Hey guys, there was recently a severe electrical storm, and my PC has been acting weird since then. While I am playing games, such as Ghost Recon Breakpoint, or even Tomb Raider (2013), my PC will shut down, and the CPU diagnostic light will light up on my MOBO. I have stress tested each of my components and my PC worked fine. It only crashes while gaming. I assume the issue lies within the motherboard as each of the parts have to communicate with each other more while gaming than running stress tests. But I also have reason to suspect that it is my GPU (weird artifacts in games, monitors randomly loosing connection, and poor visual quality in games (my friend plays the same games, and the graphics are much better despite being on the same settings)). Note the system is at stock settings.
My specs:
PCPartPicker Part List
Type
Item
Price
CPU
AMD Ryzen 5 2600X 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor
$184.69 @ Amazon
Motherboard
MSI B450M PRO-VDH PLUS Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard
$123.81 @ Amazon
Memory
Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory
$76.98 @ Amazon
Storage
Kingston SSDNow UV400 120 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
$39.75 @ Amazon
Storage
ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro 512 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive
$78.98 @ Amazon
Storage
Seagate Barracuda 1 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
$37.15 @ Amazon
Video Card
Sapphire Radeon RX 590 8 GB PULSE Video Card
Case
Cougar MX330-G ATX Mid Tower Case
$51.98 @ Newegg
Power Supply
BitFenix Formula Gold 550 W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply
Operating System
Microsoft Windows 10 Pro OEM 64-bit
$139.99 @ Other World Computing
Monitor
Acer SA230 BI 23.0" 1920x1080 60 Hz Monitor
$159.99 @ Best Buy
Keyboard
Cooler Master Devastator 3 Wired Gaming Keyboard With Optical Mouse
$39.99 @ Amazon
Custom
Dell UltraSharp 2007WFP - 20.1" 1680x1050 resolution w/ USB hub
Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
Total
$933.31
Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-04-17 21:08 EDT-0400
I will also include the diagnostic light code and an artifact.
What do you guys think is the issue with my PC, and what part should I replace it with?