Question Gtx 1080 crashing games every few minutes.

[Crossfire77]

Buddy of mine has:
Biostar tb250-btc
i5 7600k
Used to have a 1060.

He got a used 1080 from our other friend who had upgraded. He'd used it for years with no issues.
Once he put it in, he starting experiencing game crashes. Mostly he's been playing rocket league and Tarkov. Rocket league would only crash occasionally, but tarkov crashes mid-raid with no error messages every few minutes.
What we have tried:
-Making sure graphics drivers are fully up to date
-Making sure directX fully up to date
-Reinstalling Tarkov, verifying integrity of files
-Completely wiping his SSD and reinstalling windows fresh.

Nothing fixed it. Put the 1060 back in and no problem.

 

[JeffreyP55]

Did you remove the GTX1060 drivers first?

 

[Crossfire77]

Not originally, but then he wiped his ssd completely and fresh installed windows. And then of course installed the 1080 drivers again

 

[SlavfromBulgaria]

Hello!
What PSU does your friend have? The way you described it, the crashes occur when you put load on the GPU.
The GTX 1080 is a more power-hungry GPU than the GTX 1060 and if it doesn't get enough power it will crash and restart your PC.