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Currently running PSU: CoolerMaster MWE 650W V2 80+ Gold Fully Modular

 

Hey, i've been dealing with PC crashes without complete shutdowns and just blackscreens with no control that force me to manually shut it down on power button.

 

I've been running an R9 270X, then R9 290, R9 290X, 2x RX 580s and now an MSI GamingX Duo RTX 3060Ti and almost all have been crashing with the same issue, which kind of assured me it's not the GPU as it's not possible that ALL GPUs crashed the exact same way...Random blackscreen while gaming( nothing while browsing the web or watching videos), most of the time the sound buzzes, and theres no control over the system anymore. PC doesn't shut down, so i have to force shutdown while holding the power button.
 

Before i concluded it's my GPU once again, i wanted to investigate a little bit more, and i think i've found the culprit.

 

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While on desktop, with HWInfo turned on with 4 live graphs and NO load, voltage on GPU is dropping down to 11.485v.
 
The situation is that the RTX 3060Ti CANNOT run any big stress tests immediately. It will instantly result in a crash about 0.5-1 second later after the test starts. The only one that it will pass is the 3D Adaptive which lets me start from 5% load and go up to 100% in increments. That one passes without any issues all day long. Even when i run this test and it doesn't crash for about an hour, i tried running the 100% load 3D stress test, and it passes it sometimes, but only if i stress the GPU for a while and immediately start running the heavy test. Power test always fails 1 second later... Any other 100% tests fail immediately and i have even tried to start at 5% but same issue. Perhaps the type of load is different even if it's the same amount of %load...

VRAM test passes any day.

Anyway...in a sense, "Cold" starts fail easily. The 1st picture shows the drop in voltage right after the test start and the bottom one shows the voltage at 100% on the GPU.

These voltages are coming from sensors on the GPU itself, i have tested the PSU with multimeter on itself with a pin short but doesn't show changes in voltage and is pretty flat on all 8pins and the 24pin(It's within tolerance ~ 11.9). I haven't tested the rails with a multimeter while stress testing due certain physical constraints, but i will try that soon, aswell.

Can anyone conclude that this is a PSU issue or is there any other chance the GPU is at fault even though last 5 AMD gpus were crashing the same way? I have used a GT210 for some time and i have it for troubleshooting purpouses and it never crashed, but it also doesn't use PSU cables, only pulls power from the PCIe slot. I did have this same PSU while using all previous GPUs and i have it for around close to 5 years. Are there any other possible tests i can do that will help me in resolving this? Thanks!
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What does event viewer say?

 

Any other parts you can switch to test with?

Ryzen 7 5700X3D (-30 CO all-core) w/ cheap 6-pipe cooler - Gigabyte AX370-Gaming 5 - LPX 2x16GB 3600C18 2R - EVGA RTX 3070 8G XC3 PX1 - Patriot VPN110 1TB -  MSI A750GL - and a dogshit Sharkoon ATX case

Asus ROG G531GT : i7-9750H (-200 Vcore) - GTX 1650M +700mem - Samsung 16+8GB 2666 - 1920x1080@145Hz (172Hz) IPS panel

 

i5-6400 @4.3GHz (160 bclk) w/ Assassin King 120SE - Z170M-Plus - G.Skill 2x8GB 1R + Micron 16GB 2R @3000C16 - Biostar RX 570 8G w/ MSI Armor cooler

 

i5-4690K + Z97-AR + Panram Blue DDR3 2800 2x4GB Lightsaber Blue

iMac 21.5" (late 2011) : i5-2400S, HD 6750M 512MB - Samsung 4x4GB PC3-1333 - WT200 512G SSD (High Sierra) - 1920x1080@60 LCD

Acer Z5610 "Theatre" Core 2 Quad Q9550 - 2x2GB PC3-1333 (Samsung) - 1920x1080@60Hz Touch LCD - great internal speakers

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Time for a new, stronger PSU. 11.2-11.4 is when mine would dump too.

 

RIP

AMD R9 9900X | Thermalright Aqua Elite 360 V3, 6x TL-B12

Asus Strix X670E-F | 32GB Lexar Ares @ 3000 30-36-36-68

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