- Jun 17, 2015
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I bought a Gigabyte G1 Gaming GTX 970 in all the Amazon Prime Day sale hype. It was a warehouse deal, so I knew it was probably used. It ran smoothly for a while, until The Witcher 3 happened.
Before I go on, my system Specs are:
Windows 10/7
i5 4670
Gigabyte G1 GTX 970
8gb Crucial RAM
120GB SSD
600B EVGA Bronze Rated PSU/750w EVGA Gold PSU
The crash in question happens consistently when I play The Witcher 3. A minute and a half into gameplay, the screen goes black, a loud buzzing noise sounds in my headphones, and my PC resets with a Kernel Power error. I googled the issue for 3 days and attempted every single fix available online, with no changes in the frequency or nature of the crash. This includes settings tweaks, driver rollbacks, NVIDIA control panel changes... if you can think of it, I probably tried it.
At first I suspected the PSU was at fault, so I replaced my 600B with a shiny new 750w from EVGA. The crash persisted. Then I realized that I had never updated my motherboard's BIOS after getting it. After the update, the exact same crash still persisted. Next I downgraded from Windows 10 to Windows 7, and 10 is a tad unstable for some gamers right now. Even on a completely different OS, the exact same crash persisted.
I've monitored my GPU and CPU temps, the GPU hovers around 50, sometimes skipping to 60 in game. The CPU is also pretty normal, sitting at 30% on menus and hitting 40-50 in gameplay. GPU usage hovers around 80% with a capped framerate on a mixture between high and medium settings.
Still going to try a totally fresh install of 7, but with how persistent this exact same crash has been across all configurations I doubt it will help. I'm starting to think I just bought a bad GPU. What do you guys think?
Before I go on, my system Specs are:
Windows 10/7
i5 4670
Gigabyte G1 GTX 970
8gb Crucial RAM
120GB SSD
600B EVGA Bronze Rated PSU/750w EVGA Gold PSU
The crash in question happens consistently when I play The Witcher 3. A minute and a half into gameplay, the screen goes black, a loud buzzing noise sounds in my headphones, and my PC resets with a Kernel Power error. I googled the issue for 3 days and attempted every single fix available online, with no changes in the frequency or nature of the crash. This includes settings tweaks, driver rollbacks, NVIDIA control panel changes... if you can think of it, I probably tried it.
At first I suspected the PSU was at fault, so I replaced my 600B with a shiny new 750w from EVGA. The crash persisted. Then I realized that I had never updated my motherboard's BIOS after getting it. After the update, the exact same crash still persisted. Next I downgraded from Windows 10 to Windows 7, and 10 is a tad unstable for some gamers right now. Even on a completely different OS, the exact same crash persisted.
I've monitored my GPU and CPU temps, the GPU hovers around 50, sometimes skipping to 60 in game. The CPU is also pretty normal, sitting at 30% on menus and hitting 40-50 in gameplay. GPU usage hovers around 80% with a capped framerate on a mixture between high and medium settings.
Still going to try a totally fresh install of 7, but with how persistent this exact same crash has been across all configurations I doubt it will help. I'm starting to think I just bought a bad GPU. What do you guys think?
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