GPU dying?

[hornetstinger]

Occasionally my 480 drops down to 640x480 greyscale windows mode, requiring a driver install. PC randomly crashes, sometimes its fine for weeks another it could crash every 5 minutes, a dozen times so I give up and come back to it next week and then it's fine.


Now when PC is switched on I get a black screen and fan stays at 100%. I tried back panel cmos reset just in case it was corrupted bios settings, didn't solve it.

I'm not a heavy gamer, so could pickup used 5600XT and should be noticeable upgrade. I do have a basic office GPU I could try out to see if the rig is stable with that in.

Monitor is freesync 1440p.

If I got a nvidia gpu would freesync work with my monitor? It's samsung 27" 1440p 144hz freesync

 

[hornetstinger]

yeah. tbh it still coped fine, Forza games at 90fps, War Thunder 75fps, Witcher 35-45fps, all 1440p, at high settings. Doom Eternal about 120fps, at high

 

[hornetstinger]

I put a new CMOS battery in a year ago.