Hey everyone, just got myself a new rig a month ago, haven't been able to game much though. But now that I've got some games installed, I'm noticing some weird stuff. So when I'm playing relatively less intensive games like Dota 2 or World of Warcraft, there's no problems. But when I run Crysis 3 or Call of Duty Ghosts, everything runs perfect at 1080P with AA, highest settings and all that jazz, but randomly (sometimes 10 minutes, sometimes 15, sometimes 5) the screen turns green with vertical lines or just blacks out, but I can hear sounds for a few seconds. Basically the PC doesn't respond and I have to shut it down and start it again, then everything works perfectly well. I suspected the graphics card might be faulty, so ran FurMark and had absolutely no problems or artifacts. Plus, my temps seem pretty fine, the proc hits around 65 degrees Celsius and the card hits about 76 or so. I tried the following: 1. Changed RAM slots. 2. Reseated the graphics card. 3. Changed my power cable. 4. Reinstalled drivers. Here are my PC specs: Intel Core i5-4670 Processor Gigabyte H87M-D3H Motherboard G.Skill RipJawsX [F3-10666CL9S-4GBXL] x2 (8 GB) RAM Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 280X Dual-X 3GB Graphics Card CoolerMaster Hyper TX3 Evo CPU Cooler CoolerMaster Thunder 600W PSU CoolerMaster Elite 431 Plus Case Seagate Barracuda 1TB HDD I suspect the PSU is not able to handle the load, could that be the problem?
I'd have said yes it's the PSU, but then you'd expect it to happen in Furmark too. I take it you don't have any overclocks on anything?
It's most likely the card, possibly due to heat. 65c is kinda toasty for that CPU as well.... See if it runs any better with your side panel removed.
So I changed the PSU and got a CoolerMaster GXII 650W instead, and now could run Crysis 3 for longer (around 1 and a half hour or so) but then the same thing happened. Correction, the CPU hits around 61 degrees, and I haven't overclocked anything.
That what you described in first post looks like a driver issue, TDR. Does it happen with any driver? Did you update your motherboard to latest bios? And is XMP enabled? btw, both PSU's should be enough, just checked your old had 47A on single 12v+ rail, this now has 52A, still plenty.
Either way I hadn't heard too many good things about the Thunder, so I suppose this is a safer bet Yep it kept happening with both the release and beta drivers, and my motherboard has the latest BIOS. Anyway, that's all done, got myself an ASUS DirectCU II GTX 770 2 GB
