gaming 5 RAM: 2x 16GB Corsair Vengence PSU: Corsair AX760 (760 watts, 80+ Platinum) Old GPU: Asus GTX 670 DirectCU II TOP New GPU: MSI 1660 Super Gaming X I should note that I’ve never had any issues with any of the hardware listed above before I installed the new GPU. Aside from the new GPU, everything has passed burn-in testing, the RAM has went through about 30 passes with MemTest and the PSU’s voltage and power good signal were all within spec the last time I tested them. I installed the new GPU yesterday afternoon, along side my 670, and everything worked just fine for the rest of the day. I updated the GPU drivers on both Debian and Windows to the latest stable releases but I don’t think the driver is the issue. Not least because I played a couple of games without issues (albeit games that even the 670 could handle @ 60hz). I also did an hour or two of modelling using Sketchup, along with various web browsing and trying to download CoD: Warzone. Everything was completely as would be expected. The one issue I had is I didn’t have a decent Displayport cable for the new 1660s, so I’ve been using HDMI on my 1440p (primary) monitor, which looks like hammered shit, and a crappy Displayport cable from the 670 to my secondary monitor. Earlier today, whilst I had Sketchup, Firefox (with a few hundred tabs) and the Battle.Net client open and downloading, my system froze, black screened and power cycled. When the system froze, I could still move the mouse cursor around but non of the open applications responded to interaction. I didn’t have time to try anything else before the system restarted itself. During boot up, green lines appeared all over the screen (the first picture), even in the BIOS, and the BIOS, the GRUB menu and the Windows login screen all looked garbled and had the sa…

So if you don’t mind, I’ll get back to you in a tomorrow. Once the RMA is sorted, and I have had time to get the IOMMU group output and do some research into decent USB cards.