Is my PSU to blame for flickering/white lines during gaming?

d373rmined

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Hello all. This PC is about a month old from CyberPower. I bought the components individually and had them piece it together. I am pretty new to diagnosing these type of pc issues and need your help. My current issue is that my screen will randomly start to have white, flickering lines across it. The lines vary in timing of onset and intensity. I strictly use this PC for gaming and it will randomly begin to flicker these white lines and sometimes it fixes it self after a few minutes or sometimes it just continues to worsen until the screen be unreadable and will just black out. The PC will still be running but the screen is black and requires a fresh restart to come back on. I've tested with another monitor and that does not seem to be the problem.

Video of it occurring during play of The Division

Youtube Video


Here is the PC info from CyberPower

CAS: CyberPowerPC X-Titan 100 MID-Tower Gaming Case w/ Side-Window Panel
CD: 24X Double Layer Dual Format DVD+-R/+-RW + CD-R/RW Drive (BLACK COLOR)
CD2: None
CPU: Intel® Core™ Processor i7-6700K 4.00GHZ 8MB Intel Smart Cache LGA1151 (Skylake)
CS_FAN: Maximum Airflow with 120mm Case Fans for your selected case
FAN: Deepcool Captain 120 120MM CPU Liquid Cooler (Dual Corsair Air Series AF120 Performance Edition Fan (Push-Pull)
HDD: 250GB Samsung 850 EVO Series SATA-III 6.0Gb/s SSD - 540MB/s Read & 520MB/s Write (Single Drive)
HDD2: 1TB SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 32MB Cache 7200RPM HDD(Single Drive)
MEMORY: 16GB (8GBx2) DDR4/2800MHz Dual Channel Memory (Corsair Vengeance LPX)
MOTHERBOARD: * GIGABYTE GA-Z170X UD5 TH ATX w/ USB 3.1, 3 PCIe x16, 3 PCIe x1, 3 SATA Express, 6 SATA3, 1 Ultra M.2
NETWORK: Onboard Gigabit LAN Network
NOISEREDUCE1: Anti-Vibration Fan Mounts
OS: Windows 10 Home (64-bit Edition)
OVERCLOCK: No Overclocking
POWERSUPPLY: 1,000 Watts - Standard 80 Plus Gold Power Supply
SOUND: HIGH DEFINITION ON-BOARD 7.1 AUDIO
VIDEO: EVGA FTW Edition ACX 2.0 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 ACX 2.0 4GB GDDR5 PCIe 3.0 x16 (Single Card)
WNC: 802.11b/g/n 300Mbps PCI-E Wireless Adapter Network Card

I used HWMonitor to get some data while I had a game running.

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Are those voltage readings off? I'm a newbie when it comes to this but those voltage readings seem weird. Shouldn't a +12v reading be in there?



Thanks for any help you guys can provide.