PC Freezing/crashing

[Twisters]

So I just built this new PC with I 6600k (cooled by a hyper 212 evo), z170i pro gaming mobo, MSI RX 480 w/ 16 gigs of HyperX ram and a 550 watt PSU. I have all the latest drivers for everything on a fresh install of windows and when i went to test to see how it took on games, it crashes when I enter a game. I can get to the home screen of a game but I can't enter a match and I really can't figure out why. Sometimes but not all the times I can go to task manager but when I try to launch it my PC freezes.

[Energycore]

4 minutes ago, Twisters said:

So I just built this new PC with I 6600k (cooled by a hyper 212 evo), z170i pro gaming mobo, MSI RX 480 w/ 16 gigs of HyperX ram and a 550 watt PSU. I have all the latest drivers for everything on a fresh install of windows and when i went to test to see how it took on games, it crashes when I enter a game. I can get to the home screen of a game but I can't enter a match and I really can't figure out why. Sometimes but not all the times I can go to task manager but when I try to launch it my PC freezes.

Did you overclock your CPU? If so, did you stress test it?

[iLoiter]

I would try testing the game out using only your integrated graphics(remove GPU) and see if it works.

[Twisters]

58 minutes ago, Energycore said:

Did you overclock your CPU? If so, did you stress test it?

Haven't OC'ed yet I'm just making sure everything works

[Twisters]

51 minutes ago, iLoiter said:

I would try testing the game out using only your integrated graphics(remove GPU) and see if it works.

I'll try that tomorrow and I'll let you know how it goes

[Teachmeurway]

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

 

[Twisters]

14 hours ago, iLoiter said:

I would try testing the game out using only your integrated graphics(remove GPU) and see if it works.

Ok so I tried running it on integrated graphics and it seems to work fine now. What could the problem be then?

[iLoiter]

Power supply and or GPU. It could be a case of hardware or software(hopefully this one) failure. Did you overclock anything? I'm going to recommend reinstalling the graphic drivers, and stress test it with heaven with low settings and alternate it to high.

[Twisters]

12 minutes ago, iLoiter said:

Power supply and or GPU. It could be a case of hardware or software(hopefully this one) failure. Did you overclock anything? I'm going to recommend reinstalling the graphic drivers, and stress test it with heaven with low settings and alternate it to high.

Yeah I am beginning to think its a GPU problem because I put it back to see what would happen if I changed the 6 pin cable. And then when I went to go in-game I could hear a whining noise for a seccond and then it crashed. I don't think its the PSU. It's a Corsair CS550M which should be enough. I'm going to try and grab my 970 out of my other computer and see what happens and also test my 480 in that system.

[Twisters]

22 minutes ago, iLoiter said:

Power supply and or GPU. It could be a case of hardware or software(hopefully this one) failure. Did you overclock anything? I'm going to recommend reinstalling the graphic drivers, and stress test it with heaven with low settings and alternate it to high.

Ok I reinstalled the drivers and now it works fine it's all good now. Thank you for the help! I should have tried reinstalling the drivers earlier lmao