Checking for issues with the new Asus TUF 5070 Ti model
Checking for issues with the new Asus TUF 5070 Ti model
Two days I received this card:
https://a.co/d/fpOY56u
It seems to work just fine for the most part. I already rendered almost a thousand frames in Blender at 6000 samples each, and I spent about two hours playing different games that are very demanding, like F1 25 with path tracing enabled, and Forza Horizon 5.
Now, something happened about three times already that concerns me. I will be working in Blender and have a few other programs open, and at one point nothing will respond, except the mouse pointer. I can move it around all I want, and it's smooth, but everything else is completely unresponsive. The last time happened about ten minutes ago, and I typing this on my Mac, waiting for the PC to respond, but nothing happens.
As far as I remember, this has never happened on the same PC since I built it in January, when I had the Asus 4060 Ti 16 GB in it.
This is my motherboard:
https://a.co/d/2GmcVXK
and this is the power supply:
https://a.co/d/4j8aRJo
The machine has 192 GB of this RAM:
https://a.co/d/1mFof9f
Could these issues mean that the card is defective? Or do I maybe have to change something in the BIOS? The BIOS in this motherboard is massive, and the manual barely helps, because it basically tells you something useless like this or that other setting allow you to enable or disable this function, but it doesn't explain what the function is.
What processor are you using? Which BIOS version is installed on your motherboard? Remove two RAM sticks from the case, keeping them in slots A2 and B2, and check if the problem continues. You mentioned acquiring a discrete GPU two days ago. Did you run DDU to eliminate all GPU drivers (Intel, AMD, Nvidia) in Safe Mode, followed by manually installing the newest driver via an elevated command, such as right-clicking the installer and selecting Run as Administrator?
The specs that are important are in my post. Added to that, there are four 4 TB Samsung NVMe SSDs and an LG burner.
i9 14900 KF. BIOS is version 2001, the latest so far. As for messing with RAM sticks, definitely no. I'm not going to put pressure on the motherboard when there's no reason for it. The machine was working perfectly with the 4060 Ti, or at least to an extent that this sort of thing never happened. If the RAM had anything to do with this, it would've happened several times since I built the machine.
No, I didn't know DDU existed. I simply launched the Nvidia app and switched to the Game driver. If this happens again I will definitely do all that.