I’m so over this computer upgrade holy shit.
I upgraded from a 3570k to a Ryzen 5 1600X, mostly for better virtualization support and better multicore performance. Since it’s a complete socket and generation change I upgraded my motherboard and RAM at the same time (DDR4 2600Mhz). Graphics card stayed the same, a Sapphire Nitro R9 Fury.
Since building this machine, Unigen Heaven benchmark would consistently lock the whole computer up in almost always the same spot (about 2 minutes after starting the benchmark). When this happens I would lose all video through my Fury (screen completely black) and I can tell the OS is no longer working. There are no windows event logs outside of it complaining about unclean shutdowns.
Running the benchmark on low and uncapped framerate did not seem to trigger it.
Other games (like Grim Dawn) would trigger it after about 15 minutes or so of gametime. I could not get it to happen with 3dmark stress tests for whatever reason.
I found out my Ryzen had the compile segfault bug, so I did an RMA with AMD hoping that would fix it. Got my replacement and verified I no longer have the compile segfault bug and same thing keeps happening.
It’s not thermal, as running the 3dmark stress tests show the CPU never getting above 50C and the GPU never getting above 55C.
I swapped my Fury for the RX 550 I was about to send back, and lo and behold everything works perfectly and I have not (yet) been able to get a hardlock like before. Unfortunately we are talking about a benchmarked FPS difference of 76 vs 21. It’s also a 2Gb card vs 4Gb HBMM.
This seems to me like either a power supply issue (can’t fund all the juice for both ryzen and Fury) or my GPU is now bad.
The power supply is 730W PSU bought back in 2013. I’d be shocked if that’s not enough power for it but the TDP is now 95W compared to the 3570k’s 77W.
The GPU was working perfectly fine in the old build before the swap, but I guess anything can happen in the process of a new build.
At this point I’m at a total loss of what’s going on, nor do I have a good way to diagnose it. I could totally dismantle this build and put back in the 3570k but that’s a royal pain in the ass that I would like to avoid.
Can anyone think of any way to figure out what’s going on?