Unstable system..

Jacob2850 · August 10, 2019

So a week ago i bought a GTX 1070 asus dual 8gb GPU. have been playing games since then and not having any issues, now all of the sudden it is restarting whenever CPU or GPU peaks at the same time it seems. ran stress test sepertly and it did go 100% stable and peaked 105% utilization. But when i stress both GPU and CPU at the same time the TDP on my GPU drops to like 70-85% and keeps spiking. is my PSU failing? or is it a mobo issue? And no it is not overheating cpu is running at 50c/122f on max load while GPU is maintaing around 70c/158f.

My rig specs (not oc)

Mobo: gigabyte h310 h2.0

CPU: Intel i5-9400F with corsair H100i ¨pro¨ lol

GPU: Nvidia GTX 1070 asus dual 8gb as mentioned.

RAM: Kingston hyperx, 8gb DDR4, 2 channel.

PSU: Corsair VS 550.

Sorry if there is any mispelling as english is not main langauge. Thanks in advance.

Ciuwas · August 10, 2019

The PSU might not be a problem. I'd recommend seeing if anything is wrong on the driver's side first. Maybe revert the drivers? The 105% utilization seems weird...

Dailyquinn · August 10, 2019

I'd make sure you aren't running out of RAM. You've only got 8 gb, advertising to your post, and it's entirely possible that you have enough stuff running in the background that your computer is trying to dump some of it into the swap file and picking the wrong stuff... Like operating system files, right before they need to be accessed. Shouldn't happen, but we've all seen weirder stuff happen.

Best way to do it would be to disable the swap file, then make sure you've got task manager open and try to duplicate the problem. If it gets over 90%, disable some startup programs and see if that helps.

Assuming you have windows 10, you disable the swap file by going to control panel/system and security/system, then clicking on advanced system settings on the left. Then hit enter (the correct option is pre-selected), click advanced when the new screen pops up, and click "change" on virtual memory.

Then uncheck "automatically manage paging file size for all drives" at the top, and select "no paging file". Click set, click okay, restart your computer.