So I have had this problem where my PC will randomly crash when playing certain games. The confusing thing is that it usually happens after 1 & 1/2 hours - 2 hours of playing. The computer doesn't even blue screen, it just shows a black screen and I hear the same weird noise in my headphones as if it were a BSOD (constant horrible sound) and then either restarts itself or waits until I manually hard shut down by holding power. This started happening after I installed a new graphics card (RX580 8GB) to replace my Nvidia GTX750ti. This leads me to believe it is an issue with my PSU, motherboard or GPU, (the GPU was bought second hand off of ebay and the PSU is a 500W EVGA PSU that I have used for almost 5 years). Another interesting thing, when I used furmark to put my GPU at 100% usage, my PC was fine, but as soon as I tried to alt tab, it crashed in the same way. I have also had crashes when full/unfullscreening or alt tabbing from games after playing for a while, (but it doesn't only crash because of this, like I said, I usually crash after a while of gaming without alt tabbing or full/unfullscreening).
Here are my specs:
Motherboard: GIGABYTE H81M-S2H
CPU: Intel core i5 4460
GPU: AMD RADEON RX580 8GB
PSU: EVGA 500W Bronze
RAM: 2 8GB stick of DDR3, (16GB total)
Others: 2 1TB optical drives (one of them is approaching 7 years old), 1 250GB SSD (my install drive), 1 21.5 inch monitor
Things I believe are ruled out (I've had the crash even after doing these things):
Here are my specs:
Motherboard: GIGABYTE H81M-S2H
CPU: Intel core i5 4460
GPU: AMD RADEON RX580 8GB
PSU: EVGA 500W Bronze
RAM: 2 8GB stick of DDR3, (16GB total)
Others: 2 1TB optical drives (one of them is approaching 7 years old), 1 250GB SSD (my install drive), 1 21.5 inch monitor
Things I believe are ruled out (I've had the crash even after doing these things):
- I have run a memory test, with no bad results
- I had used DDU (I've just now used it again, this time completely deleting AMD and Nvidia folders, it would be a miracle if after this forum post is made, my issue is fixed)
- Overheating CPU: I recently applied new thermal paste to CPU, max temp is 62 celcius under full load
- Overheating GPU: Max temp under full load is 80 celsius, and I experience crashes in games with less than 50% usage
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