Currently running a powercolour radeon hd 6970 in my build. Whenever i play games, after a few minutes of playing the screen turns into a checkerboard or dots all over randomly or the whole pc will stutter then come back in a minute. Usually after it takes me back to my desktop and the game crashes it will say the display drivers have stop responding and have successfully recovered (or something similar in that manner) I'm between two things, the 6970 is a bust since i got it for free from a friend that couldn't even get the display working, or my power supply cant handle all the power because i know im pushing it a little too much, but even though im running these specs on a 600 watt psu, would that cause the drivers to fail? If it wasnt enough power wouldn't the computer not power up? Im new to pc builds and i could use some help.
Specs:
ASRock intel z77 extreme 4
ivy bridge intel i5 3570k
Powercolour Radeon HD 6970
EVGA 600b 600w psu
Kingston hyperblu x 1x8gb ram
If it is too little wattage, why does the gpu only crash during games, and would too little wattage make the drivers crash? or is something else causing the drivers to crash? (ex. the gpu is broken)
If the PSU is the issue and i know for a fact the gpu isnt an issue ill without a doubt upgrade to a 750w but please help, all answers are appreciated.
Thanks
(Please don't make too much fun of me, like I said im a newbie to pc builds.)
*P.S. I have a radeon 6770 and 6670 and they run perfectly fine with no driver issues.
Specs:
ASRock intel z77 extreme 4
ivy bridge intel i5 3570k
Powercolour Radeon HD 6970
EVGA 600b 600w psu
Kingston hyperblu x 1x8gb ram
If it is too little wattage, why does the gpu only crash during games, and would too little wattage make the drivers crash? or is something else causing the drivers to crash? (ex. the gpu is broken)
If the PSU is the issue and i know for a fact the gpu isnt an issue ill without a doubt upgrade to a 750w but please help, all answers are appreciated.
Thanks
(Please don't make too much fun of me, like I said im a newbie to pc builds.)
*P.S. I have a radeon 6770 and 6670 and they run perfectly fine with no driver issues.