Hi. I bought an rx 580 8gb aorus (not the xtreme one) second hand. I paired it with an i5 4690k and started a unigine heaven benchmark on its stock setting (benchmark stock setting, they are set to high i believe, by default) and i only got around 20-30 fps and i shoud have had around 100.. i was like wtf..
So i took the gpu apart, replaced the thermal paste and reassembled it. The temps before didn t pass 70C so idk what happened there. After reassembly, the gpu worked normally but it had a huge amount of coil whine. I downgraded the vBios ( cuz it already had the latest one), same thing, and i got 20 fps again. I thought maybe the psu had the coil whine ( it's an AcBel-never heard of, 80+ bronze 550w ) i put in a gtx 1060 3gb from gigabyte, installed geforce experience and the latest driver. Same coil whine, then i knew it was from the psu. I uninstalled GeForce experience while downloading the adrenaline software. I put the rx 580 back in, start a unigine heaven benchmark and guess what, the screen turned blue, not blue screen of death, a solid blue. I restarted the pc by holding down the power button, cuz that was the only way i could restart it. After that i tool the rx 580 and put it into my personal rig, with a r5 1600x,seasonic 620 m12 full modular 80+ bronze psu. I start unigine heaven benchmark and blue screen again... later i tested my rig with the 3gb gigabyte gtx 1060 i was talking about earlier and it worked ok, but apparently this gpu actually had coil whine ( it was quiet at least) but i got 117 average fps ( SAME SETTINGS as the other pc in unigine)
I put the rx 580 into the i5 rig again, tried to enter the adrenaline software, and i got a black screen this time, FORGOT TO MENTION: after all these blue/black screens, the monitor would show like u turned it on but theren isn t any gpu connected to it WHILE THE AORUS rgb logo on the gpu was flashing without stopping,until i restarted the pc...then the pc would tell me to start automatic troubleshooting or continue to windows.
I said, no problem, i'll flash the other bios.i opened amd/ati flash program, opened it as an administrator, i clicked then YES and BLUE SCREEN.. please help, i reallt hope this is software related.
Mention: When i said screen , it was not BSOD, it was a solid color screen.
HEEEELP PLEASE i tried troubleshooting like 3 hours and no result!!