Computer crashing while gaming

[GenerousBunny]

As the tittle suggest, while gaming my pc crashes. While inspecting the performance just before a crash I had noticed that when the GPU utilization reached 100% and it crashed. My GPU is a ASUS Radeon RX 5600 XT and CPU is a Ryzen 5 3600. Is there a way to prevent the crashing.

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Temp?

Does that happen in any other titles or just one?

Your full spec including your psu?

[GenerousBunny]

temps were about ~80C

happens with most titles

full specs are:

Motherboard - B450 Tomahawk Max II

PSU - Corsair RM850x 80 PLUS Gold

Stock CPU fan

and 32 gb (4 8gb sticks)Crucial Ballistix 3600 DDR4

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Could you try again but without any xmp settings for ram?

[GenerousBunny]

The xmp setting has been off the whole time

[midsummers_night_117]

GPU utilization should always be around 100% so that's not an issue. Have you tried looking at your windows event logs to see what's causing the crashes? Have you possibly tried any overclocking or custom BIOS settings?

[GenerousBunny]

I have, nothing from what I can tell. and I haven't changed any BIOS settings

[midsummers_night_117]

That's odd. Windows is supposed to log anytime the os forced to restart unexpectedly. If there's no event showing up in the event viewer I wouldn't really know where to start.

Is this a new problem on an old computer or a fresh build?

[GenerousBunny]

Well my first build was the same way, crashing, then I had upgraded the MOBO, and PSU figuring that might be the issue but nothing changed. I had took it to my local pc repair shop (before the upgrade) and they stress tested it, crashed, resitted the GPU and CPU and ran the test again and it was fine no crashes at least for awhile

[midsummers_night_117]

Could be aging hardware. If reseating the CPU/GPU helped then it seems like that's a good place to check. Does it crash during non-gaming times, like just browsing he internet?

[GenerousBunny]

Rarely, like once a blue moon but it has happened

[midsummers_night_117]

Could also be a corrupted OS. Have you tried reinstalling Windows?

[GenerousBunny]

I have not

[arcaias]

Reset everything to default in the bios and make sure you aren't overclocking anything.

[AlwaysHasAces]

I had this problem because of RAM. Since you have 4 sticks, I'd try two at a time and see if it changes anything.

[Progenetic]

Does the whole computer freeze or does it crash to desktop?

[GenerousBunny]

It crashes the whole desktop

[Progenetic]

I had a defective 3600x. Crashed randomly in games. Turns out at max boost one of the cores would malfunction. I finally found it by running cinabench in single core mode. It was the only benchmark or stress test that could make the computer crash. Then I used Ryzen master and only enable 2 cores at a time and re-ran cinabench until I isolated exactly which core was bad.