u/ItDoBeSnakey

\---SPECS---

32GB RAM

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

Motherboard: MSI MPG X570 Gaming Plus

Windows 10

PSU: Corsair TX 650M

2 monitors

Most notably when it happens I'll lose display of anything running and it'll become a black screen. Audio is still available and has no issues, fans still run, but I can't see anything. This has been going on very infrequently for the last year or two but has been far more recent in the last couple weeks. I thought I was catching a cable with my foot or something earlier on but since it's been a more persistent issue it's clear it's definitely not that. I haven't needed to fiddle with HDMI cords connected or anything so I don't believe that those are the issue either so far.

Something else to note is that sometimes when this occurs and I try to restart the PC, it'll boot up the MSI screen to load the BIOS, but won't take me to the Windows 10 login screen for a couple hours. It mostly sorts itself out overnight but still very clearly an issue

I've had this issue with a few games so far recently, Deadlock, Peak andRV There Yet. Deadlock was on medium settings when this had occured. Lower strain games like (modded) Terraria seemed to work fine without issue however. Once I had cleaned out my case fans it had resolved for a while but eventually persisted again after \~a month

I recently had a powercut before it became more frequent, bear in mind I was actively using the PC at the time. Not too wised up on the hardware side of things but could this have fried the PSU??

\--BENCHMARKS, TESTS AND STUFF--

Just a couple benchmarks/stress tests I did to help diagnose and see if anything is faulty. I haven't overclocked so far so they may be on the lower side

Results from regular Steel Nomad benchmark are here:

\- Score: 3014

\- Average FPS: 30.15 FPS

I tried running 3DMark Time Spy Extreme stress test, but it crashed in the same way at the 12th loop. Obviously got no results here.

Tried the Steel Nomad stress test on 3DMark instead (since it was reccomended) and got a result

\- Frame stability: 93.5%

\- Best loop score: 3073

\- Worst loop score: 2872

All 20 loops were done

Tried the CPU Profile benchmark in 3DMark, got a result

\- Max threads: 5596

\- 16 threads: 6003

\- 8 threads: 4343

\- 4 threads: 2574

\- 2 threads: 1420

\- 1 thread: 721

Two passes in the Windows RAM diagnostic were done, no issues reported.

Any ideas on the cause of this would be a godsend. My line of thinking is there's a fault with the PSU but I'm not too sure.

---SPECS---

32GB RAM

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

Motherboard: MSI MPG X570 Gaming Plus

Windows 10

PSU: Corsair TX 650M

2 monitors

Most notably when it happens I'll lose display of anything running and it'll become a black screen. Audio is still available and has no issues, fans still run, but I can't see anything. This has been going on very infrequently for the last year or two but has been far more recent in the last couple weeks. I thought I was catching a cable with my foot or something earlier on but since it's been a more persistent issue it's clear it's definitely not that. I haven't needed to fiddle with HDMI cords connected or anything so I don't believe that those are the issue either so far.

Something else to note is that sometimes when this occurs and I try to restart the PC, it'll boot up the MSI screen to load the BIOS, but won't take me to the Windows 10 login screen for a couple hours. It mostly sorts itself out overnight but still very clearly an issue

I've had this issue with a few games so far recently, Deadlock, Peak andRV There Yet. Deadlock was on medium settings when this had occured. Lower strain games like (modded) Terraria seemed to work fine without issue however. Once I had cleaned out my PSU fans it had resolved for a while but eventually persisted again after ~a month

I recently had a powercut before it became more frequent, bear in mind I was actively using the PC at the time. Not too wised up on the hardware side of things but could this have fried the PSU??

--BENCHMARKS, TESTS AND STUFF--

Just a couple benchmarks/stress tests I did to help diagnose and see if anything is faulty. I haven't overclocked so far so they may be on the lower side

Results from regular Steel Nomad benchmark are here:

- Score: 3014

- Average FPS: 30.15 FPS

I tried running 3DMark Time Spy Extreme stress test, but it crashed in the same way at the 12th loop. Obviously got no results here.

Tried the Steel Nomad stress test on 3DMark instead (since it was reccomended) and got a result

- Frame stability: 93.5%

- Best loop score: 3073

- Worst loop score: 2872

All 20 loops were done

Tried the CPU Profile benchmark in 3DMark, got a result

- Max threads: 5596

- 16 threads: 6003

- 8 threads: 4343

- 4 threads: 2574

- 2 threads: 1420

- 1 thread: 721

Two passes in the Windows RAM diagnostic were done, no issues reported.

Any ideas on the cause of this would be a godsend. My line of thinking is there's a fault with the PSU but I'm not too sure.