Is something in my rig going bad?

thecandyman0838

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Over the last week I have noticed many small issues happening with my computer, mainly game related. I am pretty sure none of these things have happened before the last nvidia driver (387.92).

My Gtx 1070 is running warmer than usual in the high 60s and 70s with vysnc on at 1920x1080 @ 60fps, gpu usage also seems higher. In many games(mainly skyrim and fallout 4) I have as best as I can describe a layer of fuzz or noise that makes distant objects and foliage appear to be moving back and forth. Gta v as lower frames than usual.(I have read others having the same issue with the new driver) In Rust my game would crash after click launch.(Fixed with clean install of nvidia drivers) I removed all nvidia drivers with DDU and did a clean install, and the fuzz problem still persists.
After the clean install, I booted up and my GPU fans were running high and loud, so I lowered them in afterburner.(now normal as far as I can tell.) And today when I booted up my PC I wanted to play some games. Skyrim would close after clicking play in the launcher(no error message) Fallout 4 would stop working as soon as I clicked play, and all other games were locked at 45 fps. I restarted my PC and the games work again.
I tried to record the fuzz with shadowplay, but I think youtube or shadowplay is downgrading it so you can't see it. (I can link them if necessary)
I don't know if it is because of the driver, my gpu failing, ram failing, my monitor going bad, or something else.
Thank you in advance for any information
Sorry if this is the wrong forum for this.
Parts
Asus dual gtx 1070 8gb oc edition (less than a year old)
Intel i5 4440 (almost 4 years old)
12gb ram (almost 4 years old)
intel mobo (almost 4 years old)
seasonic 620w PSU (less than a year old)
windows 7 64 bit
 
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I've had a couple of graphics cards go over the years, usually artifacting, blue screens or shut downs but I did have a cpu that fried that still worked at reduced speed and ran really hot, so its possible I guess. You didn't change the bios in the 1070 or anything like that?

If you've ruled out a driver issue I would just remove the vid card and try the onboard video to see if the computer seems like it runs normally (other than gaming I guess). Sounds like you know what you're doing, just a process of elimination from here. If your computer is fine then the next step would be to test the vid card in another rig. If it still runs slowly with onboard video it would be down to cpu mobo or memory.

BC_Homegrown

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If this seemed to have started happening when you updated last I would try uninstalling the 387.92 and reverting to the older version that worked or possibly a newer beta version. Nvidia has been known to bork things with driver releases occasionally, especially with new drivers on older cards.
 

thecandyman0838

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I reverted to the older driver and it is still happening. Also whenever i have MSI afterburner open to use my custom fan curve, games crash upon start up. Is it possible that it is something other than my GPU failing. It seems that my entire PC is slower. I've been thinking about upgrading everything other than my gpu and psu. Everything else came out of a pre built that I got almost 4 years ago. Thanks
 

BC_Homegrown

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I've had a couple of graphics cards go over the years, usually artifacting, blue screens or shut downs but I did have a cpu that fried that still worked at reduced speed and ran really hot, so its possible I guess. You didn't change the bios in the 1070 or anything like that?

If you've ruled out a driver issue I would just remove the vid card and try the onboard video to see if the computer seems like it runs normally (other than gaming I guess). Sounds like you know what you're doing, just a process of elimination from here. If your computer is fine then the next step would be to test the vid card in another rig. If it still runs slowly with onboard video it would be down to cpu mobo or memory.
 
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