Question Games crashing using new AsRock Challenger A770 CL 16GO GPU ?

Mar 16, 2025
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Hello,
recently, my GTX1080TI gave up on Life and i didnt feel like spending Top Dollar on a new GPU when theres alternatives with enough Power for my needs in the midrange-market, so i tried an Arc-card. After everything including Resizable Bar had been set up, new Windows install, everything, i sat down to play the game my bf at the time was obsessed with, Apex Legends. It worked well for 2 Matches, then it artifacted, then it crashed. Rebooted, crashed in the first Match. Reocurring theme, since then. I have tried so many Things that i cant even remember what ive tried. I really dont wanna go through the hassle of RMAing the Card, but it feels like its my only Option, maybe someone with more experience can give me a helping hand and show me what ive done wrong? Some Games crash from the first second they boot, some sometimes work flawlessly for a whole session only to be unplayable the next time.

Games that have had this Issue happen:
>Apex Legends; >Escape from Tarkov; >Ready or Not; >GTAVE; >Spectre Divide; >Valorant

Specs:
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600
GPU: AsRock Challenger A770 CL 16GO
Mainboard: Gigabyte B550 Aorus Elite AX V2
RAM: 32Gb UC 2800Mhz DDR4
16Gb DDR4 Crucial Ballistix
16GB DDR4 Kingston Fury
HDD: 1Tb
SATA SSD: 128GB
M.2 SSDs:
1Tb Crucial P5 (Win Partition)
1Tb Crucial P3 Pro
OS: Win10

Drivers are all up to date, Resizable Bar is activated.
Here one of the crashes as an example, maybe it helps in some way shape or form:
View: https://youtube.com/shorts/xs6yCcxllDA?feature=share


Thank you in advance!
 
This is very likely at the root of your issue. A low quality PSU, under-powered for need.

https://www.asrock.com/Graphics-Card/Intel/Intel Arc A770 Challenger 16GB OC/#Specification
I put everything into PcPartPicker and it says i should still have more than 100w overhead, so a new PSU then?
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/Rw8X3w

Addendum:
The same PSU powered a GTX1080TI before, which has a higher TDP. That card ran to max utilization quite often too and never made any issues.
 
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