Black screen occurs with furmark/games.

thegamehhh · 30 Sep 2018

Hi, havent been using my pc for a few months, after the break i just went straight into some games. And here begins my issue: as long as i am playing not-quite heavy gpu stress games like fifa or hearthstone, nothing major happens. But once i start to play some heavier games like the witcher, black screens occurs almost immadiately. Same happens with furmark and occt PSU stress test.
List of what have i done:
got newest drivers (stable and beta)
tested cpu (occt for 2 hours)
memtest passed
changed psu
tested gpu on another pc, nothing happened for like an hour
tried to lower power limit in afterburner, seems like -30 works just fine, at -27 black screen occurs after few mins
Any idea how to get rid of it/what might be responsible? Few pins on cpu socket are sligthly curved (dont know how to spell it in english). Do not own another mobo for testing.

cpu: i5 4690k (stock)
gpu: r9 390
ram: 2x 4gb 2133+2x 4gb 2400
mb: z97-g43
psu: P1-550B-BEFX

thanks for any kind of help!

Mellon Head · 07 Oct 2018

Try setting your GPU fan speed manually to about 65% and try to play a graphics intensive game. My R9 280 does the same thing if I leave the fan at the "Auto" setting. Radeon cards seem to be notorious for this kind of behavior. The automatic fan setting isn't aggressive enough.

I can easily black screen playing Bioshock:Ultimate if I leave the fan at auto, but I can play anything my card is capable of if I set the fan to 65%.