Question Game crashes with GTX 680 EVGA ?

[BeaMizu]

Hi everyone,
I have an older pc (built around 2015/2016) that I usually use to work (documents and internet) and play when the PS5 is used by my BF.
The PC has been sitting unused in my parent's house for about a year (being booted up once every 2/3 months when I went to visit to ensure everything was up to date). Two weeks ago I finally moved it in my new house and almost immediately started having issues with my GPU, which was a GTX 660 Ti.

After hearing beeps and having the fans going crazy everytime I booted it up the PC I decided to change the GPU and bought a EVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 SC on Ebay. The guy who sold it to me reasured me that everything was working fine.

Yesterday it was delivered, I uninstalled the previous drivers, installed it in the same PCi slot I had my previous GPU installed and got a lot of different issues, so I swapped it to another PCi slot and was able to install the new drivers and fix the issues I was having.

Today I tried to play Honkai Star Rail and Genshin Impact (both worked fine with my previous GPU), but both of them crashed after 1/2 minutes of running and sometime the whole GPU crashed, leaving me with no other choice but to hard boot the PC again.

Other components:
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6400 CPU @ 2.70GHz
RAM: 8GB DDR3
DISK: HDD 1TB + SSD 250 GB
Power supply: ThermalTake SmartSE 630W

 

[DSzymborski]

Do you have another PSU to test with? That is a horrifyingly low-quality PSU and at this point, a decade-old horrifyingly low-quality PSU.

 

[Order 66]

Do you have another PSU to test with? That is a horrifyingly low-quality PSU and at this point, a decade-old horrifyingly low-quality PSU.

I was just about to say that

 

[BeaMizu]

I have a 700W one I can try but don't know what brand or model it is.
Right now everything seems to work fine after having set the GPU fans to the max speed with MSI Afterburner, but will try tomorrow with the other PSU

 

[stonecarver]

everything seems to work fine after having set the GPU fans to the max speed with MSI Afterburner

If you are mechanically inclined and trust yourself I would refresh cards thermal paste and pads If needed. If you do and the pads are still okay when you open her up just reuse pads if there not gooey and falling apart. You'll know.

 

[Tac 25]

Star Rail and Genshin are not demanding games, and would work even with a GT 1030 GDDR5.
ram and cpu of pc are acceptable for these games as well.

looks like the culprit is the PSU.
try finding a better power supply, which will hopefully solve the problem.