Diagnosing a dying 3070 Founders Edition
Hi everyone! I have been struggling with my very own 3070 FE, it has started going into panic, losing the display output and running the fans at 100% until I manually shut off the PC.
Running memtest_vulkan-v0.5.0 can force a crash, I still need to test with MATS/MODS, but I am not sure whether this is recoverable. I can still use my PC, just that if I run any GPU heavy tasks, the game will freeze/crash or the whole PC will just lose signal and the GPU fans will run at 100%.
I am almost certain moving recently to the other side of the country is what caused this issue, since the GPU worked flawlessly before, I explicitly told the person moving it to transport it horizontally but they drove all the way here (10h30m by car) with the PC sitting vertically, which I can imagine, has made the GPU flex , and either introduced micro fissures to the PCB or broke the connection from the VRAM modules to the PCB itself.
Knowing that, should I bother with any attemps to fix this? Are there any capable techs that could sort this for less than 200€, which is what the GPU costs now? Or should I just take the loss, sell it as non functional and move on
Thanks everyone