Poe2 killed my GPU

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Azimuthus#1135 wrote:

people keep buying used/mined/overclocked videocards and then cry that the game is bad and killed their gpu. Old as the world.

Did you even read what I wrote? It was a completely new System. Everything Brand new.

1. Are you sure in that? Because such thing as "refurbished" exists.
2. If you are still 100% sure, then you've got bad vcard that was going to break anyway anywhere.

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Azimuthus#1135 wrote:

1. Are you sure in that? Because such thing as "refurbished" exists.
2. If you are still 100% sure, then you've got bad vcard that was going to break anyway anywhere.

Yes I am 100% sure on that. It was also tested before it was sent to me so im pretty sure if it had any defect they would have figured that out before sending it to me lol

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IshikawaSenju#7954 wrote:

Did you even read what I wrote? It was a completely new System. Everything Brand new.

It doesn't matter. Chips can be broken coming straight out of TSMC. All software can do to them is expose the flaws.

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Aderahl#5069 wrote:

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IshikawaSenju#7954 wrote:

Did you even read what I wrote? It was a completely new System. Everything Brand new.

It doesn't matter. Chips can be broken coming straight out of TSMC. All software can do to them is expose the flaws.

Okay so it was broken but they didn't figure that out before they sent it to me alltho it was tested and it also worked for 100+ hours before it broke?

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AceNightfire#0980 wrote:

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IshikawaSenju#7954 wrote:

And everyone here saying Games can't kill components is just completely wrong cause if a Game crashes your System over and over, there is always a chance it kills any component not just the GPU. Or it bricks ur Windows which is just as bad.

Dude, PC components are high complex systems with Hundreds/thousands of small but important components. If one of these components is defective during production, you will very likely face errors or a non-working product that dies during usage.

If PoE2 would literally kill GPUs, we would see TONS of threads here and not just 1-2 threads about it.

You will find these kind of topics in every forum of gpu-stress-inducing games. Not because these games damage hardware, but because these games ask alot from your GPU. And the combination of high-gpu-stress and an already damaged card explains your result.

And to end this topic: If PoE2 would damage this specific GPU you had, your second card should die now too within a week. I bet this won't happen, which then proves, that PoE2 wasn't at fault here.

you'll never reason with these players. they think it's normal for a company to go on vacation during their biggest release for 23 days lmao.

don't you know it's the brand new computers fault?

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IshikawaSenju#7954 wrote:

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darkdhaos#6939 wrote:

All a game does is mildly stress-test your system. If anything, it did you a favor and exposed a fault in a controller, predictable manner. Game itself has nothing to do with a pre-existing and inevitable failure of said GPU.

That's just wrong. If your System crashes cause of poor Performance of any Programm it can brick your Hardware. Especially if it happens often. Guess I was unlucky cause it happened on the first time but if your PC freezes over and over cause a Game or any other program it can kill parts of your System.

No games or programs itself can't brick a GPU; your hardware/bios/GPU settings can, especially if any failsafes were removed because of overclocking; which often happens standard with new hardware these days. Add to that, that the GPU could have had manufacturing defect from the start.

It's much more likely that you didn't properly setup your new GPU in your bios, or it wasn't slotted properly, didn't get enough or to much power due to either faulty cables, overclocking or simply a defect in the card, even an older PSU could cause this.

EVERY GPU on the market comes with failsafes, messing around with them or not installing the much need drivers/software or corrupt drivers, etc. could all result in bricking your GPU.

You playing POE2 when it happens was simply the trigger that caused it. It could have been any other program or game; even a "simple" stress test tool that triggered it; simply coincidence it was POE2.

Your game freezing also indicate most likely a software problem, as in your GPU drivers crashing. This often happens because of corrupted data that can't be processed, either by Path of Exile itself (gamefiles), your system (Windows probably) or any other software interfering with Path of Exile -> like game overlays.
Freezing rarely cause hardware damage; it's other way around, hardware damage can cause freezing up your game/screen.
It's even more likely any of your other hardware could cause your GPU to brick, such as a faulty motherboard, RAM, CPU, etc.

I would recommend to go over the above to prevent the same happening to your replacement; or let a professional PC builder inspect/install it lolz.

-> Even something mundane as static electricity when installing it could cause your GPU to fail/brick afterwards.

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IshikawaSenju#7954 wrote:

Did you even read what I wrote? It was a completely new System. Everything Brand new.

Anytime you get a new part it's ideal to test it and push the hell out of it to insure there's no hardware faults. Cinnebench is a decent general test for your GPU and CPU, esp the cores and mosfets delivery system. I think windows now comes with a memory tester but there's one with more clout out there like memtest_vulkan.

HW Monitor is ideal to keep track of temps, voltage and wattage.

If a game cooks something there's a 99% chance it was a hardware fault. I recall everyone screaming New World was breaking GPUs. Turned out it was a manufacture flaw. A hardware problem.

Far as loading screens and similar cranking your FPS. I've used Riva Tuner for years to globally cap my FPS so no program can cause that and you don't have to rely on vsync.

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Xzorn#7046 wrote:

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IshikawaSenju#7954 wrote:

Did you even read what I wrote? It was a completely new System. Everything Brand new.

Anytime you get a new part it's ideal to test it and push the hell out of it to insure there's no hardware faults. Cinnebench is a decent general test for your GPU and CPU, esp the cores and mosfets delivery system. I think windows now comes with a memory tester but there's one with more clout out there like memtest_vulkan.

HW Monitor is ideal to keep track of temps, voltage and wattage.

If a game cooks something there's a 99% chance it was a hardware fault. I recall everyone screaming New World was breaking GPUs. Turned out it was a manufacture flaw. A hardware problem.

Far as loading screens and similar cranking your FPS. I've used Riva Tuner for years to globally cap my FPS so no program can cause that and you don't have to rely on vsync.

WHEN YOU BUY NEW HARDWARE IT'S LITERALLY TESTED OMGGGGGGGGGGG

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toxiitea#5772 wrote:

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Xzorn#7046 wrote:

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IshikawaSenju#7954 wrote:

Did you even read what I wrote? It was a completely new System. Everything Brand new.

Anytime you get a new part it's ideal to test it and push the hell out of it to insure there's no hardware faults. Cinnebench is a decent general test for your GPU and CPU, esp the cores and mosfets delivery system. I think windows now comes with a memory tester but there's one with more clout out there like memtest_vulkan.

HW Monitor is ideal to keep track of temps, voltage and wattage.

If a game cooks something there's a 99% chance it was a hardware fault. I recall everyone screaming New World was breaking GPUs. Turned out it was a manufacture flaw. A hardware problem.

Far as loading screens and similar cranking your FPS. I've used Riva Tuner for years to globally cap my FPS so no program can cause that and you don't have to rely on vsync.

WHEN YOU BUY NEW HARDWARE IT'S LITERALLY TESTED OMGGGGGGGGGGG

I build and sell pcs as a hobby and side job, and I can tell you 100% for sure that new hardware does not mean extensively tested, I had brand new parts fail after I benchmark them after building a pc. Most times is either a bad batch or just came in faulty. If you buy a prebuilt brand pc, chances are that it did not even get benchmarked.