#something cracked on pcb

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cunning grail
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bought a used 3080 recently it has not been a full month so i can probably get a refund for this but i was inspecting it and saw a cracked chip on the image ive used the gpu for like a week now nothing has crashed besides when i ran a superposition benchmark, i reinstalled the gpu drivers and it hasnt crashed but in even viewer it says kernal power but i have not overclocked the gpu and i have a 750w psu my cpu is a 5800x3d. At first i thought it was a transient spikes that caused it to crash, but i ddued the driver and reinstalled it and it didnt crash so im kind of confused should i get a refund for the gpu?
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craggy oriole
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i cant tell if its a thermal pad or one of those power circuit things

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its om the complete opposite side of the pcie power rails so no idea what it is

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can you touch it and see if its hard or soft

cunning grail
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its defiantly not the pad i touched it its hard

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you can see the metal terminal thing

craggy oriole
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if you can get a refund definitely go for it but it shouldnt be too big of a deal

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im guessing the metal is just for emi protection so as long as youre not running it next to a radio tower youre not gonna notice it

cunning grail
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hm alright thanks

craggy oriole
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doing a bit of googling it seems like the core is the most important part to be intact

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the actual induction part

cunning grail
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yea it looks intact the only open part is the corner that got chipped

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should i stress test it? i was using super position to test it

craggy oriole
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up to you

cunning grail
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alright you think occt would be good to test the vram?

craggy oriole
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ive never used that

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i am weird and use furmark but its all personal preference

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just use hwinfo and see how much of the board power is being used

cunning grail
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its using 400 watts

craggy oriole
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yeah its probably fine

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its near the pcie slot too so its probably not for anything as important as the die

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also you have a 750w psu and your gpu is drawing more than half

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can you fix that

cunning grail
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its the bottom chip

cunning grail
craggy oriole
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mcm i think is for adding voltage to the gpu which is important

cunning grail
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so if there is more voltage applied to the card it may or may not crash?

craggy oriole
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yeah i dont know what nvidia specd it to so idk if its okay

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is it a evga card

cunning grail
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yea

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the board i found is the evga card

craggy oriole
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their ftw cards are insanely over speced

cunning grail
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its a ftw3 model

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its not a ultra i dont think

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i lied it is a ftw3 ultra

craggy oriole
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in my opinion youre completely fine

cunning grail
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okay it seems fine to me too

craggy oriole
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im also not a engineer