Hello
For the past few month I've noticed a decline in the performance of my computer; I built it a few years ago now - I will include a spec list at the end.
I do a lot of fairly heavy cg work, rendering and whatnot, I often have 4+ packages open each needing substantial resources.
2-3 months ago I bought a new main monitor (ultrawide 29inch - 3 monitors total) and there have been black screen crashes ever since, forcing me to manually restart my pc.
I use 3 HDDs and 1 SSD (os) 2 of my HDDs are pretty old and really chug when trying to access files from them (I just use them for various, unimportant file storage), the 3rd HDD is new and is what I keep the good stuff on.
I'm writing this after trying to export a large set of files from a certain 3d package only for my pc to entirely freeze up, forcing me to manually restart. Professionally I can't let this keep happening so I'm hoping someone can advise me on which component(s) are throttling my system.
Issues only arise when under heavy workload - I'm suspecting a memory issue, perhaps 8gb vram isn't enough seeing as my blacks screens only started since adding a 3rd, ultrawide monitor - though I'm really not sure.
Thank you very much.
Here are my specs:
Xeon E3-1240 V5
32GB DDR4
GTX 1070 8gb
SATA III 6gb/s SSD (OS)
Various 7200rpm HDD(Seagate, WD)
Great component temperatures across the board (asides from my oldest HDD, temps are bad at load).
Ultrawide 29WK500 29
2x Acer 1080p
For the past few month I've noticed a decline in the performance of my computer; I built it a few years ago now - I will include a spec list at the end.
I do a lot of fairly heavy cg work, rendering and whatnot, I often have 4+ packages open each needing substantial resources.
2-3 months ago I bought a new main monitor (ultrawide 29inch - 3 monitors total) and there have been black screen crashes ever since, forcing me to manually restart my pc.
I use 3 HDDs and 1 SSD (os) 2 of my HDDs are pretty old and really chug when trying to access files from them (I just use them for various, unimportant file storage), the 3rd HDD is new and is what I keep the good stuff on.
I'm writing this after trying to export a large set of files from a certain 3d package only for my pc to entirely freeze up, forcing me to manually restart. Professionally I can't let this keep happening so I'm hoping someone can advise me on which component(s) are throttling my system.
Issues only arise when under heavy workload - I'm suspecting a memory issue, perhaps 8gb vram isn't enough seeing as my blacks screens only started since adding a 3rd, ultrawide monitor - though I'm really not sure.
Thank you very much.
Here are my specs:
Xeon E3-1240 V5
32GB DDR4
GTX 1070 8gb
SATA III 6gb/s SSD (OS)
Various 7200rpm HDD(Seagate, WD)
Great component temperatures across the board (asides from my oldest HDD, temps are bad at load).
Ultrawide 29WK500 29
2x Acer 1080p