I recently upgraded my PC after 5 years of the same hardware. Everything is new in the computer aside from the case itself and one 250GB Samsung SSD. Everything was working fine on the normal games I play (Tarkov, Rocket League, CSGO), but once I play new titles like Modern Warefare and others is where I see the issue.
My PC is randomly restarting with no warnings or errors. All the other things plugged into the outlet (Monitors and such) keep power so it shouldn't be the outlet, which is why I suspect it's something inside the PC. The crashes don't happen at a uniform time either. I could play for 30 min and it restart, or it could just not happen all day, very strange.
I had my buddy who's more tech savvy than myself try and see what he can find. We updated all drivers, BIOS is updated, shortly after crashes we would look in the Windows Event Viewer, and none of that would give us any info regarding crashes, and they would still occur. We've downloaded a few programs to help monitor, but still no really pressing issues that either of us can see.
One thing we noticed in the tests is that my Graphics Card (EVGA RTX 2080ti) runs quite hot. (around 83 Celsius on demanding games, which are the ones the PC crashes on).
Again, I'm not too technical with this but in the info i have seen on other forums, it almost seems common for high intensity games to have the card run hot. We tested to see if the temperature was the cause of the problem and nothing is giving us clear yes or no. I'm not running any sort of aftermarket cooler for my GPU, just the stock 2 fans, so the other thing we thought was my intake and outake fans on the case weren't performing. My case isn't the best for cooling (NZXT H440) but even when running the PC with the panels off for maximum air flow, the card was only a few degrees cooler (the high 70's), and still crashed after around an hour or so.
CPU sits around high 60's or low 70's so that doesn't seem like it should cause too many issues in temps.
Another thing that was brought up was the power supply, so I replaced it with a brand new Corsair 850 Gold and the issue is still persisting.
We suspect the card might be the cause of the problem so we swapped my old card (MSI GTX 970) into the system, and the crashes didn't happen. But again, this could be one of those days where it doesn't happen like it sometimes does, it's hard to say. If there's more tests I can do for the graphics card itself that would be helpful, maybe some issue with VRAM?
Here's the complete part list, maybe there's something conflicting that I don't know about. But if anyone has ideas or suggestions of what I could do next please let me know, thank you!
[Case:] NZXT H440 Mid Tower Case https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B015401I06/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o06_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
[Motherboard:] MSI Z390-A Pro LGA1151 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07J6Z9KJ2/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o09_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
[CPU:] Intel Core i9-9900k Coffee Lake 8-Core, 16-Thread, 3.6 GHz https://www.newegg.com/core-i9-9th-gen-intel-core-i9-9900k/p/N82E16819117957?Item=N82E16819117957 [GPU:] EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Black Edition, 11GB https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07KSPW8HQ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
[RAM:] G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 32GB (2 x 16GB) https://www.newegg.com/g-skill-32gb-288-pin-ddr4-sdram/p/N82E16820232091?Item=N82E16820232091
[PSU:] CORSAIR RM850, 850 Watt 80+ Gold https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07RCKG95L/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
[SSDs:] Samsung 860 EVO 1TB SATA III https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B078DPCY3T/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Samsung 860 EVO 500GB SATA III https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0781Z7Y3S/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Samsung 850 EVO SATA III https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00OAJ412U/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
[CPU Cooler:] Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO, 120mm Fan https://www.newegg.com/cooler-maste...0pk-r2/p/N82E16835103099?Item=N82E16835103099
My PC is randomly restarting with no warnings or errors. All the other things plugged into the outlet (Monitors and such) keep power so it shouldn't be the outlet, which is why I suspect it's something inside the PC. The crashes don't happen at a uniform time either. I could play for 30 min and it restart, or it could just not happen all day, very strange.
I had my buddy who's more tech savvy than myself try and see what he can find. We updated all drivers, BIOS is updated, shortly after crashes we would look in the Windows Event Viewer, and none of that would give us any info regarding crashes, and they would still occur. We've downloaded a few programs to help monitor, but still no really pressing issues that either of us can see.
One thing we noticed in the tests is that my Graphics Card (EVGA RTX 2080ti) runs quite hot. (around 83 Celsius on demanding games, which are the ones the PC crashes on).
Again, I'm not too technical with this but in the info i have seen on other forums, it almost seems common for high intensity games to have the card run hot. We tested to see if the temperature was the cause of the problem and nothing is giving us clear yes or no. I'm not running any sort of aftermarket cooler for my GPU, just the stock 2 fans, so the other thing we thought was my intake and outake fans on the case weren't performing. My case isn't the best for cooling (NZXT H440) but even when running the PC with the panels off for maximum air flow, the card was only a few degrees cooler (the high 70's), and still crashed after around an hour or so.
CPU sits around high 60's or low 70's so that doesn't seem like it should cause too many issues in temps.
Another thing that was brought up was the power supply, so I replaced it with a brand new Corsair 850 Gold and the issue is still persisting.
We suspect the card might be the cause of the problem so we swapped my old card (MSI GTX 970) into the system, and the crashes didn't happen. But again, this could be one of those days where it doesn't happen like it sometimes does, it's hard to say. If there's more tests I can do for the graphics card itself that would be helpful, maybe some issue with VRAM?
Here's the complete part list, maybe there's something conflicting that I don't know about. But if anyone has ideas or suggestions of what I could do next please let me know, thank you!
[Case:] NZXT H440 Mid Tower Case https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B015401I06/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o06_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
[Motherboard:] MSI Z390-A Pro LGA1151 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07J6Z9KJ2/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o09_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
[CPU:] Intel Core i9-9900k Coffee Lake 8-Core, 16-Thread, 3.6 GHz https://www.newegg.com/core-i9-9th-gen-intel-core-i9-9900k/p/N82E16819117957?Item=N82E16819117957 [GPU:] EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Black Edition, 11GB https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07KSPW8HQ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
[RAM:] G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 32GB (2 x 16GB) https://www.newegg.com/g-skill-32gb-288-pin-ddr4-sdram/p/N82E16820232091?Item=N82E16820232091
[PSU:] CORSAIR RM850, 850 Watt 80+ Gold https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07RCKG95L/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
[SSDs:] Samsung 860 EVO 1TB SATA III https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B078DPCY3T/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Samsung 860 EVO 500GB SATA III https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0781Z7Y3S/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Samsung 850 EVO SATA III https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00OAJ412U/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
[CPU Cooler:] Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO, 120mm Fan https://www.newegg.com/cooler-maste...0pk-r2/p/N82E16835103099?Item=N82E16835103099