RTX 3060TI PC Shutdown Issues

[mdparsons97]

I just got an ASUS DUAL-RTX 3060Ti Mini to upgrade from my ROG STRIX GTX1080. During benchmark testing and games the computer has been shutting off. I have a Corsair 750Watt Power Supply which I read is still good enough for my new card. 

 

Full Specs

AMD Ryzen 9 3900x

ASUS DUAL-RTX 3060TI Mini 8GB (currently using ROG STRIX GTX 1080 due to 3060 instability)

MSI x570 Gaming edge WiFi Motherboard

32GB DDR4 G.Skill Trident Z

1TB Samsung 970 EVO M.2SSD Boot Drive

Seagate Firecuda 4TB Steam Library

Corsair CX750M PSU

 

PSU is less than a year old, same with Ryzen 9 CPU

 

Bad Modular Port on PSU? Bad Motherboard? It not overheating according to MSI Afterburner but I did notice that in just Windows alone there were some odd numbers showing up which I will post photos of what I was getting just idle in Windows. Is there something wrong with the Card? Is there a setting I have to change? I don't dabble in Overclocking so if that's what it was preset to then I have no clue how to change it. I would appreciate any help I can get, I really want to get this to be working properly. If I end up needing to buy a new PSU then so be it but Id rather that be last resort 

[Moonzy]

try switching over to pcie 3.0 in bios, see if that helps

[RONOTHAN##]

The easiest way I know to narrow it down to either the card or the PSU is to lower the power limit (something like 75% should show if this is the case) and see if that eliminates the crashing. If the crashing stops, the card is either drawing too much power from the PSU, thus triggering OCP, or the card is trying to boost too high for what the silicon is able to, and therefore crashing. 

[mdparsons97]

Ok if lowering the PSU Limit like RONOTHAN## says doesn't work then I will try MOONZY's idea of switching to PCI 3.0\

 

This picture I included is what I'm seeing in GPU Tweak just in Windows by itself. Is it normal for the GPU Clock and Memory Clock to spike like that? 

[RONOTHAN##]

6 minutes ago, mdparsons97 said:

Ok if lowering the PSU Limit like RONOTHAN## says doesn't work then I will try MOONZY's idea of switching to PCI 3.0\

 

This picture I included is what I'm seeing in GPU Tweak just in Windows by itself. Is it normal for the GPU Clock and Memory Clock to spike like that? 

It's kinda normal, but only really if the GPU has something to load. I wouldn't be too concerned about it, but keep it in the back of your mind. I'd double check those numbers with Afterburner to see if it's not just GPU Tweak giving false numbers (applications can give false numbers, Task Manager has told me that I have a 40GHz CPU more than once). 

[mdparsons97]

UPDATE:

 

No Crashing as of yet in games, everything seems to be stabilized at this point but now I'm just getting absolutely horrible Frames. Like 30-40 in Vanilla Minecraft 

 

Haven't even attempted to turn RTX on because im afraid of crashing and even worse frames. Any advice on that?

[RONOTHAN##]

1 hour ago, mdparsons97 said:

UPDATE:

 

No Crashing as of yet in games, everything seems to be stabilized at this point but now I'm just getting absolutely horrible Frames. Like 30-40 in Vanilla Minecraft 

 

Haven't even attempted to turn RTX on because im afraid of crashing and even worse frames. Any advice on that?

How far did you lower the power limit, and what the usage for the GPU? Minecraft isn't exactly the best option for testing frame rates, since it can have some weird issues. If you didn't lower the power limit down to say 50% and it happened in every games, I'd say it's probably a driver issue, though a bad card is possible. Try running DDU and reinstall the driver to see if that fixes it.

[mdparsons97]

8 hours ago, RONOTHAN## said:

How far did you lower the power limit, and what the usage for the GPU? Minecraft isn't exactly the best option for testing frame rates, since it can have some weird issues. If you didn't lower the power limit down to say 50% and it happened in every games, I'd say it's probably a driver issue, though a bad card is possible. Try running DDU and reinstall the driver to see if that fixes it.

I lowered it to 75% like you had suggested. GPU usage went significantly down but still spiking a lot of times. What game would you recommend testing on? I do also have Subnautica, Sniper Elite 4 and Shadow of the Tomb Raider (among others) 

[RONOTHAN##]

7 hours ago, mdparsons97 said:

I lowered it to 75% like you had suggested. GPU usage went significantly down but still spiking a lot of times. What game would you recommend testing on? I do also have Subnautica, Sniper Elite 4 and Shadow of the Tomb Raider (among others) 

Shadow of the Tomb raider is one of the better games to test it on, since it's basically a GPU benchmark anyway. 75% shouldn't be giving results in the 40s in Minecraft, but it's probably just Minecraft being Minecraft. If the issue is the same in SOTR, disable PCIe gen 4 as @Moonzy has suggested. If that doesn't fix it, run DDU and reinstall the graphics drivers.