So this happened yesterday, and I’m still mourning the loss. I decided it was finally time to clean and re-paste my graphics card a trusty 4080 super that’s been running strong. I’ve watched the YouTube tutorials, read the Reddit posts. I’m basically a certified tech surgeon at this point. What could possibly go wrong? Well, everything. I took the card out, cleaned off the old thermal paste, and then applied a perfect blob of new paste. I reassembled it, plugged everything back in, and booted it up. It worked! Temps were great, and I felt like a god among nerds. Then I remembered something I’d seen a post about how undervolting and custom fan curves could really optimize performance and thermals. So naturally, I downloaded MSI Afterburner and started tweaking like a madman. You know how people say “just do small increments”? Yeah, I laughed in the face of caution and cranked the core voltage slider like I was trying to summon a demon.
Now I’m typing this from an old laptop that wheezes when I open Discord, and my gaming dreams are ashes just like my graphics card. LIFE 👌🏽👈🏽
TL;DR: Tried to optimize my GPU, overvolted it into oblivion.
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Undervolting won’t kill your graphics card… it will make it crash but it’ll be fine on next boot. If you set it to apply your experimental undervolt on boot, that’s your fault. Reformat and reinstall windows.
Unless you broke something else, your hardware is fine.
You are not going to kill your gpu with the core voltage slider in afterburner
Why’s this sound like an AI story?
Oh, cuz it is…