Is my power supply dead?

[Speckle]

130R said:

t sounds pretty conclusive based on the tests you have done. The only other thing I was going to suggest was to check the power cables, but then I saw you said it doesn't require additional power. If you order the new GPU from somewhere reputable (I can recommend overclockers from personal experience) you always have 14 days cancellation period for the new card.

Luckily GPU is pretty much the easiest thing to change!

It seems pretty conclusive to me also. Just to clarify, the graphics card I suspect has failed does require additional power (Geforce 1070 GTX) but, has now been tested with 2 different PSUs and therefore different cables so, I think I can rule that out.

Overclockers returns policy seems sensible as they appear to understand that you'll need to take it out of the packaging in order to test it. I considered nipping to PC World after work but, they will only refund in full if goods are unopened which isn't really very helpful.

Now to choose a card - This one looks like a respectable upgrade: https://www.overclockers.co.uk/evga-geforce-rtx-20...

[Speckle]

So, a bit of an update as nobody likes an unresolved thread! I took the GPU to a local PC repair shop just to be certain, and they have confirmed it is indeed dead.

So I have now ordered a shiny new 2080 XC2 Ultra Gaming GPU. In advance of it's arrival, I thought I would uninstall the drivers of the existing card but, they don't seem to appear in the add/remove programs list. I see an NVidia 3D vision controller driver, Nvidia Geforce Experience and Nvidia PhysX system software but, no display driver..

This raises a few questions which I'm hoping someone can answer for me:-

1 - Do I even need to uninstall the drivers for the old card before installing the new card?
2 - If so, how do I do it if I can't see them in the programs list?
3 - Do I need to uninstall any of the Nvidia software listed above?

Thanks in advance

[Narcisus]

You’ve spent £600 on a 2080 ! ? What’s your cpu ?

[Speckle]

Narcisus said:

You’ve spent £600 on a 2080 ! ? What’s your cpu ?

i7 quad core something or other.

[xjay1337]

Speckle said:

So, a bit of an update as nobody likes an unresolved thread! I took the GPU to a local PC repair shop just to be certain, and they have confirmed it is indeed dead.

So I have now ordered a shiny new 2080 XC2 Ultra Gaming GPU. In advance of it's arrival, I thought I would uninstall the drivers of the existing card but, they don't seem to appear in the add/remove programs list. I see an NVidia 3D vision controller driver, Nvidia Geforce Experience and Nvidia PhysX system software but, no display driver..

This raises a few questions which I'm hoping someone can answer for me:-

1 - Do I even need to uninstall the drivers for the old card before installing the new card?
2 - If so, how do I do it if I can't see them in the programs list?
3 - Do I need to uninstall any of the Nvidia software listed above?

Thanks in advance

You don't need to worry about uninstalling the old Nvidia drivers.
It will update itself when you plug in the 2080.

[Speckle]

xjay1337 said:

You don't need to worry about uninstalling the old Nvidia drivers.
It will update itself when you plug in the 2080.

I was rather hoping that would be the case

[Narcisus]

Reason I ask is unless you are gaming at higher resolution than 1080 a 2080 could be overkill

[Speckle]

Narcisus said:

Reason I ask is unless you are gaming at higher resolution than 1080 a 2080 could be overkill

I mostly use the rig for sim racing in VR and (using a Vive so, effectively 2 x 1080p displays concurrently) so the additional grunt should enable me to use higher ingame graphics settings.

Mostly, I'm taking advantage of the 'upgrade opportunity' to futureproof the rig should I decide to upgrade the HMD at any point. With my current setup, the 2080 XC2 ultra is probably overkill but, some of the new headsets like the Valve Index look interesting.

My 'monitor' at the moment is my old 60" 1080p plasma but, this'll probably motivate me to get a smaller LED 4k TV as a replacement.

Most importantly, the card has programmable lights so, the money was well spent I'm sure you'll agree

[Narcisus]

Haha ! That sounds cool. Not even managed to try vr yet ! 2080 is a beast. Probably go for a 2070s in my new rig.

