Frequent crashes while gaming: GPU or PSU to blame?

[maartendc]

Hello all,

 

My PC has recently started crashing under load when gaming. Either blue screen of death and reboot, or crashing the games to desktop. Happens with any game.

 

If I turn the max GPU power down to 70% in MSI Afterburner, the crashes stop, or become much more rare. So I am thinking either the PSU is going bad, and cannot supply enough stable power anymore under 100% load, or the GPU is going bad.

 

Which is more likely to blame in this scenario, PSU or GPU? Sadly I don't have either another PSU or GPU to test at the moment, so I'll have to order either part.

 

My specs:

Ryzen 2700X

Asrock B450 iTX

PSU: Corsair 600W ITX

GPU: EVGA Geforce 980 Ti

RAM: 32 GB DDR4 3200 MHZ.

 

Thanks!

[Trevor87]

I would give everything a every thing good clean and repast the CPU and GPU if it has not been done in a few years. 

Also checked the evga website the recommend 600W or high for that card. 

Also try the card in friends build if they let you. 

[PDifolco]

BSOD or game crashes means it's not the PSU imo, if it were it'll just go black/reboot

What are your GPU temps ?

GTX980 should be close to 10 year old now so it just may be dying

As @Trevor87 mentioned a good cleanup can only help

[Stahlmann]

PSU problems would mean the PC turns off or reboots suddenly. I'd say this is a faulty GPU. Typical diagnostics would be checking temps, using DDU and doing a fresh driver install, repasting for example.

[maartendc]

2 hours ago, PDifolco said:

BSOD or game crashes means it's not the PSU imo, if it were it'll just go black/reboot

What are your GPU temps ?

GTX980 should be close to 10 year old now so it just may be dying

As @Trevor87 mentioned a good cleanup can only help

OK thanks for the feedback. Yeah its probably 8 or 9 years old, so it is not impossible that it is just going bad.

 

The temps are totally normal, dont exceed 75C or so.

1 hour ago, Stahlmann said:

PSU problems would mean the PC turns off or reboots suddenly. I'd say this is a faulty GPU. Typical diagnostics would be checking temps, using DDU and doing a fresh driver install, repasting for example.

Thanks for weighing in. I could try and repaste, but at this point I don't think that will fix it.

 

Guess I'll be shopping for a new GPU..