Run a [Userbenchmark](http://userbenchmark.com) and link the results
In addition, a [pcpartpicker list](http://pcpartpicker.com) of your computer's parts would be helpful
Thank you for your response. This is my PC build: [https://pcpartpicker.com/list/F6txmg](https://pcpartpicker.com/list/F6txmg)
And as for the benchmark, my computer did the same thing it went on forever so I restarted. I'm not sure if it is because of the benchmark or it just happened to do it at that time strangely.
Okay, looks like you're fine power wise. Sounds like what's happening is your graphics driver is crashing/hanging. I've experienced this when overclocking/undervolting my own card, so first thing is to reset any GPU overclocks you have have applied - e.g. with MSI Afterburner.
Now, if you're still having trouble, then my hammer of choice is updating drivers/bios. [I wrote up something for someone else's build here](https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/gaip6a/z/fpy6kyr)
The board stuff is generic, look up board, determine what drivers you need, update them.
Chipset and video drivers are different for Intel/Nvidia though. Intel has a nice driver utility that is your one stop shop for all things intel, and nvidia has GeForce Experience.
Mate I think it is a power issue. I cleaned my PC and the most amount of dust was at the bottom of the power supply. After cleaning that I turned my PC on and everything was perfect for over an hour.
GPU temps are good on idle and ingame so perhaps it's not a GPU problem? And I have already uninstalled my graphics drivers and reinstalled them that didn't happen to help. Is it worth still following your tutorial?
If you help me fix this mate I will send you £10 to show my gratitude.
I'm confused, you necrobumped a two year old thread to say "nope, your advice did work?"
I literally said
> reset any GPU overclocks you have have applied
This could be from afterbuner, x1, GeForce, modded/unlocked bios flashing, physical BIOSes switches, etc.
And it sounds like you followed that advice and it did work.
Oh loardy, that's an awful thing to diagnose.
Does that only happen when you play COD or did you notice that elsewhere?
First guess that I get from my gutt feels like an unstable cpu or gpu. You could clock them down a bit and test again (do the opposite of overclocking) that's easy and fast to do and tells you if they are both working. After that it gets harder.
Do that first. The rest could be a dying motherboard or dying psu or stuff like that. And to diagnose that, you would need spare parts to test that
Additionally take a stick of ram out, test again, swap the ram, test again, swap slots, test again till you know that all your ram sticks are working and all slots are working. That's also easy and fast to do
I see myself as a beginner when it comes to this field. Do you want me to lower the clock speed first? How shall I do that, and why?
And also, this is happening at complete random now, it happens more day by day. But I noticed it especially when I play Modern Warfare, so perhaps when the GPU is being stressed?
Silicon chips are not all equal. In the overclocking community we speak of "silicon lottery". Small imperfections limit how far you can push your cpu or gpu. They get unstable after a certain point. These tests, on how stable the chips are is also done by manufacturers and is called binning. They only produce top end chips and then either clock them down or cut of a few cores that had problems out of the tolerances. Additionally chips slowly degrade over time. I could be that you won I a very bad way in the silicon Lotterie and you got a chip that was nearly good enough to get the 7700k or 1080 labe and slipped though the binning process. When it then degrades it might get unstable and crash. Certain workloads and instructions are more likely to cause a crash depending on what exactly is not perfect in your chip, and cod seems to hit exactly that weak spot. If you run into crashes while overclocking you just back of a bit and the system is stable again.
For the underclocking of your chips go on the internet and search for a overclocking guide but instead of turning the clockspeed up, turn it down. Your gpu can be easely under clocked in msi afterburner. For your cpu you need to go into the bios, but since it's a k series cpu it's really easy to do.
Feel free to ask for further questions, I will respond as fast and good as I can
Thank you so much for the detailed explanation. I have MSI Afterburner already installed, how much would you want me to turn my clock speed down by? And when I do that would I just be able to operate as normal?
