Hey everyone! My girlfriend's PC was upgraded over the years, and I decided to surprise her by getting an XFX Speedster Merc 310 Radeon RX 7900 XT for her birthday. Her setup includes a Ryzen 9 5900X CPU on an MSI B450 A Pro motherboard with 64GB of Corsair Vengeance LPX RAM, and it used to work fine with a RX 6650 XT.
After swapping the cards, I tried running the TimeSpy Benchmark, but the PC randomly freezes and the screen goes black, leaving me unable to do anything except hard reset the PSU. Sometimes the benchmark runs successfully and scores around 27k points, but most of the time, it crashes.
Initially, I thought my PSU was the issue, so I upgraded to a BeQuiet Pure Power 12 M 1200W, but the freezing continues. I've tested various driver versions, tried overclocking the GPU, and even disabled XMP in the BIOS, which improved stability a bit but made the RAM run slower at 1066 MHz.
I'm considering whether a new motherboard is necessary or if there's a cheaper fix available. Could any of you suggest why this instability is happening, and should I consider RMAing the new graphics card? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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Hey! First things first, have you checked if all your drivers are up to date? Sometimes issues can arise if they’re not. Also, a fresh Windows install might help, but I understand that could be a hassle given her streaming setup!
Yeah, that’s a tough call since setting it all up again would take forever. But the drivers are all the latest versions right now, so I'm hoping it won't come to a fresh install.