Hardware failure, need help

popsock

popsock

popsock

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Hi everyone, my PC is 3 years old and has started locking up whenever I play a modern 3D game. I have a Geforce 770 and don't have any system issues other than when I stress the card. Older 3D games (Left 4 Dead 2) play fine, for hours with no problems, but anything modern, including running the Heaven benchmark just make the system lock up, forcing a restart. It happens within a second or two of the 3D game kicking in, so I don't think it's a temperature problem as such.

I underclocked the card as much as I could and it helped a bit, but didn't fix the problem really.

Is it that the 770 is just old? Or could it be a power related problem?

I really appreciate your help. Cheers
 
Hi, yes drivers are all up to date, did that yesterday, made no difference. I've cleaned every spec of dust from all components in there. Thanks
 
sounds more power related if it crashes when stressed. Is this when the GPU is showing 100% usage. Use something like MSI Afterburner to check your usage in L4D2 then compare it with when you run Heaven.
 
L4D2 hardly makes it break a sweat it seems 20-40% GPU, and it stays a cool 36 C. Heaven makes it hit 100% and the temp of the card is up around 80 C, with the fans doing overtime.

As the Voltage on GPU Z Is a consistent 1.2v all the time that any 3D app is running, I'm guessing the card is damaged, rather than the PSU. If it was the PSU the voltage would fluctuate no?
 
I just ran a modern game at 1200x800 low quality at it made the card hit 75% GPU load but ran fine. I changed it to high quality, and it hit 99% GPU and locked up.

Only a few weeks ago I was running this game at 1920 at high quality with no issues at all. Something's gone very wrong.
 
"CORSAIR 650W ENTHUSIAST SERIES™ TX650 V2-80 PLUS® BRONZE"

It's been fine for about 3 years, but something's changed clearly. I have had success in fixing this by reducing Power Limit % by the maximum amount in MSI Afterburner. So far so good, it's back to running really well. Clearly I haven't cured the problem, but seem to have gotten around it.
 
popsock said:
"CORSAIR 650W ENTHUSIAST SERIES™ TX650 V2-80 PLUS® BRONZE"

It's been fine for about 3 years, but something's changed clearly. I have had success in fixing this by reducing Power Limit % by the maximum amount in MSI Afterburner. So far so good, it's back to running really well. Clearly I haven't cured the problem, but seem to have gotten around it.
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Yeah I'd change it as soon as, my G2 1000w started killing cards around the 3 year mark. Sounds power related considering what you've spoke about so far.
 
It sounds like your total power draw should be pretty low so that should enable you to get a high quality unit for not too much money.
 
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