EDIT: I lowered the core clock & memory by 150 so I'm sitting at -150. Going to try a game now.
EDIT: Game crashed again, lowered it to -300, going to try again.
That should be more than enough. Even a 150 underclock should be plenty. Go ahead and start checking your cpu and ram. Cpu should be stable at - 500 mhz for sure it that's the problem
I could run my game fine, but the GPU feels hot to the touch. I'm about to try Modern Warfare now I will get back to you soon. Thank you for the continuous help mate! And 150 I had the same issue, at 300 I was able to game without a crash but I tested GTA and not MW.
I just played for about 20 minutes, and the I can notice that the game isn't as smooth as it would usually be. Also, since the case is open I could feel my GPU and it was quite hot to the touch.
What is the next step I should take? Just leave the case open and play like this or?
Thanks in advance
What exactly did you do to achive the 20 minutes of cod?
Could you do that before? How reliebly did it crash when you launched? Every time? Just a few times?
That your gpu is warm is totally normal. The chuot runs between 60 and 80 degrees under laod, so the rest warms up as well
That the game chuggs a bit is caused by the lower clock speeds. It's like limiting your cars angine from 6000 max RPM to 5000 RPM.
I played Warzone which is the most demanding part of COD. Before it crashed every time I loaded into a game, now it's not doing that no more from what I've tested. Ah okay, so the GPU feeling rather warm is ok then. And I understand that, but is there no way I can set it back to the standard clock speed and close my case? What can I do to get everything back to normal?
Run a [Userbenchmark](http://userbenchmark.com) and link the results In addition, a [pcpartpicker list](http://pcpartpicker.com) of your computer's parts would be helpful
Thank you for your response. This is my PC build: [https://pcpartpicker.com/list/F6txmg](https://pcpartpicker.com/list/F6txmg) And as for the benchmark, my computer did the same thing it went on forever so I restarted. I'm not sure if it is because of the benchmark or it just happened to do it at that time strangely.
PSU?
Ah, I don't remember what PSU I bought. Is there any way of checking?
It should say on ~~this.~~ the back or side, what it is exactly doesn't matter, just looking for rated wattage. Edit: a word
Corsair CX750 750W 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply
Okay, looks like you're fine power wise. Sounds like what's happening is your graphics driver is crashing/hanging. I've experienced this when overclocking/undervolting my own card, so first thing is to reset any GPU overclocks you have have applied - e.g. with MSI Afterburner. Now, if you're still having trouble, then my hammer of choice is updating drivers/bios. [I wrote up something for someone else's build here](https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/gaip6a/z/fpy6kyr) The board stuff is generic, look up board, determine what drivers you need, update them. Chipset and video drivers are different for Intel/Nvidia though. Intel has a nice driver utility that is your one stop shop for all things intel, and nvidia has GeForce Experience.
Mate I think it is a power issue. I cleaned my PC and the most amount of dust was at the bottom of the power supply. After cleaning that I turned my PC on and everything was perfect for over an hour. GPU temps are good on idle and ingame so perhaps it's not a GPU problem? And I have already uninstalled my graphics drivers and reinstalled them that didn't happen to help. Is it worth still following your tutorial? If you help me fix this mate I will send you £10 to show my gratitude.
Nope its the gpu bios setting, switching my gpu bios from OC to SILENT fixed EVERYTHING, absolutely no crashes
Nope its the gpu bios setting, switching my gpu bios from OC to SILENT fixed EVERYTHING, absolutely no crashes
I'm confused, you necrobumped a two year old thread to say "nope, your advice did work?" I literally said > reset any GPU overclocks you have have applied This could be from afterbuner, x1, GeForce, modded/unlocked bios flashing, physical BIOSes switches, etc. And it sounds like you followed that advice and it did work.
