Issues with GPU (I think)

Ferograd · June 25, 2020

Hello all,

So I've first posted this on Reddit, but nobody even touched the thread there and I am very hopeful that I will get at least something here. I will copy the entire thing here as I beleive it was concise enough, and then add some notes:

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I have recently upgraded my PC from Intel with an old GPU to AMD and as I feared after going AMD, ever since I've had some issues which I am not sure what is the cause of. So I were hoping someone here might be able to help me with that.

My PC specs are as follows:

Motherboard: X570 AORUS Elite

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core

GPU: nVidia RTX 2080 Super

RAM: Team T-Force Delta RGB 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200

PSU: Corsair RM750

Now to get to the bottom of this - I would tell the entire story as I've experienced it so far and hopefully from all the symptoms I've noticed, one of you would be able to sift through the irrelevant stuff and perhaps understand what is going on.

Immediately after assembling all the parts I've ordered - I've turned on the PC but there was no signal to the monitors. The CPU cooler would hum and the ram would shine, the GPU fans would spin (All fans spin) but nothing went to the monitors as they claimed "No signal".

After a lot of fiddling (Removing RAM 1 at a time, trying different RAM slots 1 at a time, unplugging all the cables and re-plugging) eventually the monitors came to life and I've been able to set up a fresh copy of windows.

After installing windows and the GPU and CPU chipset drivers everything started to be A-OK. I could play for hours without any issues (I actually gotta re-test this now), however when I started streaming my stuff for some friends in our Discord server that's when issues began:

At some point of the stream (I were playing PS4 Remote play so all the GPU stuff was made by the PS4 itself) everything started to stutter. I've opened task manager and Discord have been taking 100% GPU with "Very High" power consumption and there was a collumn called "GPU engine" that assured me that "GPU 0 - 3D" (Whatever that means). This thing is there next to "Google Chrome" and "Desktop Window Manager" and a bunch of other stuff at startup

After a short while of everything stuttering the displays went black and then to "No signal" and rebooting is the only option.

This have happened several times now. I have then used DDU and re-installed the nVidia drivers but the issue remains.

After re-installing the drivers however, now when I do the same thing (Streaming on Discord while playing PS4 Remote Play) it is not Discord that takes 100% GPU, but Google Chrome instead.

Yesterday I've just been watching Youtube and the same thing happened by me doing nothing else but watching youtube - The entire PC started to stutter. Mouse would not respond correctly (Would lag behind when I move it or stop entirely, and clicks would not register until much later) and the same thing - Screens went blank and then no signal, and this time even pressing the reset button did nothing - My screens were still complaining that they get no signal.

I am pretty much at a loss here. Short of re-installing the OS I believe I did everything I can? Any help would be appreciated

Now - I've read this forum guidelines and I have yet to update my BIOS - But I don't know if this is a needed step?

I know that looking at task manager does not really help - But that's all I've got. And the pesky "GPU 0 - 3D" still is there even when therea re no issues. So I am stumped.

I've recently started to think that this might be related to PSU being too weak? Here is why:

I've recently contacted nVidia support which have asked me aboput it. He also asked me to disable HW acceleration in both Chrome and Discord - This have solved the issue when I am watching stuff on Youtube, however when streaming me watching stuff in the browser in Discord it is still a problem. It have happened twice already when I needed to reboot my system as the GPU decided to freeze everything and show me no signal again. Discord was working in the background tho and I could still use voice - However sometimes even that stops working.

And the very last oveservation - Today I've decided to try and play "Star Citizen" without buying a starter pack. I've downloaded the client and when runnign it - All screens went black and after a short time the game crashed. It then kept on crashing to desktop as soon as I start it until I've rebooted my PC (Might be SC is just shit like that and nothing to do with GPU, but still leaves me paranoid)

I am yet to install an older GPU driver to see if it's more stable but it takes so much time and I would really hope to do these things under some sort of guideance from somebody that understands where to go with things rather than me just shooting in the dark

Much appreciate it for anybody who can shed some light on this

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