[Speckle]

Narcisus said:

Haha ! That sounds cool. Not even managed to try vr yet ! 2080 is a beast. Probably go for a 2070s in my new rig.

Installed it last night - it does look very cool - not that the lights make any difference with the Vive on my head! First impressions are that the framerate (in PCars 2) seemed smoother than before. I plan to play around with some of the graphics tonight, see if I can bump them up a bit.


A 2070 will easily run VR, my 1070 was great for the 3 years it lasted! I can't recommend it highly enough if you like sims/driving games - I could never go back to a flat screen now.

[Narcisus]

Speckle said:

Installed it last night - it does look very cool - not that the lights make any difference with the Vive on my head! First impressions are that the framerate (in PCars 2) seemed smoother than before. I plan to play around with some of the graphics tonight, see if I can bump them up a bit.


A 2070 will easily run VR, my 1070 was great for the 3 years it lasted! I can't recommend it highly enough if you like sims/driving games - I could never go back to a flat screen now.

Please don't tempt me ! About to do a new build that's going to cost the best part of 2.5k.... Does your Mrs take the p### ? It was bad enough for me when I had the Nvidia glasses on and earphones !

[Speckle]

Narcisus said:

Please don't tempt me ! About to do a new build that's going to cost the best part of 2.5k.... Does your Mrs take the p### ? It was bad enough for me when I had the Nvidia glasses on and earphones !

I've had two different girlfriends since getting the Vive - both took the piss, and both are now history (and yet the Vive endures!)

[Narcisus]

Speckle said:

I've had two different girlfriends since getting the Vive - both took the piss, and both are now history (and yet the Vive endures!)

! Thats how it should be ..... Just put this on another thread... Ordering when I get home. First machine i've not built myself !!

Case - be quiet! SILENT BASE 801 Orange solid side panel

MB - ASUS TUF X570-PLUS GAMING

CPU - AMD Ryzen 9 3900X, Zen 2, 12-core with SMT, 3.8GHz, 4.6GHz Turbo

Cooler - Corsair Hydro H115i PRO RGB - 280mm Liquid Cooler

Memory - 16GB (2x8GB) Corsair DDR4 Dominator Platinum RGB - 3600MHz

GPU - EVGA NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 8GB XC ULTRA GAMING Turing Graphics Card

PSU - Silent Corsair RM850x, Modular, Silent, 80PLUS Gold - Dual GPU

SSD PCIe ( M.2 ) - 500GB Samsung 970 EVO PLUS, 3500MB/s Read. 3200MB/s Write, 480K IOPS

Hard Drives - x 3 - 6TB Seagate ST6000DM003 BarraCuda, 5400rpm, 256MB Cache

[Speckle]

Narcisus said:

! Thats how it should be ..... Just put this on another thread... Ordering when I get home. First machine i've not built myself !!

Case - be quiet! SILENT BASE 801 Orange solid side panel

MB - ASUS TUF X570-PLUS GAMING

CPU - AMD Ryzen 9 3900X, Zen 2, 12-core with SMT, 3.8GHz, 4.6GHz Turbo

Cooler - Corsair Hydro H115i PRO RGB - 280mm Liquid Cooler

Memory - 16GB (2x8GB) Corsair DDR4 Dominator Platinum RGB - 3600MHz

GPU - EVGA NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 8GB XC ULTRA GAMING Turing Graphics Card

PSU - Silent Corsair RM850x, Modular, Silent, 80PLUS Gold - Dual GPU

SSD PCIe ( M.2 ) - 500GB Samsung 970 EVO PLUS, 3500MB/s Read. 3200MB/s Write, 480K IOPS

Hard Drives - x 3 - 6TB Seagate ST6000DM003 BarraCuda, 5400rpm, 256MB Cache

Very nice!

[Narcisus]

Cheers. Also first time i've been non Intel since I had a Cyrix CPU .... A long time ago.