- Jul 7, 2017
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Hello guys, you'll see, right now I am building a budget PC for light gaming and work. However, I live in Venezuela and the situation here is a little bit complicated (google it and you'll see what I am talking about), so buying all the components and ship them here It's gonna take me a while and a lot of effort to bypass the regulations of the government... you know, the usual stuff that you have to do in order to receive the things you bought with your own money.
Anyways, I first bought the CPU and the GPU, an RX 460 with 2G of Vram from Gygabyte:
https://www.amazon.com/Gigabyte-Radeon-Windforce-Graphics-GV-RX460WF2OC-2GD/dp/B01K1JV83C/ref=sr_1_1?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1499479596&sr=1-1&keywords=rx+460
Nonetheless, I first wanted to try the RX 460 on my old PC, a Gateway DX4320 with a Phenom II X6 1035T, 8GB of RAM, 500GB HDD and a 450W PSU (80+ bronze certified from FSP). But the problems started here, after 4 days of happily using the card I started experiencing BSOD and crashes. The first time it happened I was playing Nier Automata, a notorious unoptimized game, after dealing with several troubles (related to the terrible console port itself) and playing for a couple hours, I got BSOD, the message was clear:
TDR Video failure.
I did my research and I realized that I was using the beta drivers for the card (Non WHQL), so I removed them with the 3D Guru tool and installed the latest certified version (17.4.4) . Everything fine, I ran a 2 hours Benchmark of unigine heaven on max settings and nothing Happened even with the GPU under heavy load (max temp registered was 60°C).
However, a day later I saw the screen turning black for a second and going back to normal in no time, but I knew something was off, so a decided to push the GPU to its limit by running Furmark, and after 50 minutes of running the test I close the program and saw visual artifacts on the desktop (green lines and red dots) for a couple seconds, and suddenly they disappeared, but surprise, BSOD. This time the error was:
Kmode_exception_not_handle.
So I checked the RAM and HDD and they are doing fine, no issues found after 2 scans for each one.
Most recently I was playing another game and the BSOD came back, this time with this error:
Kernel security check failure
After that, I decide to crash the system again just for curiosity, so I came back to furmark, leave it for 30 minutes and I saw the visual artifacts again... I was waiting for the crash to happen... but nothing, no blue screen and suddenly they disappeared, the PC kept working fine... and they only appear after I close the program, never during the test... BTW, Temp was 70° after 30 minutes and never went beyond the thermal range for this card.
So, I want some opinions here, is it faulty? Could it be my motherboard (not enough power through the PCI port)? Drivers? what is it?
The thing is, returning the card isn't possible right now, so, I am actually considering just to buy a new one and throw away the RX 460... but that implies that I lost my money :/
Anyways, I would appreciate any insight, advice or tip that you can give me. That's all, thanks in advance.
Anyways, I first bought the CPU and the GPU, an RX 460 with 2G of Vram from Gygabyte:
https://www.amazon.com/Gigabyte-Radeon-Windforce-Graphics-GV-RX460WF2OC-2GD/dp/B01K1JV83C/ref=sr_1_1?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1499479596&sr=1-1&keywords=rx+460
Nonetheless, I first wanted to try the RX 460 on my old PC, a Gateway DX4320 with a Phenom II X6 1035T, 8GB of RAM, 500GB HDD and a 450W PSU (80+ bronze certified from FSP). But the problems started here, after 4 days of happily using the card I started experiencing BSOD and crashes. The first time it happened I was playing Nier Automata, a notorious unoptimized game, after dealing with several troubles (related to the terrible console port itself) and playing for a couple hours, I got BSOD, the message was clear:
TDR Video failure.
I did my research and I realized that I was using the beta drivers for the card (Non WHQL), so I removed them with the 3D Guru tool and installed the latest certified version (17.4.4) . Everything fine, I ran a 2 hours Benchmark of unigine heaven on max settings and nothing Happened even with the GPU under heavy load (max temp registered was 60°C).
However, a day later I saw the screen turning black for a second and going back to normal in no time, but I knew something was off, so a decided to push the GPU to its limit by running Furmark, and after 50 minutes of running the test I close the program and saw visual artifacts on the desktop (green lines and red dots) for a couple seconds, and suddenly they disappeared, but surprise, BSOD. This time the error was:
Kmode_exception_not_handle.
So I checked the RAM and HDD and they are doing fine, no issues found after 2 scans for each one.
Most recently I was playing another game and the BSOD came back, this time with this error:
Kernel security check failure
After that, I decide to crash the system again just for curiosity, so I came back to furmark, leave it for 30 minutes and I saw the visual artifacts again... I was waiting for the crash to happen... but nothing, no blue screen and suddenly they disappeared, the PC kept working fine... and they only appear after I close the program, never during the test... BTW, Temp was 70° after 30 minutes and never went beyond the thermal range for this card.
So, I want some opinions here, is it faulty? Could it be my motherboard (not enough power through the PCI port)? Drivers? what is it?
The thing is, returning the card isn't possible right now, so, I am actually considering just to buy a new one and throw away the RX 460... but that implies that I lost my money :/
Anyways, I would appreciate any insight, advice or tip that you can give me. That's all, thanks in advance.
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