So, in late June I upgraded to a Ryzen 7 1700 w/Asus PRIME X370 Pro and Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4-3000 (from an Ivy Bridge system). I kept using my old GTX 970 because it was doing everything I needed it to do.
When I first ran this system together, everything ran great and I had no issues in either games or productivity software (using Premiere, After Effects, and Handbrake extensively).
Then, a couple weeks ago, I started seeing a significant increase in driver crashes while playing games (as well as stuttering during heavy alpha-effect scenes, like explosions in Doom 2016), and my PC started locking up entirely whenever I tried to do any CUDA-accelerated rendering in Adobe Media Encoder.
I checked my GPU temperatures and I noticed that I was getting temps that are a bit higher than normal - not danger zone, but for example I'm getting 75C when running at only about 60% load (playing Dragon Age II with Vsync on, by no means a demanding workload for a 970). 75C seems more appropriate for a 100% load temperature. I also noticed that one of my GPU fans was starting to rattle, which is surely related.
So obviously there's an issue with my GPU. I have independently tested the CPU, RAM, and HDD the games are on, and they all reported no issues. But I'm paranoid that I might spend hundreds to replace my GPU and then end up with the same problems because the issue was something else.
So essentially the point of this post is to confirm that the problems are, indeed, just a matter of the GPU dying a slow death, and not potentially caused by some other system issue with my new parts. I'm OK if I have to replace my GPU (as it's 3 years old now) but I'd be angry if I have to replace any of my new components.
When I first ran this system together, everything ran great and I had no issues in either games or productivity software (using Premiere, After Effects, and Handbrake extensively).
Then, a couple weeks ago, I started seeing a significant increase in driver crashes while playing games (as well as stuttering during heavy alpha-effect scenes, like explosions in Doom 2016), and my PC started locking up entirely whenever I tried to do any CUDA-accelerated rendering in Adobe Media Encoder.
I checked my GPU temperatures and I noticed that I was getting temps that are a bit higher than normal - not danger zone, but for example I'm getting 75C when running at only about 60% load (playing Dragon Age II with Vsync on, by no means a demanding workload for a 970). 75C seems more appropriate for a 100% load temperature. I also noticed that one of my GPU fans was starting to rattle, which is surely related.
So obviously there's an issue with my GPU. I have independently tested the CPU, RAM, and HDD the games are on, and they all reported no issues. But I'm paranoid that I might spend hundreds to replace my GPU and then end up with the same problems because the issue was something else.
So essentially the point of this post is to confirm that the problems are, indeed, just a matter of the GPU dying a slow death, and not potentially caused by some other system issue with my new parts. I'm OK if I have to replace my GPU (as it's 3 years old now) but I'd be angry if I have to replace any of my new components.
). Thanks for the suggestion though!
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