Has anybody else had any issues with the MSI Ventus 3X RTX 4070

[idle sierra]

Has anybody else had any issues with the MSI Ventus 3X RTX 4070
I’m going to return it as I’ve had some weird graphical glitches and a couple times where one of my displays went black
I assume it’s the GPU

This GPU is only two months old

[uneven sierra]

Rightclick windows icon and bring up event viewer

From there go to windows logs > administrative events

Then press CTRL + F and search "nvl"

[idle sierra]

What does this do?

[uneven sierra]

I want to see if the error pops up

[idle sierra]

there are quite a few nvl errors

[opaque wharf]

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[idle sierra]

which one are you looking for specifically

[uneven sierra]

Take a screenshot of em

[uneven sierra]

go to the eventlog

what does it say underneath

[idle sierra]

where are those options

[idle sierra]

not sure if this is what you meant

[uneven sierra]

Yeah I think best steps to do is first a DDU

[opaque wharf]

Display Driver Uninstaller

:one: Download the driver for your GPU from the manufacturer's website using the links below, but don't install them yet.
:two: Download the latest version of DDU by clicking the button below, clicking on the top post which is called "Display Driver Uninstaller (DDU) VXX.X.X.X Released", and clicking ***Official Download Here*** in that post.
:three: Disconnect from the Internet by unplugging your ethernet cable or turning off WiFi in the bottom-right corner.
:four: Open the program you just downloaded, choose a location for DDU to be saved, then click Extract
:five: Open the Start Menu, click the power icon then hold Shift on your keyboard and click Restart. Once your PC has restarted, select Troubleshoot > Advanced options > Startup Settings > Restart, and press 4 to load into safe mode.
:six: Find the folder you extracted DDU into and open Display Driver Uninstaller.
:seven: On the right side, select the type as GPU, and the brand as the manufacturer of your GPU. Then, click 'Clean and Restart'.
:eight: Once you have loaded back into Windows, install the GPU drivers you downloaded earlier. Once they have installed, connect back to the Internet.

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[idle sierra]

I've already done that

[uneven sierra]

Oh

[idle sierra]

I did that a few days ago

[uneven sierra]

Explain the weird graphical glitches

what happens?

[idle sierra]

so basically, it's random, but let's say every 10 minutes, there's a milisecond of a weird glitch at the bottom of the screen, kinda like streaks almost

[uneven sierra]

Have you tried taking a screenshot?

[idle sierra]

I've also had a time today where my middle screen ( I have 3 monitors) went black for a split second whilst playing Hogwarts Legacy

[idle sierra]

Didn't have time for that

[uneven sierra]

Ah

[idle sierra]

it's literally a split secondf

and then it's gone for a while

I'm sending the card back to Amazon, getting the Asus TUF Gaming one instead

OC

[uneven sierra]

Hold off for now

4070 Super ya forgot?

[idle sierra]

Nah, I'm not bothered

I don't care honestly lol

[uneven sierra]

Its like 20% more performance for the same price

[idle sierra]

As long as it is an upgrade to my old RX 580#

[idle sierra]

Nah, still not bothered

It's a huge upgrade from my old card anyway

[uneven sierra]

My 4070 just got refunded from Amazon

I had some issues like yours too, weren't the same.

[idle sierra]

which one did you have?

[uneven sierra]

Doesn't matter, same cards from NVIDIA, but the Gaming X Trio

[idle sierra]

ahh yeah

I can't get the gaming x trio because my PSU isn't modular, I only have the ability to do 8 pin

[uneven sierra]

Now, my 3060 did this weird thing right - but its known working. Like used it for 2 years. I suspect Nvidia is doing some wacky driver stuff.

It did a black screen for 1 second

[idle sierra]

it is probably best I refund the card and buy a new one

[idle sierra]

Huh, sounds familiar to me

[idle sierra]

this*

[uneven sierra]

came back, black screen for another second - THEN got artifacts and bsod

[uneven sierra]

Sorry

[idle sierra]

It wasn't that bad for me, the card still has great performance but just every now and again it was doing that weird glitchiness thing

Also before I did the DDU, there was some proper wacky flickering on my screen

all of the three

went black, back to normal, back to black

[uneven sierra]

Can I recommend downgrading driver as a last ditch attempt

because it COULD very well be this new driver giving us peeps issues

[idle sierra]

How do I downgrade driver?

Also I've already sent a request to send it back off anyway sooo

[uneven sierra]

https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/geforce/drivers/

[uneven sierra]

Ah

No bother.

