Hello all
TL;DR: I am almost certain that my graphics card has had enough of this cruel world, just wanna rule out other possible problems before I throw myself into financial ruin by buying a new one.
as the title implies, I am having problems with my PC and I am almost certain that it is the graphics card that is slowly dying, but in order to be absolutely sure, I wanna ask you all what you think of it.
We all know the prices for GPUs are pretty ridiculous right now and I don't wanna buy a new graphics card unless I absolutely have to.
So here are some facts:
my system
Currently I manage not to have crashes when underclock the GPU (core base clock 1040Mhz, now I run 850Mhz, memory base clock 1500 Mhz, now I use 1350 Mhz). With these setting I haven't had problems so far (when gaming, I only play Dark Souls 1-3 atm, DS3 under min settings), but I am afraid that this is just a matter of time.
All drivers for all hardware components are up to date and I recently clean installed Win10.
I hoped that only the PSU was dying, therefore I replaced it a few months ago but the problem still persists.
To give you an idea what my PC has been through over the last years (I built the PC early 2016):I wouldn't say that I put a lot of "heavy load" on the PC. Heavy gaming sessions were very rare, I've never overclocked any component, I usually turned off my PC every night, except for very rare occasions where I had a download running.
Also of note: at first the crashes occured very random, I could push the graphics card to limit for a while and nothing happened, while reducing the load then seemed to crash the system (for example playing a game like Witcher 3 for a while without problems, but as soon as I closed the game I went to YouTube, boom, black screen). So at first it seemed so random, that the crashes weren't reliably reproducible, but now on base clock rate it pretty much occurs after few minutes under load and YouTube is still more or less random, but it will happen for sure.
A word on temps: the crashes seem unrelated to temps. I never had abnormal high temps (speaking of going above 80°C). Also the system crashes when watching YouTube and the temps don't even scratch 50°C (also the temps for YT are the same on base clock speed and on reduced, however on reduced there are no crashes).
In conclusion: I think my graphics card is dying. The evidence seems to point in a clear direction. I just wanna ask the more knowledgeable among you what you think of this. Could there be another reason for this problem? Could it be the Motherboard, for example, and if so, how could I test this?
I am grateful for every reply and imput!
TL;DR: I am almost certain that my graphics card has had enough of this cruel world, just wanna rule out other possible problems before I throw myself into financial ruin by buying a new one.
as the title implies, I am having problems with my PC and I am almost certain that it is the graphics card that is slowly dying, but in order to be absolutely sure, I wanna ask you all what you think of it.
We all know the prices for GPUs are pretty ridiculous right now and I don't wanna buy a new graphics card unless I absolutely have to.
So here are some facts:
my system
- CPU: Intel XEON E3-1231 v3
- Graphics Card: Radeon R9 390
- Motherboard: Gigabyte H97-D3H
- RAM: 16 GB
- PSU: Cool Master Masterwatt Lite 600W
Currently I manage not to have crashes when underclock the GPU (core base clock 1040Mhz, now I run 850Mhz, memory base clock 1500 Mhz, now I use 1350 Mhz). With these setting I haven't had problems so far (when gaming, I only play Dark Souls 1-3 atm, DS3 under min settings), but I am afraid that this is just a matter of time.
All drivers for all hardware components are up to date and I recently clean installed Win10.
I hoped that only the PSU was dying, therefore I replaced it a few months ago but the problem still persists.
To give you an idea what my PC has been through over the last years (I built the PC early 2016):I wouldn't say that I put a lot of "heavy load" on the PC. Heavy gaming sessions were very rare, I've never overclocked any component, I usually turned off my PC every night, except for very rare occasions where I had a download running.
Also of note: at first the crashes occured very random, I could push the graphics card to limit for a while and nothing happened, while reducing the load then seemed to crash the system (for example playing a game like Witcher 3 for a while without problems, but as soon as I closed the game I went to YouTube, boom, black screen). So at first it seemed so random, that the crashes weren't reliably reproducible, but now on base clock rate it pretty much occurs after few minutes under load and YouTube is still more or less random, but it will happen for sure.
A word on temps: the crashes seem unrelated to temps. I never had abnormal high temps (speaking of going above 80°C). Also the system crashes when watching YouTube and the temps don't even scratch 50°C (also the temps for YT are the same on base clock speed and on reduced, however on reduced there are no crashes).
In conclusion: I think my graphics card is dying. The evidence seems to point in a clear direction. I just wanna ask the more knowledgeable among you what you think of this. Could there be another reason for this problem? Could it be the Motherboard, for example, and if so, how could I test this?
I am grateful for every reply and imput!