Occasional black screen when using desktop. What could be causing the issue?

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Whatmustido

Whatmustido

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GTX 1050 ti (brand new bought a few days ago off amazon)
My psu is 500+ watts if I remember correctly, I've been monitoring task manager and my gpu doesn't seem to overheat during games or in general.
windows 10



The issue doesn't happen when I'm playing games, anyway. My screen will sometimes go black for a few seconds and then go back on. Sometimes there's "spells" of it happening repeatedly within a short time frame, and then it goes away.
I've tried different cables. I've used 3 different DP cables and an HDMi cable, and one of them was brand new. The problem persists.

I had an rtx 2070 die in this computer a while back. Could something be corrupting my GPUs? Should I just replace my GPU while I still can, or could there be something else going on? I know it could be my PSU, but it doesn't seem to be overheating and I have an all in one liquid cooling system with additional fans that turn on if they're needed. Should I test the psu somehow?

Oh, and I used DDU while the internet was off and all applications were closed to uninstalled my drivers, then I reinstalled my drivers that I downloaded directly from nvidia.
I appreciate any advice. I can't really just take my pc to a shop right now.
 
Lets start here.

Download then run Speccy (free) and post the resultant url for us, details here, this will provide us with information about your computer hardware + any software that you have installed that may explain the present issue/s.

Include the make and model of the Power Supply Unit

To publish a Speccy profile to the Web:

In Speccy, click File, and then click Publish Snapshot.

In the Publish Snapshot dialog box, click Yes to enable Speccy to proceed.

Speccy publishes the profile and displays a second Publish Snapshot. You can open the URL in your default browser, copy it to the clipboard, or close the dialog box.
 
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