ItsDerekDude

I moved four hours away the other day from my old town. I decided to stream yesterday but my computer was getting somewhere around 22mbps with 99% frame drops in SLOBS. After some speed tests I concluded that my motherboard's on-board network card may be screwed. How did I come to this conclusion? Well after I ran many speed tests on my tower, I plugged the same Cat 6 Ethernet cable into my laptop and was getting speeds (on average) around 370mbps. I downloaded and installed every single motherboard and network card driver/update to no avail. Therefore I concluded that the network card could be defective. My main question is, if I got a PCIe gigabit LAN card bypassing the onboard LAN, could it fix the issue I'm currently experiencing?

It turned out that it was the GPU after all. My suspicions were confirmed when I took it to a computer repair store and they plugged one of their GPU's in and it fixed the problem entirely. I bought it used from Ebay but it was still under RMA warranty so I'm getting a replacement for free next week!

I am going to run Prime95 for good measure.

Memtest86, and a process of elimination of shutting down the system and moving ram out and back in to their designated spots. I have not contacted EVGA yet as I am just now coming to the conclusion that it probably is my GPU. No I am not running AI Suite. I installed RTC as you suggested and have no idea what I am looking at as far as data. Under load the GPU gets up to 55 degrees Celcius. Yes I have taken it out and cleaned it. No I have not plugged the GPU into another spot as the top slot is the only PCIe times 16 slot. I'm fairly confident it's not the socket because if the socket was bad wouldn't it crash for every game? Or crash the system?

Before I begin with my spiel, I would like to preface this troubleshooting topic with my system specifications. CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 2700X CPU Cooler: 360mm Fractal Design Celcius S36 AIO GPU: EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti SC Black Edition MOBO: Gigabyte Aorus Gaming 7 WIFI (4 DIMM slots) RAM: 32GB G.Skill Flare X (4 8GB sticks) SSD: Intel 660p Series 2TB M.2 NVMe SSD HDD: Two 2TB Seagate Barracuda set as sequential drives PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA g3 650 watt 80+ gold certified This has been my very first build and it has been a bit of an acrid experience for me. After many learning experiences I find myself in a dilemma; some of my games keep crashing shortly after loading into a multiplayer game and have yet to resolve this issue. I've downloaded every conceivable driver that is necessary according to the hardware I have. The latest Nvidia driver for my GPU, all Windows 10 updates and drivers, and MOBO drivers. I have been back and forth on various forums reading about the same issues other people have had and testing those methods that solved their issue to no avail. I have also posted on multiple forums with no such luck. This is my first topic I've written fully detailing my experience(s) troubleshooting this computer. Friends have told me it could be the RAM but after conducting many tests via software and process of elimination I can confidently say it cannot be the RAM. I theorize that some of the GPU memory modules could be "failing?" I tested 4 games. Two via the Steam launcher and the other two have their own independent launcher. I started these timers from the time I began the lobby queue for multiplayer gaming. PUBG lasted about 47 seconds before the game freezes and crashes. Realm Royale lasted 36 minutes and 54 seconds with no crashing. I simply just got bored of playing. Escape From Tarkov lasted (also the only game I ran under administrator) approximately 2 minutes and 1 second before crashing. 1 minute and 8 seconds marked the completion of loading into the "raid." And in the case of Minecraft, it's time began when I loaded from the lobby to the server which was about 25 seconds. This game lasted for about as long as I could stand to play it with no crashing for the entire 28 minutes and 47 seconds. Here's why I think it's the GPU. EFT and PUBG are notorious for large budgets of VRAM to run those games, whereas Minecraft and Realm Royale don't. Let me know what y'all think. I also think it should be noted that the two aforementioned games (PUBG and EFT) freeze and crash to the desktop, not crash the system. Thanks in advance!

It's a 4x8GB configuration; all 4 DIMM slots are populated. It's a Gigabyte X470 Aorus Gaming 7 WIFI board by the way. I'm not sure I can use AI Suite.

I have not tried reseating actually and a few minutes after playing. Depends really. But it's not immediate.

Any idea why my games keep crashing?

I reinstalled the OS on my SSD, downloaded every possible update and driver, and I am still having crashing issues. I am completely lost.

Has anyone had trouble with this board in reference to games just crashing? My mobo always displays debug code 24 when everything has loaded and I'm at the desktop, but games keep crashing. I've downloaded every conceivable driver I can think of that is related to my system. What do?

I still encounter this problem after verifying I have all necessary drivers for all of my hardware. Ran stress tests on the CPU with no alarming results; temperatures were fine. What should be my next course of action?

I definitely will. Thanks for y'all's input.

I will also check to be sure I have the latest DirectX driver.

I may be wrong but if it were a defective GPU wouldn't the screen artifact and if it were a defective PSU wouldn't the entire system crash? Good idea on the benchmarking software. I will definitely install some.