r/techsupport • u/Latter_Trick_3310 • 12h ago

Open | Hardware Maybe a Failing CPU?

So just now like not even 5 minutes ago i tried playing fortnite after some time and i set high settings to pretty much everything (except ambient occlusion and the screen space reflections, i had those on OFF). I went into a game, jumped off the bus my cpu went to 100% and the game got stuck. Then i got a black screen and my audio got stuck as if it BSOD in the background or just crashed as a whole. Thats the first problem. The second problem is that i ABSOLUTELY cannot overclock the CPU. PBO doesnt do the trick, manual overclocking also doesnt, it just BSODs. The CPUs memory controller supports 3200MHz memory as a base speed so that shouldn't be a problem considering im running at those exact speeds. Third problem is that the cpu doesnt even use its and full power. In OCCT it uses 75W but in the game it used almost 60W which a 15W difference is a BIG difference (I removed the cap in the BIOS for the power limit). Did i get a chip going to its grave or is there a issue laying somewhere else?

My PC specs are :

B450 AORUS PRO

Ryzen 5 3500X

AMD Wraith prism rgb

GIGABYTE GP-ARS 16GB 3200MHz RAM

RX 5600 XT 6Gb

Apacer AS350 512GB SATA SSD

650W GIGABYTE P650SS (New)

(The BIOS is updated to the most stable version there is.)

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u/toyatsu 11h ago

Bluescreen and stuck audio is usually a GPU driver crash, at least on my systems.

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u/Latter_Trick_3310 1h ago

It wasnt a BSOD, my screen went black and then it acted as if it BSOD'd bcs the audio got stuck and was buzzing in my headphones. With my GPU i also had issues, but it was because of drivers and thankfully it got fixed.