5600 XT & power limit stability/instability

[InfiniteNoise]

For the past few months I've been experiencing random freezing/crashing while on idle or while doing some light browsing and I'd have to restart my PC to get it running again, couple of months ago, I decided to lower the power limit to -20%, which got rid of the crashes, and on a number of occasions I would set the power limit back to the default (0%) to see how it goes, and sure enough it would eventually freeze/crash after a while.

I'm just trying to figure out why and hopefully find a fix, I've ruled out pretty much everything else (RAM, PSU, motherboard, etc), trying different drivers, trying various power states options, I can understand if this was happening while playing games, but I don't understand why it's happening when the GPU isn't being used that heavily.

Anyone else experienced something like this? If so, have you managed to resolve this and how?

Edit: I realized that the GPU is running with old BIOS version with 1500mhz memory clock instead of 1750mhz, I've flashed it to an updated version, dunno if this will fix the issue but let's see.

 

[ASMB]

I had this happen and resolved it by changing the timings on the system memory.

 

[InfiniteNoise]

Hmm, guess I'll have to check that out next time it crashes, but since updating the BIOS, I haven't run into any crashing yet, so hopefully it's all good now.

 

[ASMB]

Pleased to hear that your problem seems to be sorted, if it does happen again I use the Corsair vengeance ddr4 3200 settings of 16-18-18-36, it works stable for me with 4 sticks of 8GB

 

[eeii]

Don’t forget chipset drivers from amd web site.

 

[InfiniteNoise]

Yeah, everything's updated, from what I've gathered, drivers aren't the issue here, it's the power limit at default (0%) while on idle or light browsing, as long as I set it to -20%, there's no issue, which sounds like the power spikes are tripping PSU's over current protection, but as I mentioned in the OP, as long as I'm gaming or do anything else that keeps the GPU loaded when at default or higher power limit, it doesn't crash.

At least I've narrowed down the cause of the issue, hopefully I'll be able to find a fix that doesn't involve keeping the power limit at -20% (not that it's an issue, games run fine, it actually works out better for me, with the weather getting warmer and energy bills going up).