Question Games crashing & audio errors with new PC ?

Jan 3, 2023
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PC Build:
OS: Windows 11
Motherboard: GIGABYTE Z690 UD AC ATX DDR5 ARGB 2.5GbE LAN, 3 PCIE X16, 3 PCIE X1 6 SATA3 3X M.2 SATA/PCIE
CPU: Intel i9-13900K (Hottest core at 81C when it crashes)
GPU: RTX 3080 10GB (74C at time of crash)
RAM: 32GB DDR5/6000MHz
SSD: 2TB SOLIDIGM P41 Plus Series (PCIe Gen4) M.2 SSD
HDD: 4TB (4TBx1) SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 64MB Cache 5400RPM
PSU: 800 Watts - Standard 80 Plus Gold Certified Power Supply

Okay, so the first issue I had was the entire PC crashing when I first tried to load Fortnite. That stopped entirely and I haven't had an entire PC crash since then. Various of the more graphically intensive games (Fortnite, God of War, R6:Siege, and Escape from Tarkov) have been crashing to the desktop after playing for a while. Less demanding games seem to not crash at all. Though, I've turned the graphics settings way down on the games that do crash but it doesn't do anything as they still crash, just a bit later into the session. Also, there have been slight graphical errors in War Thunder despite repairing files on Steam, but no other games have had that issue. There's also extremely bad and loud audio errors (they sound like extremely loud thunder and white noise) sometimes in those games that are more intensive. I've made sure my graphics/audio drivers are up to date and everything as well. Perhaps it's a GPU/Power issue, but I have no clue. Let me know if you need any more information and I'll happily provide it.

Thank you all in advance for the help!
 
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It's a bad unit, not sure if it's your issue here but Apevia power supplies are generally trash.
Yeah I just went into my bios and set the CPU speed a bit lower than standard and it seems to be running fine now. I think the power draw was just too much for the PSU (not sure if it's the quality/defective or they just told me an 800w would be fine when that wasn't actually true). I'll definitely be upgrading my PSU to 1000w to be safe. Corsair and EVGA are both good brands right?
 
Yeah I just went into my bios and set the CPU speed a bit lower than standard and it seems to be running fine now. I think the power draw was just too much for the PSU (not sure if it's the quality/defective or they just told me an 800w would be fine when that wasn't actually true). I'll definitely be upgrading my PSU to 1000w to be safe. Corsair and EVGA are both good brands right?

Corsair preferred, EVGA have too many OEMs.