Tbh if you just do gaming AMD is quite compelling now for what you probably want

[idle sierra]

I do a bit of blender but mostly gaming

[uneven sierra]

Ah blender is a no no

[idle sierra]

AMD GPU's?

[uneven sierra]

Yeah but you can't do blender on that well iirc

[idle sierra]

I'd rather stick with nvidia tbh

[uneven sierra]

If I were giving you advise - you should wait the 20 days for the super

20 days is a made up number but by the end of the month

[idle sierra]

I'm just super impatient

[uneven sierra]

You aren't getting a refund quick yaknow, my 4070 took a week and a bit

[idle sierra]

Fair enough

[uneven sierra]

I gave it back like December 29th I think

Just got it back yesterday (the money)

And in the form of amazon credit which will obviously be shorter than going back to card

[idle sierra]

I can't get the 4070 super anywhere

it's all outta stock

[uneven sierra]

Its not out yet ahah

[idle sierra]

I know lmao

the TUF Gaming OC is better than the Ventus 3X isn't it?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/ASUS-Gaming-GeForce-Graphics-DisplayPort/dp/B0BVMM9VB1/ref=sr_1_1?crid=MEUTR07972YH&keywords=asus+tuf+gaming+geforce+rtx+4070+oc&qid=1705009724&s=computers&sprefix=%2Ccomputers%2C192&sr=1-1&ufe=app_do%3Aamzn1.fos.d7e5a2de-8759-4da3-993c-d11b6e3d217f

[uneven sierra]

Yea it is but for that price it ain't justiable

[idle sierra]

Yeah

[uneven sierra]

You are paying an £80 premium for the same card different clothes

And if you aren't buying a 4070 Super you might aswell get the best value 4070

[idle sierra]

The Gigabyte card is still better than the Ventus 3x I think?

[idle sierra]

which is the gigabyte?

or

[uneven sierra]

I dunno off the top of my head, but at the end of the day they are all 4070

[idle sierra]

yeah

[uneven sierra]

On Amazon it looks like it

This is my preference

ASUS has killed it with the Asus DUAL 4070

ABSOLUTE MONSTER

[idle sierra]

only dual fan tho

[uneven sierra]

Beefy card aha

Though sadly it is dual fan but you wont be dissapointed

[idle sierra]

Yeah, I'll see how the Gigabyte one is then, if the refund comes through before the release of the 4070 super

[uneven sierra]

Atleast its good value ey

£540 for that class is damn good

[idle sierra]

Aye aye

[uneven sierra]

I'm in the new GPU market aswell so you better update me 😂

[idle sierra]

😂

I will

if I remember

[uneven sierra]

yeah alright

any more queries pop em here

[idle sierra]

Will do

I'm just a little worried that I'm returning a perfectly healthy card

Maybe I'm just being stupid

Perhaps it is the driver

[uneven sierra]

This is a cyberpower PC yea?

[uneven sierra]

How much did you buy for the ventus?

[idle sierra]

Yeah, but the original card was an RX 580 when I bought the PC

[idle sierra]

about 600

I bought the PC in 2019

[uneven sierra]

Ah

[idle sierra]

upgraded since

upgraded some components

[uneven sierra]

Lets think about it then - thousands of people on new driver, if has issues, some don't

you recently switched GPU because that came out last year yea?

You save £70 and you get the same GPU thats "better"

[idle sierra]

I switched GPU because my RX 580 was getting issues

[uneven sierra]

And also when you do this swap

When you DDU it all goes poof anyways

[idle sierra]

11th November, sometime in then

[uneven sierra]

This will solve your issue 99%

[idle sierra]

At first it seemed to be okay, when I did the DDU.

But then it seemed to do the weird glitchiness thing, but not as bad as before

[uneven sierra]

Hheh, yea symptoms get worse and worse if they are hardware

[idle sierra]

Before I reinstalled the drivers, all of my screens were flickering

Probably best just getting a new one just in case

[uneven sierra]

You might be overthinking a tad bit

[idle sierra]

Oh I do that a lot

[uneven sierra]

You saved £70, if its anything else, you buy another part

[opaque wharf]

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[uneven sierra]

You don't waste too much money so it should be all okay

[idle sierra]

So try another driver version?

[uneven sierra]

Sorry just in another thread yea I'll pull it up

https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/geforce/drivers/

Do the manual driver search and

This is the one you want

and also

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuRBdfbrTFQ&t=130s

Sorry for the generic video but that shows you how to disable windows from installing a newer GPU driver