CeJay

I just tried another outlet in my room and my pc just starts up and turns off immediately, I couldn't get it to fully boot. I'm just wondering at this point if I need a new Power Supply.

The overclock isn't applied at all. If I go into my bios and set the overclock, the pc has to restart. And whenever it restarts it boots up for a second and then shuts off, will keep doing this forever unless I restart my power strip.

When I start my PC it starts booting up for a second or two and then powers down, and then restarts and repeats. The lights turn on and the fan spins but it just stays in this cycle of powering on and off. I can get it to boot if I I turn my power strip on and off. After I do this the PC starts normally. This issue doesn't allow me to restart my computer either, so I can't apply my cpu overclock. This problem has only been occurring for the last couple weeks, and started pretty much the same time I moved houses. I don't know why that would change anything. I Have no idea what the problem is. i7 4790k MSI z97 g45 gaming MSI 980 ti Corsair Vengeance Pro ddr3 16gb 8x2 1866 EVGA 750W 90+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply Playing @ 1080p 144hz

The Problem Sometimes when I'm either idle, web browsing, or playing games, my monitors go black and stop receiving a signal from my GPU. My PC doesn't turn off, and the light is still lit on my card, and I think the fans still spin. I never had this problem before I added a second monitor and switched over to DisplayPort, but I made the change a month ago and this problem has only started this week. Things I've tried/know Updating Nvdia driver (378.49) Switching a monitor to DVI after the signal was lost, had to restart PC to get a signal (Makes me think this is a GPU issue) Turned off my overclock (didn't help) Isn't a temperature issue, since this happens when idling and under load Don't think its a power issue, I ran Kombustor for a small amount of time and it didn't lose a signal. (I'll try and run it for a longer time) My build i7 4790k @ 4.7ghz MSI z97 g45 gaming MSI 980 ti (reference cooler) Corsair Vengeance Pro ddr3 16gb 8x2 1866 EVGA 750W 90+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply Asus VG248QE 1080p 144hz Asus VE278Q 1080p 60hz I'm wondering if this is even fixable, and if I should just RMA the card.

My friends and other people online with very similar are very consistently hitting 99%. The problem isn't that I'm getting 90%, its that it is so inconsistent. Most of the time the usage seems to drop during more graphically intense moments.

I should have put that in the OP, I'm on DX11

I have posted several threads on here but I have finally figured out this only really occurs with Frostbite games. My GPU usage in Battlefield 1 never reaches 99%, the highest it gets is the low 90's, and will go anywhere between 70-94%. My FPS is in the 70's and 80's most of the time, which is good, but it isn't the performance I should be getting with my rig, and its more frustrating with a 144hz monitor. My CPU usage ranges from 75-80%. In The Witcher 3 with on ultra with hairworks my GPU is constantly at 99% and I get around 70-80 fps. And Overwatch also gives me 99% usage. I'm not sure why I don't get optimal performance in BF1, but I also had this issue in BF4. Fresh driver install Fresh install of Windows Switching PCI-E ports Swapping out identical cards (did nothing) Made sure Nvidia control panel was set to prefer max performance Made sure power options in windows were set to high performance Updated bios Upscaled resolution in game (people asked me to do this, increased gpu usage but not performance, duh) On current Nvidia drivers (376.09) Turning off overclock (Issue also occurred before I overclocked) Here are my specs: i7 4790k @ 4.7ghz MSI z97 g45 gaming MSI 980 ti Corsair Vengeance Pro ddr3 16gb 8x2 1866 EVGA 750W 90+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply Playing @ 1080p 144hz Edit: I'm using DX11

The issue was occurring before I overclocked, but it seems that overclocking made it worse. I put the gpu and cpu at stock and it's running better. I'm guessing it was the gpu oc, but I'll look at it later. Here are the graphs. No Overclock The gpu usage still fluctuates a lot, though it is hitting higher percentages in the 80's and 90's, just not very consistently. It even dips to 40% which should not be normal. I turned fans to 100 after this screen shot just to make sure it wasn't thermal throttling, and it ran the same.

Actually for some reason it was on, but turning it off didn't do anything.

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Ughh thats the worse possible thing for me. I don't want to go back to 60hz and 1440p 144hz monitors are really expensive. My roommate has the the same build but with a 6660k and 1080p isn't an issue for him. Why is it an issue for me?

DSR didn't seem to do anything so I upped the resolution scale to max in battlefield 1 instead. Heres the graphs. Framerate hung around 50, and gpu usage was at 99.

I have no idea what is wrong. I've been trying to solve this issue since I noticed it in September, I'm ready to just throw my computer out of the window. I posted a similar thread but it seems to be dead and none of the solutions I've tried have worked. My gpu usage tanks while in game, usually hovering around 70%, and sometimes dips to around 50%. This causes my fps to usually max out in the 70's and 80s, and getting as low as 30 in some scenarios. And oddly enough the usage seems to go down when there are more intensive moments that would demand more usage. My gpu temperatures don't get higher than 70c. My cpu hangs around ~75% usage and around 55c. All of this is from playing Battlefield 1. This problem still occurs no matter which game I play. The oddest part in all of this is that my benchmark scores are what you would expect from my build, but the performance in-game is just garbage. In BF1 the performance on low is the same that I get on Ultra. Could this be a bios setting that I'm not aware of? Or a Windows 10 thing? Things I've tried... Fresh driver install Fresh install of Windows Switching PCI-E ports Swapping out identical cards (did nothing) Made sure Nvidia control panel was set to prefer max performance Made sure power options in windows were set to high performance Updated bios Upscaled resolution in game (people asked me to do this, increased gpu usage but not performance, duh) Someone told me on reddit it could be a psu issue, but that doesn't make much since to me since the performance is only affected in game, I could be wrong though. I'm throwing a different psu in later this week to test. The brain trust on the GeForce forums try and tell me it's cpu bottleneck, but with a 4790k, and the fact that I can see people getting almost double my performance with almost the same build, that makes no sense. I think the only things left that could be causing this are.... Faulty cpu (Don't know how my cpu could be bad if my overclock is stable) Faulty motherboard (Don't know how to diagnose, I don't have any booting issues that I'm aware of) Bad ram (ran windows memory diagnostic, had nothing come up. Maybe a compatibility issue with the motherboard?) A setting in Windows 10? A bios setting I haven't found? Here are some afterburner graphs of me playing Battlefield 1, and my Heaven and Fire Strike results. Heaven Fire Strike Battlefield 1 Performance Graphs Lastly, my specs: i7 4790k @ 4.7ghz MSI z97 g45 gaming MSI 980 ti (375.70 drivers) Corsair Vengeance Pro ddr3 16gb 8x2 1866 EVGA 750W 90+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply Playing @ 1080p 144hz Thanks for the help, hopefully I can stop smashing my head against the wall.

Alright I updated my bios and it changed nothing. Not sure what to do now.

I doubt ddr3 is really bottle necking my build like that, that would be a bit insane. I'm updating my bios and I'll check back.