Used asus rx470 crashing

[La Jake]

Hello! 

I recently bought a used asus rx470 gpu, after updating all of the drivers I tried to run CS:GO, with which there shouldn't have been any problems, however it crashed straight after the cut scene. So I tried to run a benchmarking program, but the same thing happened, as soon as it started it crashed. Tried to update drivers once again and after checed if Windows offered any updates, it showed 2 insignificant updates for driver which I downloaded, also changed the power consumtion limit a bit higher and max temperature increased by 20 degrees (to 80). This seemed to fix the issue of crashing, however in CS:GO, the FPS count was way lower then expected (average 60) and after checking the gpu clock and vram speeds, they were 300 (clock speed should have been 900 or so) and 1250 (vram by default should have been 1750). So I tried to change them to the default values which resulted in a crash once again. Now I have lowered everything back to min speeds, but the crashing hasn't stopped. Question is, is there something that I can still do? Test something? Or should I return the card? Thank you in advance!

[Emanbaird]

Hey Jake!

Would you mind posting your system specs?

The fact that it's dropping itself to 300mhz clock speed does raise some questions.

The issue could also be with the CPU or RAM if there is a severe bottleneck with the CPU you would expect to see low GPU utilization. 

The crashing however is definitely not par for the course.

[La Jake]

16 minutes ago, Emanbaird said:

Hey Jake!

Would you mind posting your system specs?

The fact that it's dropping itself to 300mhz clock speed does raise some questions.

The issue could also be with the CPU or RAM if there is a severe bottleneck with the CPU you would expect to see low GPU utilization. 

The crashing however is definitely not par for the course.

The specs are as follows: i5-6600K, 8GB RAM, Z-170 mb, SSD... I previously had  ASUS GTX 980 and everything was working perfectly fine

[Emanbaird]

6 minutes ago, La Jake said:

The specs are as follows: i5-6600K, 8GB RAM, Z-170 mb, SSD... I previously had  ASUS GTX 980 and everything was working perfectly fine

Do you notice really low clocks or high temps on the CPU when you were playing CSGO?

If you were using a 980 then your PSU wouldn't be the problem.

[La Jake]

23 minutes ago, Emanbaird said:

Do you notice really low clocks or high temps on the CPU when you were playing CSGO?

If you were using a 980 then your PSU wouldn't be the problem.

Honestly I dont remeber, for 980 I think it went up to 75 degrees but for GPU not CPU