Greetings,
I built this system in 2016 so it is showing its age, but it was really good at the time, and I think there may yet still be some life in it. However fairly recently, it has started developing a problem of freezing up. It used to do it very rarely, but has been doing it more often. This kind of freeze up is not a BSOD, it's not a black screen. The screen just freezes in place with whatever I was doing, usually gaming. The fans stay running, the GPU load indicator light goes to zero. The event viewer just shows event 41, kernel power. The only way to get out of it is to do a hard reset by holding the power button down.
I was fairly confident it was the GPU, and I figured since it was fairly old I'd replace it. I replaced it with the same model as I had before and it runs a lot cooler (stays around 60C at most), and FPS definitely improved. But, it froze up again last night, while playing eve online.
Specifications are as follows:
Windows 10 Home 64-bit
AMD FX-9590 (with Thermaltake 3.0 AIO CPU cooler)
16 GB RIPJAWS 11-11-11-28 4 x 4 DDR3
ASUSTeK SABERTOOTH 990FX R20 Motherboard
RADEON R9 FURY X 4GB HBM GPU
120 GB SanDisk OS SSD
500 GB Crucial SSD
1 TB WD Mechanical Drive
EVGA SUPERNOVA G2 1000W
I've ran windows memory diagnostic tool with no erroneous results. GPU drivers are up to date. At this point I'm thinking it may be the power supply, as both my CPU and GPU suck down the power like no other. However, a 1000W EVGA is quite a beast of a power supply, and I think EVGA is likely the best in the business when it comes to these. Before buying another, I'd like to do some troubleshooting, but I'm not sure where to begin. I've been monitoring temps/metrics using AMD's software, and I see nothing out of the ordinary, except with multiple game clients running I'm using up around 3.6 gigs of the 4 gigs available of video memory, which I think is par for the course because I'm running 3 displays, two of them 1080p and one at 4k.
I'd appreciate any advice, I'd like to narrow this down before spending further money on parts that aren't the problem.
I built this system in 2016 so it is showing its age, but it was really good at the time, and I think there may yet still be some life in it. However fairly recently, it has started developing a problem of freezing up. It used to do it very rarely, but has been doing it more often. This kind of freeze up is not a BSOD, it's not a black screen. The screen just freezes in place with whatever I was doing, usually gaming. The fans stay running, the GPU load indicator light goes to zero. The event viewer just shows event 41, kernel power. The only way to get out of it is to do a hard reset by holding the power button down.
I was fairly confident it was the GPU, and I figured since it was fairly old I'd replace it. I replaced it with the same model as I had before and it runs a lot cooler (stays around 60C at most), and FPS definitely improved. But, it froze up again last night, while playing eve online.
Specifications are as follows:
Windows 10 Home 64-bit
AMD FX-9590 (with Thermaltake 3.0 AIO CPU cooler)
16 GB RIPJAWS 11-11-11-28 4 x 4 DDR3
ASUSTeK SABERTOOTH 990FX R20 Motherboard
RADEON R9 FURY X 4GB HBM GPU
120 GB SanDisk OS SSD
500 GB Crucial SSD
1 TB WD Mechanical Drive
EVGA SUPERNOVA G2 1000W
I've ran windows memory diagnostic tool with no erroneous results. GPU drivers are up to date. At this point I'm thinking it may be the power supply, as both my CPU and GPU suck down the power like no other. However, a 1000W EVGA is quite a beast of a power supply, and I think EVGA is likely the best in the business when it comes to these. Before buying another, I'd like to do some troubleshooting, but I'm not sure where to begin. I've been monitoring temps/metrics using AMD's software, and I see nothing out of the ordinary, except with multiple game clients running I'm using up around 3.6 gigs of the 4 gigs available of video memory, which I think is par for the course because I'm running 3 displays, two of them 1080p and one at 4k.
I'd appreciate any advice, I'd like to narrow this down before spending further money on parts that aren't the problem.