Dying/Faulty Master Card In SLI? Should it be the Slave Card?

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I have two SLI GTX 690's. One of them is either dying or is damaged and it will black screen while gaming after about half an hour and hard lock the computer until I underclock it by 50mhz on gpu core, when its underclocked, no issues.

This faulty/damaged card is my master card in SLI as it had waterblock on it so when I got my second 690, I just put it in as my slave card, the second/slave card does seem to be healthy and no issues.

In a week I'm going to be installing a waterblock on the second card and draining my loop, so this is the time if I should swap out the master damaged/dying card into the slave slot, but will it make things worse? Or will it actually help and maybe I can atleast run on stock speeds? Thanks
 
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He didn't ask if a 1070 is better. He's asking if he water cools them maybe his dead gpu might work and your answer is maybe, put it in a oven and try to fix it and put a waterblock to get some more life out of it
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He didn't ask if a 1070 is better. He's asking if he water cools them maybe his dead gpu might work and your answer is maybe, put it in a oven and try to fix it and put a waterblock to get some more life out of it
 
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I got the second 690 just because I got a two 4K monitors and SLI is better for higher resolution. The single card ran all games on my old monitor which was 1080p perfectly fine, CSGO was at around 300fps on maxed settings and GTA V at over 100fps with medium to high settings.

I also only spent $200 on the second 690 while used 1070's start from $600-$700 and you never know if it was mined on.

I don't plan to upgrade until 11xx cards come out, that's when all the miners will be selling the 10xx cards and since ebay and craiglist will be flooded with them, they will go for dirt cheap.
 
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I already had the baking idea in my head but I never done it before but I heard it can do miracles. Before I do shove it into an oven. I wanted to find out if I could simply get away by using it as a slave card or if anyone had any ideas why the card does what it does.

 
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I was simply saying, if he can't fix his current card, don't waste any money on another 690 as a replacement.

Money is much better spent getting something current or even waiting till Volta as he previously mentioned.

 
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Baking is a temp fix. Usualy within a week to max 3 months it breaks again.
 
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Not 3 months, actually atleast 9 months tbh. I had a completely dead gtx 460 and I got it working again for a year. I replaced the thermal paste and it worked really cool.
 
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