[SOLVED] Possible dying GPU

[nickp72]

While playing recently over the past few months I would be playing and my PC would just restart itself and crash with a stuttering noise and sometimes would not turn back on until another restart from pushing the restart button on the case. That has not happened now in a while but now I have been noticing that in the new COD Cold War I have been getting many texture flickering and bad rendering in the game. Also, when I play Destiny 2 the antialiasing in horrible and the game looks extremely bad with all the blurry/jagged edges in the game and I am having a hard time getting over 100+ fps which is weird because when I used to play a few months back everything was fine and now it looks very bad.
I have the newest NVIDIA drivers as of 11/21/20 (Version 457.30(did a clean install)) and my windows is also updated.
My specs:
i7-9700K
MSI RTX 2060 Ventus XS OC 6GB
16GB RAM
600W PSU
2TB HDD
512GB Nvme M.2 SSD
AIO CPU cooler and 3 Intake fans in front of the case and one exhaust in the back
120Hz monitor and 144Hz Monitor
(Have had the PC for almost a year and a half now, any help is appreciated)

 

[Lutfij]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

You will need to mention the make and model of the PSU and it's age(so the unit is 1.5 years old?) in order for us to identify the quality of eh PSU you currently own. Make and model of your motherboard? If the system reboots while it's being taxed is a sign that the PSU is failing to power all the components in your system or you're experiencing a thermal shutdown/recovery.

Make and model of your AIO as well? Specs for your ram? Might want to see what BIOS version you're on at the time of this writing.

 

[nickp72]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

You will need to mention the make and model of the PSU and it's age(so the unit is 1.5 years old?) in order for us to identify the quality of eh PSU you currently own. Make and model of your motherboard? If the system reboots while it's being taxed is a sign that the PSU is failing to power all the components in your system or you're experiencing a thermal shutdown/recovery.

Make and model of your AIO as well? Specs for your ram? Might want to see what BIOS version you're on at the time of this writing.

PC is a prebuilt🙁 from CyberPowerPC
Motherboard: AsRock Z370 Pro4-CB
PSU is a Apevia ATX-PR600W (1.5 years old)
Ballistx 16GB 2400Mhz RAM
Motherboard BIOS version: Z370 Pro4-CB P1.10
AIO Cooler is from CyberPower so not sure but looks like a CoolerMaster MasterLiquid ML120R RGB

 

[danjw91]

Some test. When PC is on, go to computer and right click all your storage options, properties and hardware I think and scan them, run command prompt (admin) and ran SFC/scannow, if all good the run chkdsk, Y on next and restart. Download memtest86 and burn to USB, restart and usually F11 and select USB and let run.

I'd recommend all these. Also you could try DDU download, boot pc in safe mode and uninstall then reinstall GPU drivers.

If you don't, download Intel driver support, can't remember full name but that will help with missing drivers etc.

To check PSU, you can if bios permits, go in BIOS and under 12v see what reading it is and as long as it's above 12.1v then your PSU should be good.

If you're OCing as well then reset all back to default.

 

[nickp72]

Some test. When PC is on, go to computer and right click all your storage options, properties and hardware I think and scan them, run command prompt (admin) and ran SFC/scannow, if all good the run chkdsk, Y on next and restart. Download memtest86 and burn to USB, restart and usually F11 and select USB and let run.

I'd recommend all these. Also you could try DDU download, boot pc in safe mode and uninstall then reinstall GPU drivers.

If you don't, download Intel driver support, can't remember full name but that will help with missing drivers etc.

To check PSU, you can if bios permits, go in BIOS and under 12v see what reading it is and as long as it's above 12.1v then your PSU should be good.

If you're OCing as well then reset all back to default.

Ok thank you I will try those.
Just checked 12.00V in BIOS and it was 12.192, will also check intel driver support now.

 

[nickp72]

Some test. When PC is on, go to computer and right click all your storage options, properties and hardware I think and scan them, run command prompt (admin) and ran SFC/scannow, if all good the run chkdsk, Y on next and restart. Download memtest86 and burn to USB, restart and usually F11 and select USB and let run.

I'd recommend all these. Also you could try DDU download, boot pc in safe mode and uninstall then reinstall GPU drivers.

If you don't, download Intel driver support, can't remember full name but that will help with missing drivers etc.

To check PSU, you can if bios permits, go in BIOS and under 12v see what reading it is and as long as it's above 12.1v then your PSU should be good.

If you're OCing as well then reset all back to default.

ALso, I know how to use DDU and windows safe mode, but how safe is it. I'm just kind of nervous to use it.

 

[danjw91]

ALso, I know how to use DDU and windows safe mode, but how safe is it. I'm just kind of nervous to use it.

Ye it is safe, I used it 2 days ago.

 

[danjw91]

ALso, I know how to use DDU and windows safe mode, but how safe is it. I'm just kind of nervous to use it.

It is a pain running these tests. It's like I was getting BSOD, couldn't figure it out, ran tests and was fine SFC/scannow then pick up corrupt files and didn't have issue, bought more ram and ran tests was find, then got 8 BSOD other day and about 5 freezes, done ram test and got fault, ran 2 sticks at a time on test and no fault but all 4 together I got error. I played games with 2 at a time and 2 ran the games and other 2 made it BSOD straight away so sent back.

If you can, and have 2x 8gb sticks then try with 1 stick at a time. I know gaming with 8gb can't happen on some games but worth a try if the tests come back normal

 

[nickp72]

Ye it is safe, I used it 2 days ago.

Ok I will try it in a little while and check results after, thank you!