So, for the longest time i’ve had a Nvidia GTX 1080 card im my linux server for a few different self-hosted services.I got this card for free of a friend who wasn’t using it anymore. However, today i put that card into my main gaming computer(Garuda), instead of my old trusty 1070ti. Then, after installing drivers, i launched a game to test the card - and the GPU just immediately went to full performance mode of fans spinning at 100% and the card sounding like an airport by itself. Rebooted the computer and the card runs fine when browsing and watching videoes, but any game will make the card go brrrr!.

Did I do anything wrong? Is this a driver thing, a hardware thing?

I will probably just switch over the cards again, just wanted it for the performance boost in some games.

Thanks for any help or pointers.

edit: the screens go black and i am forced to reboot. Kinda important part i totally forgot to add.

  • @nrezcmEnglish
    4•1 year ago

    Do games actually launch and run well? You could try using something like DDU (display driver uninstaller) with reboots in between uninstalls and driver reinstall. If that doesn’t resolve it you can download something like MSI After Burner and manually set your fan curves so that it doesn’t ramp up as high when playing games. If the card will launch and play games as expected the card is probably fine.

    • LunchOPEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      I totally forgot to mention that my computer crashes… the screens go black and i am forced to reboot. Kinda important part i totally forgot to add, my whopsie.

      • @nrezcmEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        Haha no worries I totally didn’t see what community this was in either so doubt the DDU process will be helpful. You could try another distro loaded onto a USB or even load windows to a USB and see if it’s still crashing on a different OS.

        Are you able to load something like hwinfo to see what your idle temperatures are at? It’s possible that there isn’t good contact with the heat sink and gpu die that’s causing the crash. Should be somewhere between 30c and 50c idle depending on your ambient temperature.

        Was the video card working well (i.e. was video encoding/decoding fine or whatever you used it for) before the switch?

        • LunchOPEnglish
          2•1 year ago

          Can report the same happens on Windows and Ubuntu.