[SOLVED] Evga 1080Ti crashes when I mess with HDMI and Display Ports

[ABagOfTea]

Hello,

So recently, I upgraded my pc from a AMD Raedon rx 480 to a Evga 1080ti I bought from a friend. He used it and it never gave him any issues he says. My computer did not have any issues until I installed the new 1080ti. It will randomly crash whenever I am playing games and just recently I pulled on a hdmi cord that was hanging below my desk and it crashed the pc as well. I re-sat the graphics card toward the beginning and the pc gave me no issues for about a month until it started up again. I have a 600 watt psu so I do not think power is the issue. I have done things to push the gpu like running heaven benchmark and it will run fine at 100% usage and will not crash 95% of the time. Anyone have any ideas of troubleshooting I should do?

Thanks

 

[dotas1]

I have a 600 watt psu

You would be surprised how little wattage means when it comes to the quality and reliability of a PSU.

List your full system specs please. Do include EXACT make and model of your PSU.

 

[ABagOfTea]

You would be surprised how little wattage means when it comes to the quality and reliability of a PSU.

List your full system specs please. Do include EXACT make and model of your PSU.

CPU: Ryzen 5 3600x 6-Core
Motherboard: X570-A PRO (MS-7C37)
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x 8GB) DDR4 3600(PC4-28800)
GPU: Evga GeForce 1080TI
SSD: XPG SX8200 Pro 1TB 3x4 PCIe M.2 2280, sandisk ssd
HDD: Toshiba 1 TB
PSU: Thermaltake Smart Series 600W ATX 12V V2.3 / EPS 12V 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC Power Supply - OEM

 

[dotas1]

As I suspected, your PSU is NOT meant to be used with a high end GPU as it is very poor quality. It's meant to power very low end systems with integrated graphics or very low end gpus.

Even if the PSU is not the root of your problem, it's something that needs to be replaced sooner rather than later. You risk your system while you keep on using it.

For recommendations, check the first post of this link:

Discussion - PSU recommendations and power supply discussion thread - Tom's hardware

Below you will find MY standard list of recommended power supplies and beyond that this thread is intended as a landing place for questions or discussions regarding specific units, platforms or related PSU tech, all of which are all welcome to be discussed here. If it's related to power supplies...

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