Hi Everyone,
I recently gave my brother a PC built from "older" parts from my last build, and he has been experiencing crashes to desktop while attempting to play various games. We've run many tests on the system to try to nail down what could be causing the crash and I think we have narrowed everything down, I believe the issue is coming from the PSU, which may be slowing failing (it's an older model).
But first, the specs:
MSI 970 Gaming DDR3
Crucial 2 x 8 GB
AMD FX 8320
AMD RX 460 - 4 GB
PC Power & Cooling Silencer MK III 400 W 80+ Bronze
As I said, we ran a bunch of tests to make sure it's not the RAM or GPU, here's the list of tests we have run (in no particular order):
I recently gave my brother a PC built from "older" parts from my last build, and he has been experiencing crashes to desktop while attempting to play various games. We've run many tests on the system to try to nail down what could be causing the crash and I think we have narrowed everything down, I believe the issue is coming from the PSU, which may be slowing failing (it's an older model).
But first, the specs:
MSI 970 Gaming DDR3
Crucial 2 x 8 GB
AMD FX 8320
AMD RX 460 - 4 GB
PC Power & Cooling Silencer MK III 400 W 80+ Bronze
As I said, we ran a bunch of tests to make sure it's not the RAM or GPU, here's the list of tests we have run (in no particular order):
- DDU drivers
- Keeping most updated drivers
- Underclocking GPU and RAM
- Reseating the GPU and RAM
- Testing the GPU on another system (my current system, can post specs if needed)
- Keeping most updated Windows version
- Raising the power limit in Radeon Wattman
- Memory Diagnostics Test
- Testing various "Power Saving" modes
- Testing different graphical settings within the games
- GPU stress test
- Running games as administrator and at a higher priority
- TDR Manipulation