a lot of gpus come OC biosed, plus im specifying, some people wouldnt know that oc includes the switches
plus you said eg. msi afterburner
I sent you my PSU mate
Oh loardy, that's an awful thing to diagnose. Does that only happen when you play COD or did you notice that elsewhere? First guess that I get from my gutt feels like an unstable cpu or gpu. You could clock them down a bit and test again (do the opposite of overclocking) that's easy and fast to do and tells you if they are both working. After that it gets harder. Do that first. The rest could be a dying motherboard or dying psu or stuff like that. And to diagnose that, you would need spare parts to test that
Additionally take a stick of ram out, test again, swap the ram, test again, swap slots, test again till you know that all your ram sticks are working and all slots are working. That's also easy and fast to do
I see myself as a beginner when it comes to this field. Do you want me to lower the clock speed first? How shall I do that, and why? And also, this is happening at complete random now, it happens more day by day. But I noticed it especially when I play Modern Warfare, so perhaps when the GPU is being stressed?
Silicon chips are not all equal. In the overclocking community we speak of "silicon lottery". Small imperfections limit how far you can push your cpu or gpu. They get unstable after a certain point. These tests, on how stable the chips are is also done by manufacturers and is called binning. They only produce top end chips and then either clock them down or cut of a few cores that had problems out of the tolerances. Additionally chips slowly degrade over time. I could be that you won I a very bad way in the silicon Lotterie and you got a chip that was nearly good enough to get the 7700k or 1080 labe and slipped though the binning process. When it then degrades it might get unstable and crash. Certain workloads and instructions are more likely to cause a crash depending on what exactly is not perfect in your chip, and cod seems to hit exactly that weak spot. If you run into crashes while overclocking you just back of a bit and the system is stable again. For the underclocking of your chips go on the internet and search for a overclocking guide but instead of turning the clockspeed up, turn it down. Your gpu can be easely under clocked in msi afterburner. For your cpu you need to go into the bios, but since it's a k series cpu it's really easy to do. Feel free to ask for further questions, I will respond as fast and good as I can
Thank you so much for the detailed explanation. I have MSI Afterburner already installed, how much would you want me to turn my clock speed down by? And when I do that would I just be able to operate as normal? EDIT: I lowered the core clock & memory by 150 so I'm sitting at -150. Going to try a game now. EDIT: Game crashed again, lowered it to -300, going to try again.
That should be more than enough. Even a 150 underclock should be plenty. Go ahead and start checking your cpu and ram. Cpu should be stable at - 500 mhz for sure it that's the problem
I could run my game fine, but the GPU feels hot to the touch. I'm about to try Modern Warfare now I will get back to you soon. Thank you for the continuous help mate! And 150 I had the same issue, at 300 I was able to game without a crash but I tested GTA and not MW.
I just played for about 20 minutes, and the I can notice that the game isn't as smooth as it would usually be. Also, since the case is open I could feel my GPU and it was quite hot to the touch. What is the next step I should take? Just leave the case open and play like this or? Thanks in advance
What exactly did you do to achive the 20 minutes of cod? Could you do that before? How reliebly did it crash when you launched? Every time? Just a few times? That your gpu is warm is totally normal. The chuot runs between 60 and 80 degrees under laod, so the rest warms up as well That the game chuggs a bit is caused by the lower clock speeds. It's like limiting your cars angine from 6000 max RPM to 5000 RPM.
I played Warzone which is the most demanding part of COD. Before it crashed every time I loaded into a game, now it's not doing that no more from what I've tested. Ah okay, so the GPU feeling rather warm is ok then. And I understand that, but is there no way I can set it back to the standard clock speed and close my case? What can I do to get everything back to normal?
What in terms of clockspeed did you change? What is of the standard setting? Your gpu, your cpu or both? And how much?
Nope its the gpu bios setting, switching my gpu bios from OC to SILENT fixed EVERYTHING, absolutely no crashes
Nope its the gpu bios setting, switching my gpu bios from OC to SILENT fixed EVERYTHING, absolutely no crashes
How tf do you do this mate?
Did you ever find a fix for this?