Hi all,
Hopefully someone here can give me some clues, I am a bit lost at what to do next. I've got an older PC (was high spec 4 years ago ) that has been running fine for games until suddenly today its been crashing almost non stop when playing games. My Specs are:
Asus z170 Pro gaming
6600K (not over clocked for much of its life, but I overclocked it recently to 4.2 and was stable, but then turned off the OC to see if that fixed the above). I've got n EVO 212 cooler.
16GB Ram
980ti
EVGA 850G2
2 SSDs and a M2 SSD
The system has been very stable ever since it was built in 2015 and, until today was very stable.
However today its suddenly starting crashing in games, normally within 5 minutes. When it crashes I can't do anything other than a hard reboot.
I've tried Apex, Fortnite, Elite Dangerous and Kingdom come deliverance. They all crash very quickly. Seems to be the more demanding the title/graphics settings, the quicker it dies.
I've also noticed that the FPS seems to be spiking as well (for example I would be in a game, standing still and it would get 120FPS, then it would drop to 80, then jump up to 120, etc, roughly every 5 seconds). The GPU or CPU does not seem to be over heating and both are under 60C.
I did a full virus scan for the hell of it, and installed the latest nvidia drivers, no joy. I am suspecting the GPU or perhaps the PSU needs replacing, but I was hoping to hold out for ryzen 4 later this year for my next monster PC
Any clues? I was about to check the connections inside the PC, maybe something has come loose.
Hopefully someone here can give me some clues, I am a bit lost at what to do next. I've got an older PC (was high spec 4 years ago ) that has been running fine for games until suddenly today its been crashing almost non stop when playing games. My Specs are:
Asus z170 Pro gaming
6600K (not over clocked for much of its life, but I overclocked it recently to 4.2 and was stable, but then turned off the OC to see if that fixed the above). I've got n EVO 212 cooler.
16GB Ram
980ti
EVGA 850G2
2 SSDs and a M2 SSD
The system has been very stable ever since it was built in 2015 and, until today was very stable.
However today its suddenly starting crashing in games, normally within 5 minutes. When it crashes I can't do anything other than a hard reboot.
I've tried Apex, Fortnite, Elite Dangerous and Kingdom come deliverance. They all crash very quickly. Seems to be the more demanding the title/graphics settings, the quicker it dies.
I've also noticed that the FPS seems to be spiking as well (for example I would be in a game, standing still and it would get 120FPS, then it would drop to 80, then jump up to 120, etc, roughly every 5 seconds). The GPU or CPU does not seem to be over heating and both are under 60C.
I did a full virus scan for the hell of it, and installed the latest nvidia drivers, no joy. I am suspecting the GPU or perhaps the PSU needs replacing, but I was hoping to hold out for ryzen 4 later this year for my next monster PC
Any clues? I was about to check the connections inside the PC, maybe something has come loose.