i think my gpu might be finally killing itself. the scuffed 2080ti. had two system failures today in the past 2 hours. not bsods, just the display crashing basically. one watching youtube and one playing a game. i was noticing some really bad hitching in rivals of aether 2 last time i was playing as well. hopefully it's something else but worst case, i've got a 1070 i can slot in until i can get a new gpu. none of the games i play require anything better than that.

for a bit of context, this gpu was already fucked when i got it. my friend ran it overclocked and one of the fans got tilted so it constantly scraped against the heatsink and that made the card overheat even at super low clocks. he gave it to me for free and said if i could fix it i could have it. didn't want to replace the fan because the way this thing is built you had to like remove the heatsink and stuff. so i ended up just bending and trimming the part of the heatsink where the fan was scraping up against.

that was all the way back in 2021. the card was purchased in 2018 right when it came out. so i'd say he lived a full life.