Gray screen crash while gaming and on desktop (R9 280)

[Gandek]

I've had this issue come up for maybe about a year now it doesn't happen often sometimes even months with everything working fine but when I'm playing games like CS:GO my entire display goes grey with white lines and I have no choice but to restart my PC after that its usually fine for a while. It also happens when my brother players Fortnite that I don't play personally.

 

Here is my system its quite old now I built it in 14'

 

I recently cleaned out my PC from any dust as well temps are pretty stable CPU idles at around 25C and doesn't go higher than 51C max even when stress testing with Prime95. For my GPU its idle at 54C and maxes out at 84C when running the heaven benchmark. I can't reproduce the grey screen crash no matter how long I run these stress tests and my PC doesn't shut down either. I have updated all my GPU drivers as well. Perhaps the GPU has been dying for about a year now or the PSU is at fault but I have no other parts to swap and test and even if I did the issue like i said can take months to show itself again while I'm in the middle of a game.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD - FX-8320 3.5 GHz 8-Core Processor	$105.33 @ OutletPC
CPU Cooler	Cooler Master - Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler	$24.89 @ OutletPC
Motherboard	Asus - M5A97 LE R2.0 ATX AM3+ Motherboard
Memory	Crucial - Ballistix Sport 8 GB (2 x 4 GB) DDR3-1600 Memory	$71.89 @ OutletPC
Storage	Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive	$44.89 @ OutletPC
Video Card	Asus - Radeon R9 280 3 GB DirectCU II Video Card
Case	Corsair - 300R ATX Mid Tower Case
Power Supply	Corsair - Builder 600 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply	$89.89 @ OutletPC
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total (before mail-in rebates)	$346.89
	Mail-in rebates	-$10.00
	Total	$336.89
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-03-11 16:03 EDT-0400

 

 

[Gandek]

Oh and I don't run any overclocks whatsoever.

[Gandek]

It just happened again this time i was just getting on my PC and it crashed on desktop with the same gray screen and vertical black lines. I tried looking this issue up nothing helped...

[Gandek]

Welp it just happened 2 more times... No longer a rare occurrence that's for sure. Unfortunately i don't have any other GPUs or PSUs to swap and test.

[magnum00125]

On 3/13/2019 at 5:02 AM, Gandek said:

Welp it just happened 2 more times... No longer a rare occurrence that's for sure. Unfortunately i don't have any other GPUs or PSUs to swap and test.

I have the same graphics card from Jan 2015, and the same thing happened to me. The last grey striped crash I had, i restarted as usual, but this time I had 2 permanent red fragmentet lines through the display before it even booted into windows.

Now it can't boot into windows consistently. The chip is dying or the solder points are.