GTX 1050Ti Crashing Every 5 minutes, with 3 weeks crash/no crash pattern

PotatoPCGamer

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So, I had this pc for like some months now, but the gpu is driving me crazy.

If I remove the 1050ti for atleast a week or so from the socket, and used another gpu along that week before finally re-fitting the 1050ti back to place, the 1050ti would work just fine for 3 weeks. But after that 3 weeks, it would crash every 5 minutes into heavy programs/games.
I have been testing this pattern 2 times and it's always the same case : 1 week of removal = 3 weeks fine work, then it's all crash. the gpu itself is fine, and there's no performance, heat, voltage, etc differences during and after that 3 weeks, only after the 3 weeks it would crash on every heavy programs/games every 5 minutes. I can always do that, but I'd totally like to have the gpu working as it should every time.

During that 3 weeks, I could even run Battlefield 1 for hours with smooth gameplay, but after that, even half life 2 needs to be on lowest setting for it to not crash. Also, before every crash, there would be a sheer amount of graphical disturbances, like missing and/or replaced textures, broken 3d models/polygons, cut up hud, and some weird purple-ish dots around the screen, usually around 2 pixels wide and 6 pixels tall. Or sometimes it would just went full blank. the crash would require me to alt-tab, even that sometimes the windows would lag a lot after the alt-tab menus pop out.

I don't know what did this, but I want to know why. Or if any of you have a fix to this, it's highly appreciated.

system :
Intel i5 4440 3.1 GHz
Corsair Vengeance 2x4GB RAM, 7.9Gb Usable
GPU Nvidia GTX 1050Ti 4Gb
Seagate Barracuda 1TB HDD
Motherboard Gigabyte GA-H81M-S2PH
 


are your fps very low before it crashes? have you checked your gpu temps?
 

PotatoPCGamer

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no, it crashed just like that. gpu temps always normal, never above 65 celcius.

it's as if the gpu is rigged to broke every 3 weeks
 


do your fps get very low or low before it cashes?
 

PotatoPCGamer

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they're going to re-contact me by the end of the month since rma requests are above the national export quota.

now, do you, by any chance, know or atleast have a theory about why this happened?
 


im not really sure maybe a hardware failure or osmething not bieng able to handle the load