Issues with game driver crashes.

[Geno B]

Hello everyone. First time poster.  I built a PC back in July with a new EVGA 3070 TI XC3 Ultra and have been having non-stop issues with game crashes, 3dMark Timespy crashes, etc.  I initially had a Seasonic Focus GX-850 850w power supply which caused an unbearable coil whine, I have since replaced it with a Corsair RM850x (2021) which fixed the coil whine.  My system is listed below:
 
Processor: AMD Ryzen 5900X
GPU: EVGA 3070 Ti XC3 Ultra
Motherboard: ASUS ROG STRIX B550-F Gaming
RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 32GB (2 x 16GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3600 (PC4 28800) Intel XMP 2.0 Desktop Memory Model F4-3600C16D-32GVKC
PSU: Corsair RM850x (2021 version)
Hard drive: Western Digital WD BLACK SN750 NVMe M.2 2280 1TB PCI-Express 3.0 x4 64-layer 3D NAND Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) WDS100T3X0C
AIO Cooler: ARCTIC COOLING Liquid Freezer II - 240 ACFRE00046A Multi Compatible All-In-One CPU Water Cooler
Monitor: Samsung Odyssey G7 32" (2560x1440)
Case: Fractal Design Meshify 2 Compact Black ATX Flexible High-Airflow Light Tinted Tempered Glass Window Mid Tower Computer Case, FD-C-MES2C-03
 
 
Thinking my graphics card was the issue (I plugged in my old graphics card, an EVGA GTX 570 and games didn't crash, albeit running at a much lower resolution) I RMA'd my original 3070 Ti.  I received the card last week and plugged it into my computer (still with the old Seasonic PSU) and it still crashed with a coil whine. Windows 10 was up to date and so was my Nvidia graphics driver,  clean installs on both and still having issues.  I even went so far as to install Windows 11 (beta) to see if maybe the current built of Windows 10 was causing the issue, but the crashing persisted.   I then went to BestBuy and bought a new PSU (Corsair RM850x) which solved the issue with the coil whine, but my GPU driver still crashes.  My computer never turns off, the game just crashes and exits out.
 
Is anyone having issues with the EVGA 3070 Ti XC3 Ultra?  I ran Memtest86 and found no issues on my RAM.  I also ran sfc /scannow, and ran DISM checkhealth/scanhealth/restorehealth prompts in CMD with no issues.  
 
What bothers me the most is that it appears whenever my GPU is in high stress it crashes.  Please let me know if you guys have any ideas on how to fix my problem.
 
Thank you in advance.

[RONOTHAN##]

5 minutes ago, Geno B said:

clean installs on both and still having issues

I just want to confirm that by this you meant DDU and not just checking "clean install"

 

Other than that I have no idea what could cause this. It doesn't look like there should be anything wrong with the system, especially if you already RMAd the GPU to make sure it's good.

[Geno B]

9 hours ago, RONOTHAN## said:

I just want to confirm that by this you meant DDU and not just checking "clean install"

 

Other than that I have no idea what could cause this. It doesn't look like there should be anything wrong with the system, especially if you already RMAd the GPU to make sure it's good.

I just did a DDU clean install, still the same problem. This is totally discouraging, kinda wish I would have just bought a pre-built instead of building my own...

[RONOTHAN##]

2 minutes ago, Geno B said:

I just did a DDU clean install, still the same problem. This is totally discouraging, kinda wish I would have just bought a pre-built instead of building my own...

Only thing I can really think of is that it's a bad CPU or bad motherboard. Try running Prime95 to see if it can crash your system, and otherwise maybe try contacting ASUS support. 

 

Another thing that I didn't realize until now, have you tried setting the PCIe version to gen3 instead of gen4? it shouldn't cause any performance differences, but some if your motherboard is slightly unstable with gen4 putting it to gen3 would fix that. It's at least worth a shot.

[Geno B]

I ran prime95… No noticeable issues with my cpu. I changed to pcie gen 3 and it didn’t resolve the problem.   I will note that I tried running MSI Afterburners auto over clock feature earlier today just for kicks, it ran for 30 minutes and after it was done it advised that my gpu was too unstable