Hello, thanks in advance for anyone who can help me diagnose my issue.
I recently began to experience repeated crashes on my PC running windows 10. It initially started when using Photoshop, now I am experiencing the same type of crash when having chrome open, or when playing a game on steam. The crashes are all identical, in that its a sudden freeze with any audio starting to stutter repeatedly until I manually shut off the computer.
I built my PC approx 2 years ago using pcpartpicker to make sure all of the hardware was compatible, I had no issues whatsoever with the PC until these crashes recently. Here are my specs:
OS: Windows 10
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10700K CPU @ 3.80GHz 3.79 GHz
RAM: 32GB
GPU: RTX 3080 Ti
I tried running the task manager on a 2nd monitor while playing a game on steam, noticed that there was very low GPU usage (3%) but CPU was at 30%. Not sure if this was normal, I did some more googling which lead me to a bottleneck calculator (https://pc-builds.com/bottleneck-calculator/) which said that my CPU is too weak for my GPU? Could that be causing these crashes? And if so why has this only appeared recently and not since I built the PC. All my drivers seem to be up to date as well.
Let me know if there's anymore relevant info needed and I will try my best to provide it. Thanks!
I recently began to experience repeated crashes on my PC running windows 10. It initially started when using Photoshop, now I am experiencing the same type of crash when having chrome open, or when playing a game on steam. The crashes are all identical, in that its a sudden freeze with any audio starting to stutter repeatedly until I manually shut off the computer.
I built my PC approx 2 years ago using pcpartpicker to make sure all of the hardware was compatible, I had no issues whatsoever with the PC until these crashes recently. Here are my specs:
OS: Windows 10
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10700K CPU @ 3.80GHz 3.79 GHz
RAM: 32GB
GPU: RTX 3080 Ti
I tried running the task manager on a 2nd monitor while playing a game on steam, noticed that there was very low GPU usage (3%) but CPU was at 30%. Not sure if this was normal, I did some more googling which lead me to a bottleneck calculator (https://pc-builds.com/bottleneck-calculator/) which said that my CPU is too weak for my GPU? Could that be causing these crashes? And if so why has this only appeared recently and not since I built the PC. All my drivers seem to be up to date as well.
Let me know if there's anymore relevant info needed and I will try my best to provide it. Thanks!