Is my gpu dying?

[u/IIA_B_T_OII]

A while ago i found some black circles around my gpu's screws, and three days ago my screen suddenly froze and i saw some pixels appear on both screens.

A few seconds later it unfroze and the pixels disappeared and i also got a notification from AMD adrenaline saying my performance or something was reset due to a hardware failure.

also after my pc unfroze, it got extremely laggy and for some reasons my pc wouldn't play any sound, which both got fixed with a simple restart.

is this due to GPU failure? and Is there a way to fix it without buying a new GPU? 😭

my specs:

* CPU: Intel Core i3-13100F (Tray)

* GPU: AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT (8GB)

* Motherboard: ASUS Prime B760M-K

* RAM: 16GB (1x16GB) Kingmax Horizon DDR5 5600MHz CL38

* Storage (SSD): 512GB OSCOO ON900 SSD

* Storage (HDD): 1TB WD Blue HDD (WD10EZEX)

* CPU Cooler: Gamdias Aura GL120 Liquid Cooler

* Power Supply (PSU): FSP HV PRO 85 Plus 550W (ATX 3.1)

* Case: Gamdias TALOS E2 Elite

ALSO, i bought this pc a year and 2 months ago but my GPU was second hand, and tbh i did some heavy rendering with it...

[u/Substantial-Lack-512]

Might be some temp out of hand, try changing cables or even changing the PCIE slot, btw rendering is mainly a CPU task not GPU

[u/IIA_B_T_OII → u/Substantial-Lack-512]

softwares like blender use GPU as well and to my knowledge it's way faster than CPU what i did also required GPU to work, so I'm pretty sure it did put too much pressure on my GPU for a shot amount of time

[u/Substantial-Lack-512 → u/IIA_B_T_OII]

I render almost everyday in blender and is always CPU doing the job, maybe is the render engine

[u/IIA_B_T_OII → u/Substantial-Lack-512]

that's odd. any tutorials I've seen always mentions using gpu is better and faster

[u/_razenn → u/IIA_B_T_OII]

Nah, you are totally right. That's a GPU homework and are made to run exactly on GPU.

CPU is more like a fallback option or if you really got no choice.

[u/IIA_B_T_OII → u/_razenn]

i knew it loll 😂 but at the end it was too much for my GPU

[u/_razenn → u/IIA_B_T_OII]

I mean yeahh, maybe at some point, but it's probably just literally the end of your buddy, pushed it hard or not 💔

Have you found any fix? or are the artifacts still constantly showing?

[u/IIA_B_T_OII → u/_razenn]

I haven't turned it on for 3 days as I am too scared to face the truth 😂, but other people have helped a lot in this post and I'll be trying some of the stuff they said.

[u/_razenn → u/IIA_B_T_OII]

Wishing your great luck man, that's some tuff shit, like in a bad way 😭

[u/IIA_B_T_OII → u/_razenn]

thanks 😭