My RX480 GPU keeps crashing my whole pc

[tJuggernaut29]

for the past year-ish, if I play games on anything more than very low settings at 1080p my games start stuttering badly or my computer hangs and needs a restart to fix.

with task manager open, I can see that temps are fine, GPU only hits ~70C even with 100% usage. 

When the screen freezes, my monitor says "no display input detected", and if I do things that would make a noise, like moving volume wheel, no feedback. The only way to get out of the freeze is to hit the restart button on my case.

 

I have all that latest windows updates, drivers, and graphics updates, and this has been happening for quite some time across many updates. It seems to be getting worse though.

I am not running any kind of overclock, and have even tried underclocking, but it made no difference. I dont think it is a thermal issue either.

 

Parts list found here

https://pcpartpicker.com/b/vpd6Mp 

 

Thanks for the help :)

[adarw]

try another gpu, or try the 480 on a diffrent pc.

[tJuggernaut29]

2 minutes ago, adarw said:

try another gpu, or try the 480 on a diffrent pc.

I dont have any other GPU's or any other PC's that arent a laptop

[adarw]

1 minute ago, tJuggernaut29 said:

I dont have any other GPU's or any other PC's that arent a laptop

you dont have friends? dont worry no one here does.... /s

 

 

but all seriousness aside do you have any friends with pcs that you can use thier parts for troubleshooting?

[tJuggernaut29]

1 minute ago, adarw said:

you dont have friends? dont worry no one here does.... /s

 

 

but all seriousness aside do you have any friends with pcs that you can use thier parts for troubleshooting?

No, im the only friend with a tower not a laptop 

I also dont know if it is GPU, MOBO, or PSU or how to tell

[adarw]

did that store that troubleshooted your pc charge you anything?

[tJuggernaut29]

1 minute ago, adarw said:

did that store that troubleshooted your pc charge you anything?

the one that helped my when i first built it? No, it was a friend of my dad's. long story short though, that isnt an option anymore lol

[adarw]

Just now, tJuggernaut29 said:

the one that helped my when i first built it? No, it was a friend of my dad's. long story short though, that isnt an option anymore lol

i curiously want to know that long story lol....

 

anyways i guess its the psu, i would buy a psu off of amazon since you can return it. and try it to see if anything happens. but before that i would reinstall windows with new drivers.

[tJuggernaut29]

2 minutes ago, adarw said:

reinstall windows with new drivers.

yeah, no

 

what kind of tests can i do to determine if it is psu or gpu etc?

[tJuggernaut29]

the other thing is oddly enough, i never got XMP to work with my RAM. It would always cause instability. IDK if relevant or not