If you or anyone you know have a spare GPU of equivalent or better that you don't want that's gathering dust in a box somewhere e-waste style, and feel like donating it to save the Bears (me I am the bears) hit me up - I'll pay whatever the postage is; it'll be cheaper than a second-hand 1080 on eBay (~$250-300 AUD :///) I'm pondering a Ko-Fi to supplement a cheaper replacement, but I have asking-for-non-survival-related-help guilt, so I'm just kind of Suffering about it either way atm. More below.
SadBearNoises
It is dying a painful death. I think the humidity and recent cleaning caused some kind of issue, but I do not know what.
It's not a temperature issue. On boot, the GPU is constantly pinging high usage up and down, up to 100%. The system desktop lags even at idle. I can push the GPU to 100% load with FurMark, or I can leave it entirely idle; it doesn't change the rough time-to-crash. After 1-5 minutes, the whole system locks up, then hard resets. It was white-screening for a bit, but now it just crashes full either way. I've updated the drivers (but I can't keep the system online enough to DDU and reinstall,) I've reseated the GPU, the cabling, everything. It doesn't appear to be a PSU issue but I can't say for certain.
A friend is dropping off a... 'non-gaming Graphics card'. Something with 2gb ram, for reference. So I can at least confirm it's the GPU and not the PSU dying, but.
At this point I'm completely at a loss. I don't know what to do. I can't take the risk of buying even a reasonably priced second hand GPU. My PC isn't critical to my income or my survival, but it's my main hobby, my main source of sanity restoration, my main creative outlet, my main... Everything.
Pondering if I should throw out a Ko-Fi to soften the blow of even the lowest-end second-hand GPU that's equivalent/better (worse won't work b/c the 1070 Ti was already kinda maxed for most things...). But a second hand 1080 Ti on eBay is like ~$300, which is the EXTREME end of my 'If I Have No Other Recourse In The Next 3 Months' kind of situation, but I'd rather not at all, because I'm a live-in carer, have no upward financial mobility, I've made the sacrifice of not having nice things for the last decade of my life (outside of a judiciously-spent windfall from the passing of my father), and I can't bring myself to get better.
Sorry for the blubbering about finances. I know it SHOULDN'T be taboo to ask for help or talk about money, EVEN IF it's not 'I'm on $0 and need food/rent', but my morals tell me to just suck it up and deal with it.
So I guess that's what I'm doing right now.
