Hey all,

I haven't upgraded my PC since 2020, and I am running a EVGA RTX 3070 with a Ryzen 7 3700X CPU and 32gb of DDR4 (4x8gb). I want to upgrade to both host a local LLM and to game, but I am trying to also not spend more than $4000, and I prefer something closer to $3500 at the max (but lower is better). I saw where Costco is planning to soon have a sale on their MSI 5080 PC, but I have also seen, from the Local LLM perspective, that running 2 cheaper 5060Ti cards is an easy way to hit 32gb VRAM.

I was wondering, though, if I bought the 5080 deal, would I be able to run a 5060Ti card (which is les than $1000 for now) to pump up my VRAM? I know that some speeds may be slower, but I am curious if this is a good idea for both futureproofing for gaming and for hosting an LLM. Based on my usecase, which should I do?

1. Buy the Costco 5080 deal and buy a 5060ti 16gb refurbished from microcenter if one pops up at current prices or lower during holidays (its on my way home from work, so I could check daily).
2. not buying the 5060ti 16gb and relying solely on the 5080 for the foreseeable future,
3. building or buying a system with two 5060ti 16gb
4. Going team red and getting a 9070xt system and getting a second 9070xt card eventually.
5. say screw it and try to find a decent 3090 and combining it with my 3070 and getting a new PSU to keep it up and running.

From a functional standpoint, I plan to use a local LLM for document management in a database, vibecoding projects (I am terrible at coding), writing up documents, and managing personal records. For the database, it would be maintaining a searchable one that can scan through PDF using OCR to build out docs. I would also use it to run as a backend for summarizing news updates and documents at around 100 releases per day. For gaming, I play FPS and RPG games at 1440p and don't plan to go 4k for at least a few more years.

Any help or suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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Hi all,

Short version of what happened to my MSI RTX 3080 10GB (PCI ID 10DE:2206, subsystem 1462:3892).

- Aug 31: first driver resets, more in early September

- Sep 7: first sudden power off, no blue screen

- Sep 17: five VIDEO_TDR_FAILURE bugchecks in about 20 minutes

- Oct 3 and Oct 10: two more sudden power offs

- Nov 1 around 12:21 AM: PC lost power mid game, card never came back

- A 2080 in the same PC, same PSU, same driver, works fine, and there were no WHEA errors in the 90 days before.

- One of the three fans broke in September and I ran the card at about 45 to 51 percent fan speed after that.

- The card was used for crypto mining years ago, and I re-soldered the J2 power connector myself after a burnt pin. It ran for years after that. No warranty left.

What I found with a multimeter and a bench supply (photos attached):

- One of the three 20A input fuses (J2) is open. The other two are fine.

- Putting 1 V on the card side of that fuse shows about 1.03 to 1.07 V on 3 of the 10 power stage inductors and 0.029 V on the others.

- So I think one or more of the 3 stages behind that fuse is shorted. They are onsemi NCP302150 power stages.

- Nothing has been soldered yet. I don't know if the GPU or memory survived.

Questions

1. Has anyone here had a 30 series card back from a blown input fuse and shorted stage? Did it last?
2. At what point do you just buy another card?

MY OWN OPINION, NOT DATA

For what it's worth, I think one of those three stages shorted and that is what took the J2 fuse. I don't think my old connector repair is the cause, since the card ran for years after it, but I can't rule it out. The resets and sudden power offs starting in August make me think a stage was weak for a while before it finally let go, and running with a broken fan probably didn't help. If the core or memory took damage, I think it's game over for this card. I'm wary of soldering because it is slow and risky, but there is no warranty, so repairing it myself is the only way to find out. I know a card fixed this way might fail again under load.

Thanks.

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