Hello,
I`m hoping that I`m asking in the right place. This site helped me a lot in the past via google results however on my current problem I can`t find any solution.
A few years ago I bought myself a new pc including the components:
MSI B75A-G43
Intel i7 3770K
8GB DDR3 1600Mhz GSKILL
Sapphire HD7970
Until the point that my HD7970 broke down about a year and a half ago I never had problems with the system. The card just stopped giving any output so I ordered a Sapphire r9 390 nitro. After installing the new card I started to have problems with crashes to desktop when playing games. I figured it was due to not reinstalling windows and figured it would come later. The crashes were not to often. After a while I upgraded to windows10 but the crashes kept happening.
I send the card to the supplyer who tested it and found nothing wrong with it. During that time I used an old Sapphire Toxic HD5850 without problems. It managed to run games like Overwatch or Totalwar Warhammer at lowest settings and never crashed.
In the following months it seemed like the crashes came around a lot more often. Nearly every game that I frequent started to crash. Totalwar Warhammer(within 15minutes), Planet Coaster(within 15minutes), Overwatch (30minutish), Xcom2(30minutish). Once I started playing PUBG crashes became more frequent including memory error(read write).
So, figuring that was due to my GFX card since it started when upgrading I bought a new MSI 1060gtx 6GB. It started promising however crashes just took longer to popup.
By now I`m lost. I`ve tested a lot:
Virus scanner(AVG)
Several reinstalls of W10
Different powersupply
Windows tests of memory
Windows tests of harddiscs
Switched RAM from slot 0+1 to 0+2 to enable dual channel what din`t give any crashes for 2 days until it started crashing several times an hour.
Bios upgrade
Tons of bios changes
Trying different GFX drivers
Trying different chipset drivers(haven`t installed any before started trouble shooting a few weeks ago)
Only thing I haven`t done yet is resetting my BIOS.
It also does not matter if I run a game on lowest or highest details, windowed or fullscreen.
Games always crash to desktop, on rare crashes also windows goes bluescreen but most of the time shows desktop very short.
I do not crash in Windows. Not even when watching multimedia like Netflix.
Only thing I can think of now is: either my memory is bad or 8GB isn`t enough. Especially a game like PUBG is memory hungry. however I usually run nothing but the game during play and the memory seems to cap at 80%. I don`t want to start buying DDR3 memory if I`m not sure since the memory is useless in new systems. I don`t feel the need to upgrade my CPU which should be fine enough. One other thing could be a faulty mainboard. This brings the problem of the complete lack of 1155 socket mainboards out there by now.
I also never did any OC.
Anyone has any idea on what I could test more? Any pointers on how to proceed. I think I spend a LOT of time changing and testing(40-50 hours?). I don`t feel like upgrading since the system should still perform just fine.
Looking forward to any useful advice and I thank in advance!
David
EDIT: when changing so the sapphire r9 390 I also got a new case and powersupply since the supply at the time only had 1x 8pin. The new supply was a Corsair RM70x. At this moment the old supply(620watt) is in the machine to test
I`m hoping that I`m asking in the right place. This site helped me a lot in the past via google results however on my current problem I can`t find any solution.
A few years ago I bought myself a new pc including the components:
MSI B75A-G43
Intel i7 3770K
8GB DDR3 1600Mhz GSKILL
Sapphire HD7970
Until the point that my HD7970 broke down about a year and a half ago I never had problems with the system. The card just stopped giving any output so I ordered a Sapphire r9 390 nitro. After installing the new card I started to have problems with crashes to desktop when playing games. I figured it was due to not reinstalling windows and figured it would come later. The crashes were not to often. After a while I upgraded to windows10 but the crashes kept happening.
I send the card to the supplyer who tested it and found nothing wrong with it. During that time I used an old Sapphire Toxic HD5850 without problems. It managed to run games like Overwatch or Totalwar Warhammer at lowest settings and never crashed.
In the following months it seemed like the crashes came around a lot more often. Nearly every game that I frequent started to crash. Totalwar Warhammer(within 15minutes), Planet Coaster(within 15minutes), Overwatch (30minutish), Xcom2(30minutish). Once I started playing PUBG crashes became more frequent including memory error(read write).
So, figuring that was due to my GFX card since it started when upgrading I bought a new MSI 1060gtx 6GB. It started promising however crashes just took longer to popup.
By now I`m lost. I`ve tested a lot:
Virus scanner(AVG)
Several reinstalls of W10
Different powersupply
Windows tests of memory
Windows tests of harddiscs
Switched RAM from slot 0+1 to 0+2 to enable dual channel what din`t give any crashes for 2 days until it started crashing several times an hour.
Bios upgrade
Tons of bios changes
Trying different GFX drivers
Trying different chipset drivers(haven`t installed any before started trouble shooting a few weeks ago)
Only thing I haven`t done yet is resetting my BIOS.
It also does not matter if I run a game on lowest or highest details, windowed or fullscreen.
Games always crash to desktop, on rare crashes also windows goes bluescreen but most of the time shows desktop very short.
I do not crash in Windows. Not even when watching multimedia like Netflix.
Only thing I can think of now is: either my memory is bad or 8GB isn`t enough. Especially a game like PUBG is memory hungry. however I usually run nothing but the game during play and the memory seems to cap at 80%. I don`t want to start buying DDR3 memory if I`m not sure since the memory is useless in new systems. I don`t feel the need to upgrade my CPU which should be fine enough. One other thing could be a faulty mainboard. This brings the problem of the complete lack of 1155 socket mainboards out there by now.
I also never did any OC.
Anyone has any idea on what I could test more? Any pointers on how to proceed. I think I spend a LOT of time changing and testing(40-50 hours?). I don`t feel like upgrading since the system should still perform just fine.
Looking forward to any useful advice and I thank in advance!
David
EDIT: when changing so the sapphire r9 390 I also got a new case and powersupply since the supply at the time only had 1x 8pin. The new supply was a Corsair RM70x. At this moment the old supply(620watt) is in the machine to test
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