when it comes to GPU's. Over the years I've had my fair share of changing computers and most of the time I go "from scratch" cause it's been a few years since I've built one so I buy everything fresh.
Back in 2013 or so I ordered one with 2 AMD GPU's as the main point was to mine shitcoins with them, you know, the kinds that are now worth literally billions like doge, dash, etc. Of course during the day when I'd be on I'd also stop mining to do some gaming with them, but eventually they started to run into some issues, first the secondary wouldn't really mine "efficiently" and when I switched them up the gaming with it was all weird.
Eventually I ended up selling one of them cause mining ethereum became too difficult with just two of them compared to the farms people had and the other one just went into the trash.
I decided after that to go for nvidia! I heard their software was way better kept up to date and quality was in general better after having struggled some time attempting to play competitive games with unstable GPU's who let's face it, I can't blame, having been running at 80c+ for years mining shitcoins. I knew nvidia GPU's wouldn't be great for mining but I thought that era was behind me in late 2016 or so + I had stumbled upon hive at the time so I'd waste my brain to mine tokens from now on.
Plans changed, we decided to move with a friend of mine and I didn't bring that PC I had just purchased with me, an expensive and top of the line 1080ti at the time was a lot of fun but cut shortly. Instead I picked up a cheap laptop real quick that barely even let me play gods unchained on when it launched. As we then moved countries once more I decided to ship in my PC as we had a more stable stay this time around.
The PC arrived unscathed but my good monitor was wrecked, screen shattered in the corner so I had to use the one with only 60 hz for a while.
Now I know I said I'm unlucky when it comes to GPU's in the title, and I tried to be smart with the title that the first letters spell GPU, but now that I think about it a lot of it was my own doing. With the mining it was understandable that the wear was quite heavy on them so they died quite fast but now that I had received my 1080ti I had just switched from smoking to a more healthy life-style: vaping. The lesser evil of the two, although I probably overdid that as well as I'd constantly vape in the room inside and after a while my GPU started showing faults as well making my gaming sessions more and more annoying and people thinking I'm just trash blaming things on my PC.
Turns out there was literal liquid leeking from my GPU after a while, lol. Most likely due to excessive vaping.
Now I haven't vaped in a while and as I'm now living in Asia I decided to spend some of my other coins that had appreciated in value on a great new PC after a couple years back to laptop days. Went full RGB on most shit and got the most expensive GPU that existed at the time, a 4090.
Now here's where my bad luck returns, in a gameplay video I made recently, and a reason I don't do them so often, is cause there's these weird artifacts that keep appearing at random it feels like. I'm still not 100% sure if it's software or hardware issue, I've tried a lot of things but recently got recommended to just attempt to re-format everything and update bios which I haven't done. Other than that I've tried clean uninstall of all drivers and re-installing them many times and it keeps appearing. The artifacts are quite random too, some times it's literal balls of lights appearing at random places in games, like, look at this:
Other times it's these weird cube-shaped matrix looking I don't even know what to call them:
Now these aren't as annoying, but other times it gets way, way worse as shown in this video with a hilarious timing when I say "why not get back to some God of War?"
The other annoying thing is that some times if you don't see them, they may still appear on your recordings, so you don't know if you're recording with some fucking Christmas tree lights or those cubes or whatever is happening in that simulation of God of War.
There's been so many times that I've recorded 1-2h videos about to post them on here with text already pre-written as I waited for the upload to youtube until I realize they're all fucked up and I just call it a day.
Now all of a sudden my fiancé's GPU died as well just the other day, she's been posting some gaming content on her gaming account @hiddenblad3 but also needing the GPU to render and edit videos for her insta and tiktok, she had noticed some errors here and there but today it just randomly died and wouldn't let her PC boot anymore as her motherboard, similar to mine, requires a GPU to work.
So yeah, I don't know what it is about GPU's lately, nvidia's stock is higher than the fucking moon yet most of their GPU's have always died on me right after warranty expires in this case. I realize some times it's been my own fault for micro-dosing it with liquid vapor over time but in this case maybe I can just blame it on the climate here.
Oh well, thought I'd shitpost a quick ramble, maybe some of you enjoyed it compared to my usual "informative" posts or shilling zing. xD
That reminds me, to "save" money with zing I've also been in charge of rendering and making the card opening animations, and with my GPU it's been quite hit and miss as if they aren't annoying, tedious and time-consuming to do to begin with it's quite disappointing when half the time the final version ends up being all matrix-y and I have to restart the PC, pray to the simulation gods and hope the next render will be flawless. Ugh.
How are your GPU's?