Graphics Card turning off during Intensive games

John Verdernshmits · Feb 11, 2015

During games like Battlefield 3 my GPU turns off after 10-30mins. The fans are still on (not GPU) but the HDD activity and my USB Wi-Fi adaptor isn't reciving and signal. I think it is something to do with my PSU because I can max out the fan (100mm) and it doesn't make a difference and my GPU on idle is 17 degrees C, and on BF3 Ultra it's at 36-41 degrees C.

My Specs are:
CPU: FX 8350 @4.00GHz
GPU: MSI R7 250
MB: ASUS M5A97 LE R2.0
PSU: EVGA 500W 80+
Case: Galaxy 3 Gaming ATX

Please can you help me, it is driving me insane

Also the GPU turns off quicker when the memory clock is set to 1200

plaintuts · Feb 11, 2015

Restore all default values for the Gpu
Disable gpu overdrive in catalyst

John Verdernshmits · Feb 11, 2015

Sorry dumb question, but how do you restore the values, just making sure I do it right

plaintuts · Feb 11, 2015

Go to catalyst control center
Check if gpu and cpu overdrive is disabled

Or if using msi afterburner, restore defaults

John Verdernshmits · Feb 11, 2015

Cheers mate, will do now

John Verdernshmits · Feb 11, 2015

Nope still doing it, after 4 seconds of gameplay

plaintuts · Feb 11, 2015

Next is try updating gpu drivers

Check msi website for updates

John Verdernshmits · Feb 12, 2015

Apparently it has the Latest drivers installed

plaintuts · Feb 12, 2015

Does the problem occur with a different game?

John Verdernshmits · Feb 12, 2015

It used to do it in Skyrim and Sims 4 but I messed around with the settings and it doesn't do it anymore

John Verdernshmits · Feb 12, 2015

It only does it on BF4 and BF3 (They're the most graphicly intensive games I've got)

plaintuts · Feb 13, 2015

Then the most probable cause is that the gpu is overheating during gameplay

Or, tweak the game settings to make it stable

John Verdernshmits · Feb 13, 2015

I've set the Clock speeds each to 1000, the time it took to turn off increased

plaintuts · Feb 13, 2015

What application do you use to adjust the core and memory clock?

Hekarizblade · Feb 13, 2015

Try re-apply the thermal paste of the GPU and try again

John Verdernshmits · Feb 15, 2015

MSI Afterburner, I will apply thermal paste

John Verdernshmits · Feb 19, 2015

Nope, still the same

Hekarizblade · Feb 19, 2015

John Verdernshmits :

It is overclock right ? it is still same it means the problem is the cooling so make sure your cooling is good and place many fans in the GPU and give me the result
but the temps are good it means it is the GPU is kind of broken i think because i overclock my 630 GT to GPU clock 920Mhz it is 1820Mhz on the shader

John Verdernshmits · Feb 20, 2015

Hekarizblade :

I've reset my GPU's settings to default (Core - 1100 - Mem - 1150) and put the fan on auto and it turns off pretty much at the start. but if set the GPU to Core 1000 and Mem 1000 with the fan on 80% (Whish doesn't make a differnce between 40%-80% temp wise) it can last upto 4 hours

Hekarizblade · Feb 20, 2015

John Verdernshmits :

Hekarizblade :

I've reset my GPU's settings to default (Core - 1100 - Mem - 1150) and put the fan on auto and it turns off pretty much at the start. but if set the GPU to Core 1000 and Mem 1000 with the fan on 80% (Whish doesn't make a differnce between 40%-80% temp wise) it can last upto 4 hours

Try it with core - 1000 Mem 1000 and make the fan auto and run some benchmarking if u have or a game

John Verdernshmits · Feb 21, 2015

Hekarizblade :

John Verdernshmits :

Try it with core - 1000 Mem 1000 and make the fan auto and run some benchmarking if u have or a game

__Yeah it turns off after 5 mins. It will only play it when the fan is on 80%+ but the temps don't go down after 40%

Hekarizblade · Feb 21, 2015

If you put 80%+ the fan will heat faster but it depends the fan but yeah you can put it in 80 and leave the case open so that there is more air coming inside the case make the parts clean like cpu,fan, and HDD and also the main part is the case

Hekarizblade · Feb 21, 2015

Here is a big tip if your problem fixed take all the parts of your pc like removing it from the case
the things all you to remove in the case is
1.Power supply unit (PSU)
2.Motherboard
3.GPU
4.HDD

John Verdernshmits · Feb 25, 2015

I have put it to the Stock speeds according to CCC, I tried it out and it didn't turn off once after (I only tried it for 2 hors or so

John Verdernshmits · Feb 26, 2015

Weird thing is, when I play MW3 it's saying "Your Computer has changed since the lasttime you played MW3"
But I haven't changed anything

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