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ScaryLarry38
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Okay so for the past 4 or 5 days my brothers prebuilt computer that he put a gtx 750 ti in the pc (CPU AMD A8 7600) and games like Wow and Minecraft have been crashing on his computer. Into about 25 minutes of gaming on either of these two games the computer crashes with a buzzing noise, now I have looked into it and some people say the Vram of the GPU is too hot or the GPU isnt getting enough power, but I think it is a heat problem. I reason I say this is because his prebuilt is setup so the graphics card cooler is facing the top of the PSU and I know the PSU throws out a lot of heat and, I need some ideas on how to fix this, we are thinking of buying the HAF 912 with 4 fans to cool the entire thing down. (the GPU crashes even when at 56-60 C when it is supposed to run at 80 C.) We have also tried taking off the panel and blowing a fan directly at the GPU and then it still crashed.

 

TL;DR GPU crashing causing buzzing, I think its a heat issue, the GPU is an inch away from the PSU both fans facing each other, any ideas on how to fix the problem would be greatly appreciated 

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What PSU does he have? Wattage, model, brand ect. 

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Update ALL of your drivers (and Windows). These problems can be the result of driver conflicts. Since your temps are normal, this is more apt to be the problem than overheating.

 

DIY approach to the fan problem - turn the power supply over if you can (some cases can only go one way). If the power supply's fan then ends up next to the case, drill a bunch of air holes in the case for airtflow.

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Open up the power supply and turn it's fan over so that it draws air through the supply and blows it towards the graphics card. It's not the best idea to blow warm PSU air onto the card, but it may be overall cooler.

 

And, if there's no fan at the rear of the case, add one (blowing out). Also, clean the dust out of the rig, and make sure the CPU fan is working.

 

Or another option, get any old cheap case that doesn't put the GPU near the power supply. It doesn't need to be a HAF - an A8 with a 750 doesn't make that much heat.. Just make sure the case accepts your components (ATX/mATX, standard power supply, etc.)

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5 minutes ago, Quaker said:

Update ALL of your drivers (and Windows). These problems can be the result of driver conflicts. Since your temps are normal, this is more apt to be the problem than overheating.

 

DIY approach to the fan problem - turn the power supply over if you can (some cases can only go one way). If the power supply's fan then ends up next to the case, drill a bunch of air holes in the case for airtflow.

- or -

Open up the power supply and turn it's fan over so that it draws air through the supply and blows it towards the graphics card. It's not the best idea to blow warm PSU air onto the card, but it may be overall cooler.

 

And, if there's no fan at the rear of the case, add one (blowing out). Also, clean the dust out of the rig, and make sure the CPU fan is working.

The drivers on the GPU are up to date, not sure about the other ones, but it runs on windows 10 which should be fine right?

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1 minute ago, ScaryLarry38 said:

We replaced the old prebuilt PSU with a 500W Bronze EVGA power supply

The crashing can be software or hardware related so on the software side, try reinstalling drivers and games while hardware side, it can be the GPU failing or a faulty stick of RAM or something :/ 

 

1 minute ago, ScaryLarry38 said:

The drivers on the GPU are up to date

Tried rolling back drivers? Sometimes the most upto date drivers could have bugs and issues in em :P 

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44 minutes ago, ScaryLarry38 said:

The drivers on the GPU are up to date, not sure about the other ones, but it runs on windows 10 which should be fine right?

Make sure you have the proper Windows 10 drivers - audio, LAN, chipset, etc. In many cases, the default drivers in WinX are fine, but not always.

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Have you tried turning the PSU so the fan faces downwards? If his case has a cutout for a PSU outtake, rotate it and try again.

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Thank you all for the responses. In response to luckydog32, the problem is freezing of the screen while gaming and usually a loud buzzing sound. What I tried today was rolling back my GPU's drivers and then reinstalled World of Warcraft, and that seemingly fixed it for over an hour, while before I did that it would crash within 10 minutes. However, it just froze again and I had to force turn off. Not sure if it makes any difference, but at least it didn't make a loud buzzing noise this time. I've noticed, however, that the crashes usually seem to happen when my GPU reaches 60 degrees C (I'm using MSI Afterburner to monitor it while in-game), but I find that strange since the GTX 750 Ti is designed to run much hotter than that. I'm going to try again and see if it crashes again, but any thoughts?

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Just attempted to play, same as before, everything was stable and normal for about an hour or so, and randomly the screen froze, the loud buzzing noise, had to hold the power button. The GPU's temperature hovered at stable 60 degrees C for almost the entire time, so I really doubt overheating is the issue.

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16 hours ago, ScaryLarry38 said:

Just attempted to play, same as before, everything was stable and normal for about an hour or so, and randomly the screen froze, the loud buzzing noise, had to hold the power button. The GPU's temperature hovered at stable 60 degrees C for almost the entire time, so I really doubt overheating is the issue.

Use something like HW monitor or similar to monitor ALL temperatures, you could have something else heating up while the GPU reaches 60 C.

What is the motherboard model (if not custom OEM)?

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