New Build Crashing Games - Help Required

[Tom1306]

You aren't powering the gpu with a single pci-e power lead are you?

for the first day or two I was, I had ordered braided cables with out the daisy chain loop and was planning to wait on them, but yesterday I decided its an easy one to rule this out and put another cable in, no change (this was pre windows reset)

AC Valhalla is known to be quiet buggy and given the last crash was game only, I will download cold war again today and see what happens,

failing that perhaps I try the beta bios from msi? starting to run out of ideas now

 

[David91]

1. Try Moving the PCI-E cables for the GPU around on your PSU - it may be that you're just pushing one of the "rails" too high (I'm aware of the multi v.s. single PSU rail fallacy, but worth a go anyway).
   
2. If possible try powering the GPU off a separate dedicate PSU (using the ATX 24 pin short trick) to start the PSU without a motherboard.
3. Upgrade the PSU. These cards (3000 series or 6800 series) are exceedingly power hungry and I have learned from experience that pushing a PSU far high results in crashes to desktop and blue screens.

Check my thread - different build I'm aware, but a similar problem with a similar "load to rated PSU wattage" scenario - it may offer some help and/or some troubleshooting next steps - https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/consistent-bsod-in-control-5900x-3090.18911033/

Hopefully you get it resolved soon!

 

[Tom1306]

So last night I managed 4 hours straight play on COD CW with out a single issue,

I will continue to test other games but the only other change than previously mentioned, I moved the power plug directly in to the wall, not via an extension, this combined with the additional GPU cable im seeing 271watt draw on Radeon, previously 230/40,

so i think I perhaps have experienced a list of issues, Ive improved no1 and reset no4 and there seems to be an improvement, 2&3 are somewhat out of my control and intheory will improve in time.

1 - Power supply issue,
2 - Drivers
3 - Game bugs
4 - Windows bugs

But it feels like progress.

 

[Benass]

have you tried FurMark is a lightweight but very intensive graphics card / GPU stress test on Windows platform.

It will stress test your gpu. U can monitor temperatures, and investigate power supply to your gpu.