PC crashes while gaming and shows random solid colors

[Alfgreat5]

Hey All!

Recently upgraded my pc specs from 6th gen i3 ddr3 to 12th gen i5 ddr4. Was planning to upgrade my gtx 960 2gb gpu later but in the new system, whenever I use any gpu intensive games or apps, pc randomly crashes and shows solid colors, the pc remains on until i manually reboot it.

I have re checked all software updates and even installed new driver after removing them using DDU.

Is my gpu not compatible or my 550W 80+ bronze PSU at fault here? I am also planning to upgrade to RTX 3060 12 GB version later.

Any help or suggestion would be very helpful

Thanks

[Blasty Blosty]

Does your CPU have integrated graphics? If so, try them in games to see if the issue still appears. If not, the GPU is faulty.

[Alfgreat5]

no, its an i5-12400F, so no integrated graphics

 

[Blasty Blosty]

2 minutes ago, Alfgreat5 said:

no, its an i5-12400F, so no integrated graphics

 

Hmm, I would still expect it to be the GPU

 

Try running a CPU intensive task like Cinebench or Prime 95 to stress test that. Might as well do some memory tests as well to rule that out

[Alfgreat5]

yeah, so Cinebench ran fine
but for Furmark, once I hide and unhide donut, pc just crashes.

[Blasty Blosty]

4 minutes ago, Alfgreat5 said:

yeah, so Cinebench ran fine
but for Furmark, once I hide and unhide donut, pc just crashes.

Yeah probably the GPU then, is it overheating?

[Alfgreat5]

no strangely, 
only when any graphic intensive thing comes up, it just crashes.

[Blasty Blosty]

21 minutes ago, Alfgreat5 said:

no strangely, 
only when any graphic intensive thing comes up, it just crashes.

Weird

 

I mean it is quite old and failure is inevitable

[Alfgreat5]

hmm....I thought so too
Thanks for the help though
much appreciated.