Long time troubleshooter, first time poster. I have a somewhat old desktop (~5 years old) And have recently been encountering issues with it where, when under load, the video driver crashes. Furmark crashes in about a minute. My first inquiry was the drivers. A new NVIDIA driver update came out recently so I updated it only for furmark to crash again. Next I checked if it was a GPU issue —maybe it's dying — so I pulled it out of my PC, and plugged it in to my boyfriend's. I let Furmark run for a full 10 minutes on his PC and encountered no crashes. I feel pretty confident that I've eliminated it as the cause of my issues. I'm not really sure where to point my finger next. My intuition says it might be a PSU issue but I'm not sure if that's the best place to start. I also have realized that my PSU's fan is pointed downwards, directly into my carpet, and has been that way since I installed it all those years ago — perhaps the seed of my problems. Here's a full list of all my hardware: https://pcpartpicker.com/user/Verbanderbog/saved/#view=txQj4D
Any help on where to go from here would be appreciated.
Any help on where to go from here would be appreciated.