My Gpu overheats? and screen goes black

mrwhiteout12 · Mar 2, 2018

First off my gpu is gigabyte r9 270x , Sooo when I play heavy games like Gta V,fortnite my screen goes black but my still pc still works , because when I talk on discord I still hear the sound of it , I downloaded MSI afterburner and set my fan-speed to 80 and sometimes 90 and its gets loud and when the screen gets black it goes quiet suddenly,sometimes the screen goes black the first 10-20mins of playing sometimes it goes after 3-4 hours I thought It was overheating but my temperatures dont go that high , the highest they got is 70 °C,firstly I didnt know why my screen was going black but after I downloaded msi afterburner and set the fanspeed to 90 and when it went black and the fanspeed went to quiet I knew it was the gpu,What should I do?

RARRAF · Mar 2, 2018

well the screen is going black because the PSU is not powerful enough and drawing too many watts buy a better PSU

mrwhiteout12 · Mar 2, 2018

isnt 600w enough?

grimfox · Mar 2, 2018

Depends on the quality as well. If it's a cheap low quality PSU it may still have issues with powering the GPU under heavy load.

mrwhiteout12 · Mar 2, 2018

its delux atx dlp-600w tp p8

RARRAF · Mar 2, 2018

cannot find that model so how old is it ??

mrwhiteout12 · Mar 2, 2018

I got the pc second hand but I think its fairly old

natx808 · Mar 2, 2018

If you suspect PSU can't handle, try lowering your power target to 80% and try gaming and see if it craps out again.

Does it stay black screen until you power cycle?

Do you get a message saying "display driver stopped responding" after the system recovers from the black screen? That would potentially indicate faulty graphics card.

Have you tried a dislay driver uninstaller (DDU) clean uninstall and then reinstall latest AMD drivers?

mrwhiteout12 · Mar 4, 2018

Hey,when the screen goes black I need to restard the pc there isnt any message about the display driver stopping

mrwhiteout12 · Mar 4, 2018

I set my power limit, core clock and memory clock to lower settings and if it goes black again I'll update!

mrwhiteout12 · Mar 4, 2018

So I played fortnite and GTA V both with the settings being lowered and it still turned off black :/

natx808 · Mar 5, 2018

check event log.. do you ever see a display driver stopped responding error? If so i would suspect faulty gpu.

mrwhiteout12 · Mar 12, 2018

How do I view the event log?

Simon Horne · Jul 17, 2018

Think it’s your gpu s thermal paste . After use for sometime and especially when gaming the paste dries out and the thermal transfer of heat is impaired of stopped altogether!! It’s easy to replace yourself, just unscrew the fans and heatsink disconnect the fan plug from main gpu board and gently pull the heatsink away from gpu chip do this carefully . Then clean both gpu and heatsink surfaces with industrial alcohol or you can by kits artic cooling do a v good on and is cheap then apply new paste same as used on your cpu artic mx 4 is very good but there are many good ones . Then reassemble place heatsink on the gpu with paste applied then replace the screws ones over the gpu first . Don’t forget to plug the fans into the gpu board refix all screws . Job done . And I bet you will find that cures you problem

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