Gigabyte GTX 970 Mini iTX OC Black screen/TDR when under load from gaming

[Aletdownofstate]

Getting the standard black screen, no signal, sound still going while under the load of gaming.

Temps within reasonable limits, never seen it go above 68C. Wondering if it's power related?

i7 4790 @ 3.6Ghz
16Gb HyperX Fury Black
Gigabyte GTX 970 Mini iTX OC (Running on 359.06)
MSI H97I AC
Cooler Master B500 ver.2 500W

Factory OC is 1076/1216, I haven't tweaked it at all myself and the bios on the GPU and mobo is up to date.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Valnac]

This will be tough to trouble shoot definitively unless you have another machine you could toss the card in and stress it. I would definitely say your PSU is on the weak side. Your pc is likely using around 400 watts making that 500 watt run ragged. You want about 25% (My opinion. Some say more or less.) threshold so you aren't always taxing the PSU.

 

[Aletdownofstate]

This will be tough to trouble shoot definitively unless you have another machine you could toss the card in and stress it. I would definitely say your PSU is on the weak side. Your pc is likely using around 400 watts making that 500 watt run ragged. You want about 25% (My opinion. Some say more or less.) threshold so you aren't always taxing the PSU.

I do actually. Not sure whether it will be good enough to stress it much though.

It's got an AMD A10, 8Gb DDR3, Gigabyte F2A85XM-HD3 a CIT 500W PSU (I know, I know - I didn't know about their rep at the time and was on a budget) and a GTX 750 Ti in it at the moment. Anything you can recommend in order to test it? I'm not entirely sure what I'm looking for.

 

[Valnac]

This will be tough to trouble shoot definitively unless you have another machine you could toss the card in and stress it. I would definitely say your PSU is on the weak side. Your pc is likely using around 400 watts making that 500 watt run ragged. You want about 25% (My opinion. Some say more or less.) threshold so you aren't always taxing the PSU.

I do actually. Not sure whether it will be good enough to stress it much though.

It's got an AMD A10, 8Gb DDR3, Gigabyte F2A85XM-HD3 a CIT 500W PSU (I know, I know - I didn't know about their rep at the time and was on a budget) and a GTX 750 Ti in it at the moment. Anything you can recommend in order to test it? I'm not entirely sure what I'm looking for.

Well throw it in there and see if you can break it. By the way has this always happened or a new development?

 

[Aletdownofstate]

Well throw it in there and see if you can break it. By the way has this always happened or a new development?

I'll throw it in tomorrow and run Unigine and see what happens.

I've only had the machine for a few weeks (it all arrived the day after Fallout 4's release conveniently, iirc.) So it's all new. It's been an issue that I've been trying to get to the bottom of since day one.

There's a few odd things I've noticed about it too. If it happens and I do a hard reset then load whatever I'm playing back up, I won't have any issues whatsoever. It's only if I'm running Chrome and what not - general use before hand that seems to cause it to do its thing.

I've read some stuff on the Nvidia forums about 970's throttling once they hit 68C and being crap at raising voltages once they've been in low utilization situations, but I've never really been able to pin anything down as a definitive cause, other than maybe the fact that CM PSU's are kind of bad.

 

[davidlhcaz]

Well throw it in there and see if you can break it. By the way has this always happened or a new development?

I'll throw it in tomorrow and run Unigine and see what happens.

I've only had the machine for a few weeks (it all arrived the day after Fallout 4's release conveniently, iirc.) So it's all new. It's been an issue that I've been trying to get to the bottom of since day one.

There's a few odd things I've noticed about it too. If it happens and I do a hard reset then load whatever I'm playing back up, I won't have any issues whatsoever. It's only if I'm running Chrome and what not - general use before hand that seems to cause it to do its thing.

I've read some stuff on the Nvidia forums about 970's throttling once they hit 68C and being crap at raising voltages once they've been in low utilization situations, but I've never really been able to pin anything down as a definitive cause, other than maybe the fact that CM PSU's are kind of bad.

I know this is reviving an old thread, but I am having the same issue and have tried the card in two machines and have had the same results. Any new findings? I am frustrated with the issue as well 🙁