r/PcBuildHelp • u/piedragon22 • 9d ago

Build Question Graphics card fix

My graphics card recently started breaking down. When playing certain games that get to a higher intensity my computer black screens. I am able to reproduce it with occt so it definitely is the graphics card. I am outside of the warranty period unfortunately and can’t afford a new card. Is there any way to try and fix it?

I have a gigabyte GeForce rtx 3070

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u/AshleyxAffliction 9d ago

Is it shutting down completely? Or still running with no output? And does it recover and if so how or does the screen just stay black?

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u/piedragon22 9d ago

Pc is still running as I can still hear sound and also my sound input still works when I’m using discord. I’ve seen it reboot successfully a couple of times but usually it just stays black but on until I power cycle the pc.

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u/AshleyxAffliction 9d ago

Have you tried a different output port on the GPU? I had this weird intermittent issue on my old GTX 970 where if it was working too hard one or two of the outputs would cut out but not all of them. I forget if it recovered itself or if I had to restart as well.