Question Strange GPU crashing with various games.

May 14, 2023
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So this started off while I was playing rust. A game ive been playing for a few months now. I had no issues until one random day after updating my gpu on geforce experience and it hit me with an error. ever since then my game was crashing after just 10 minutes of playing. I turned the settings down and I could play it a little bit longer but it kept crashing. I thought it was a rust thing so I took a little break and then it happened a few days later on valorant. I gave it the benefit of the doubt and thought that could be another random crash unrelated but it happened again and again. so I really started looking into. I clean reset my video drivers, all temp files, everything I could find online to safely remove every trace of my video drivers and reinstall them. I did that and the issue seemed to be gone but I didnt give it a good chance over the past week cause I was busy so I only got to play games for about 30 minutes each day.
I just got forza horizon 5 and I let it do the benchmark test. the test came out to 104 fps on extreme and ultra settings. it runs fine when im driving and racing. but once I exit a cut scene it crashes. screen goes black and red. all pixely the game closes and then I get the blue screen saying something went wrong with my pc. I ran a windows memory diagnostic right before this and its saying there is something wrong with my memory and to contact the manufacture. I built my pc so thats not an option but Im not even sure what thats referring to? I dont know where to go from here and whats wrong.
and for reference these are the specs
-CPU - AMD Ryzen 9 7950X
-GPU - MSI GeForce RTX 3090 Ti 24GB GDRR6X
-RAM - CORSAIR VENGEANCE DDR5 RAM 64GB (4x16GB) 5600MHz
This was built about 8-9 months ago all brand new parts it was my first build but I didnt run into any issues that I couldnt solve in the one day it took to build

Lastly heres what it says on my reliability monitor
 
I ran a windows memory diagnostic right before this and its saying there is something wrong with my memory and to contact the manufacture.

Have you tried using a different MEMORY Module kit ? You have 4 RAM sticks, right ? Try using a dual-channel config. What is the exact memory error code ?

What is the exact model SKU number and brand of your power supply unit/PSU ?
 
Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

When posting a thread of troubleshooting nature, it's customary to include your full system's specs. Please list the specs to your build like so:
CPU:
CPU cooler:
Motherboard:
Ram:
SSD/HDD:
GPU:
PSU:
Chassis:
OS:
Monitor:

One thing you could try doing is try and work with 2 sticks of ram and see if the issue persists. What BIOS version are you on for your motherboard at this moment of time?
 
Have you tried using a different MEMORY Module kit ? You have 4 RAM sticks, right ? Try using a dual-channel config. What is the exact memory error code ?

What is the exact model SKU number and brand of your power supply unit/PSU ?
so before getting any responses I recalled that the last hardware upgrade I made was from 2 sticks to 4. all though it was fine for a while, a few weeks id say with no issue. so I checked to see what the mhz were on the sticks because I remembered that when I bought the second set I was unsure of if I got 5200 or 5600. so I bought the 5600 and if there was an issue id return my original ones and just upgrade them to 5600 anyways. there were no issues until more recently.
so just before you sent this I took them out and checked and saw that the original was infact 5200 and the MHZ on my motherboard was still set to 5200... so I switched it to 5600 and it made things worse. I couldnt boot properly. I tried just leaving in the 5600 as dual but still no boot so I turned it back to 5200mhz on my mother board and all I have in the dual channels are the 5600mhz. its working now I obviously havent had a chance to test anything yet but I wish I saw these 2 responses first and asked some questions. because now im not sure of the error since im not getting on boot anymore.
The PSU is a ROG STRIX 1000w | SKU: 192876845660
and incase you ask the motherboard is a MSI PRO X670-p wifi | UPC: 824142299265
 
Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

When posting a thread of troubleshooting nature, it's customary to include your full system's specs. Please list the specs to your build like so:
CPU:
CPU cooler:
Motherboard:
Ram:
SSD/HDD:
GPU:
PSU:
Chassis:
OS:
Monitor:

One thing you could try doing is try and work with 2 sticks of ram and see if the issue persists. What BIOS version are you on for your motherboard at this moment of time?
sorry about that here we go

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 7950X
CPU cooler: CORSAIR iCUE H150i ELITE LCD Display Liquid CPU Cooler-Custom IPS LCD Screen-48 Dynamic RGB LEDs-120mm Fans-360mm Radiator
Motherboard: MSI PRO X670-p wifi
Ram: CORSAIR VENGEANCE DDR5 RAM 64GB (2x16GB) 5600MHz & (2x16GB) 5200MHz
SSD/HDD: SAMSUNG 990 PRO SSD 2TB PCIe 4.0 M.2
GPU: MSI GeForce RTX 3090 Ti 24GB GDRR6X
PSU: ROG STRIX 1000w
Chassis: corsair airflow 5000d
OS: Windows 11 (This is a change I made yesterday to see if it solved anything prior to that it was on windows 10)
Monitor: Scepter m25 x2
 
update after all the ram switching that I did. Forza just crashed again after only about 5 minutes but it didnt cause my whole pc to crash this time.

Additional update. now that its not crashing my whole pc I can try to see whats happening but with task managers performance tab open it appears nothing is happening when it crashes. my gpu spiked at 17% and that was about a minute before the crash. everything stayed the same. im just not sure what could be cause this to happen to rust, valorant, and forza. those are the only three games ive played in the last month
 
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Ram: CORSAIR VENGEANCE DDR5 RAM 64GB (2x16GB) 5600MHz & (2x16GB) 5200MHz
Why are you mixing and matching sticks of ram on your build? You should be working with sticks that are all identical.

You didn't mention the BIOS version for your motherboard.
 
Ram: CORSAIR VENGEANCE DDR5 RAM 64GB (2x16GB) 5600MHz & (2x16GB) 5200MHz
Why are you mixing and matching sticks of ram on your build? You should be working with sticks that are all identical.

You didn't mention the BIOS version for your motherboard.
so before getting any responses I recalled that the last hardware upgrade I made was from 2 sticks to 4. all though it was fine for a while, a few weeks id say with no issue. so I checked to see what the mhz were on the sticks because I remembered that when I bought the second set I was unsure of if I got 5200 or 5600. so I bought the 5600 and if there was an issue id return my original ones and just upgrade them to 5600 anyways. there were no issues until more recently.
so just before you sent this I took them out and checked and saw that the original was infact 5200 and the MHZ on my motherboard was still set to 5200... so I switched it to 5600 and it made things worse. I couldnt boot properly. I tried just leaving in the 5600 as dual but still no boot so I turned it back to 5200mhz on my mother board and all I have in the dual channels are the 5600mhz. its working now I obviously havent had a chance to test anything yet but I wish I saw these 2 responses first and asked some questions. because now im not sure of the error since im not getting on boot anymore.
I didnt mean to match but as of right now I only have the 2 sticks at 5600mhz in

i dont know which bios version im on
 
Mismatched RAM could certainly be the issue, but you should also try the GPU in another PC if possible, to help diagnose the problem. If it's not the GPU it's another component.

Also, at 64gb of RAM you could probably lose a bit if taking one or two out would make them match. That's a lot of memory and it shouldn't hurt to drop 16gb for testing.

Cheers.