Did a game instantly fry my GPU?

Hi, I’m very new to PC parts so there may be missing detail.

My PC uses an Nvidia Geforce RTX 1660 super, it’s less than a year old and I haven’t noticed any issues leading up to this.

Today I loaded Skyrim with a big mod pack for the first time, I was in game for 5 seconds before my whole PC crashed. It now only boots when the GPU is unplugged, and I don’t have a spare to test, so I can only conclude that it’s fried… However googling and Reddit deep diving has made me feel it’s unlikely that the game was enough to instantly fry the graphics card? Is it possible, or could there be an issue with another part?

There was probably something inherently wrong with your card, and the fact that things started failing when you loaded Skyrim was completely coincidental. Chances are it would have fried with any other high load too.

@MissNicklaus
That’s a relief! I’m getting a spare from my friend tomorrow and my worry was that the exact same thing would happen again

ErrorHunterEthan said:
@MissNicklaus
That’s a relief! I’m getting a spare from my friend tomorrow and my worry was that the exact same thing would happen again

Once you get it booted with the spare remove the drivers for the old card, swap back to your old card and see if it fails the boot process again. That would eliminate some software glitch from the equation.

@Conley
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ErrorHunterEthan said:
@MissNicklaus
That’s a relief! I’m getting a spare from my friend tomorrow and my worry was that the exact same thing would happen again

Also, check the quality of your powersupply - and use a PSU calculator to ensure it’s enough

I always budget at least 50% over requirements.

Others have suggested removing the video driver - this is especially important if you move architectures i.e. Nvidia to AMD

@Amos
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Should still be under warranty if it’s less than a year old.

Baylen said:
Should still be under warranty if it’s less than a year old.

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a defect on the card possibly. look over the card see if you can spot anything burned.

ethan said:
a defect on the card possibly. look over the card see if you can spot anything burned.

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If you happen to live in EU, you have 2 year of warranty on any product that should have lifespan longer than 2 years. Contact seller with receipt, even if they claim they have shorter warranty period, they do not, they have the 2 year minimum granted by EU customer protection regulation.

@Axel
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I think something else was wrong. I’ve heard very few instances of games legitimately bricking gpus

ehem, new world

Tsuna said:
I think something else was wrong. I’ve heard very few instances of games legitimately bricking gpus

ehem, new world

except New World didn’t brick the GPUs, and people were able to replicate it with other games too. Because:

“tldr: Bad soldering in the cards, it had nothing to do with the game itself.”

@Caiden
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The GPU was NOT less than a year old. You may have had it less than a year but there’s no way it was a year old. It died.

Ali said:
The GPU was NOT less than a year old. You may have had it less than a year but there’s no way it was a year old. It died.

There’s not enough information in this post for you to make that conclusion. The 1660 is still sold new to this day.

@Anik
There is enough info. He said it’s less than a year old. You’re just choosing to not believe what op said.

@Anik
he didnt said that he bought the card brand new either