Potential upgrade time. Few pointers

DoniiY

DoniiY

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Currently have a Z170 Motherboard

CPU i5 6600k
GF CARD - GTX 1070 8GIG
MEMORY - Kingston 16GIG
PSU - 750 Evga

So basically playing Cod warzone and pc shuts down. Went to turn pc on again and nothing. Bought a new psu and still got problems so after a process of elimination I'm sure it's my graphics card. After some thought I'm considering an upgrade but just after some advice.

A) is my Z170 MB knocking on a bit and should I get a newer one. It was released 2015.

B) I've heard next gen cpu 11 is being released which puts me in a predicament. Obviously I want to get my pc running now.

C) if I were to just roll with current pc build and upgrade graphics card for the meantime what is the best bang for my buck bearing in mind a system upgrade is likely in the near future.

Sorry for all the questions but just want to make the right decision, especially if I'm upgrading an older system with the thought of doing a full upgrade soon.

Don
 
Hmmm OK. We'll I think for now I'll roll with current pc as it is. I'm just going to see if my card works in another slot.
If not based on above what graphics card woikd you recommend?
 
Plec said:
Yes, although i would upgrade to the latest BIOS for possible better PCIe compatibility (check motherboard site - it's advisable to have latest BIOS with large upgrades).
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Ahh Ive never upgraded the bios Plec, is it safe to do so?
Would hate further problems to arise.
 
Haha OK I'll need to digest all of what you guys have said. Might take a while but I actually am enjoying trying to solve this.

All this due to a graphics card.

My system spec should have coped with warzone yes?
 
Plec said:
How did you diagnose the GPU as the fault?
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Ok so a brief overview to where I am now.

So I was playing warzone and Pc just shut off.

I thought it was dust with the psu as I have had this once before. I cleared it out went to restart and nothing.

Me being me I just assumed that the PSU had snuffed it and that was what needed replacing. I didn't even think it was anything else.

New PSU arrives plugged it in and still no go. Absolutely powerless. From there I unplugged evrything and just left the psu plugged into the MB to which it started fine.

I then went and plugged other leads into psu leaving just CPU and GPU leads and it worked still. Plugged the cpu in and again was fine which just left the graphics card. Plugged that in and again pc wouldn't start. I unplugged just the graphics and again even with the graphics unplugged it wouldnt start. I switched off psu via switch and left for 20 secs turned back on and with everything in except gfx card it started again.

To go on from this I have also tried to put gfx card in another pci slot and that doesn't work either.

Sorry that's a lot of info Plec but hope you get all that. I want to resolve this, do like an online game. At the same time in an odd way I'm quite getting into this problem solving and hopefully getting it fixed
 
Plec said:
No problem - easy to follow.

Reads and your diagnostics make the 1070 very suspicious - so odds are it's the 1070. Only other viable test would be trying the card in another machine - but i doubt you'll find many eager takers to have a potentially borked card placed into their system.

Are you running the system stably via the CPU's on board gfx and do you have a spare card around that you test in the original PCI Express slot?
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It's been on for ages now with the onboard graphics. Absolutely no problem whatsoever.

If I was to put the card back in though the system just wouldnt boot up. I'll then have to unplug it and then flick the switch on psu.

I have tried the other PCI slot as there's a few on the board but that doesn't work either.

Afraid have not got another card around.
 
EsaT said:
While there's slight chance for some thing between mobo and card causing it, basically 100% of shorted component cases cause those symptoms:
Shorted part triggers PSU's protection, which needs to be cleared by power cycling PSU and when shorted component isn't present/connected to PSU PC powers on normally.
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I actually am struggling to understand EsaT sorry. Are you saying that another component could be causing the issue.
Thanks for input.
 
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Bought the gpu and am now ready to update bios. Got a youtube tutorial on standby and will go for it tomorrow.

Thanks for help Plec and EsaT.

Fingers crossed, all goes OK.
 
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