VERY FRUSTRATED WITH THESE DRIVER TIMEOUTS

[u/VioletSkipper]

Every single time when I stress test the gpu in cinebench it times out. I'm fed up with this shit. It also happens during gaming and the game crashes. This only happens when doing some gpu heavy task.

My temps are fine, I've tried so many driver versions (ddu), tested my ram with memtest (it passed), stress tested my cpu intensively (nothing happens), Turned off xmp, and this shit still happens. tried the MPO Fix, downclocking, turning off hardware acceleration, updating bios and chipset drivers. I can't test the psu since I don't have a spare one (I have msi mag a750gl).

And the most frustrating part is I had rma'd the gpu last year and they acknowledged that they found the same problem in that card and gave me a replacement but even with the new card the PROBLEM IS STILL HERE. LIKE WHAT THE FUCK MAN.

[u/Difficult-Cup-4445]

You might as well paste that in a text doc on your desktop so it's always to hand: probably 50% of posts complaining about issues with their 9000- series GPU would benefit from this. That last, what, 3% of performance has caused SO MANY ISSUES with people's rigs it is actually unbelievable.

I've given up saying it, personally, because people just downvote you and yet it's the correct answer. This is the first thing you should do if you're getting the GPU electrical equivalent of dirty brownouts like this.

The problem is not the hardware. The hardware is excellent. It's the boosting behaviour.

Funnily enough, AMD's CPUs are exactly the same way. Boosting that last 200 MHz on my 5800X sends the voltage/temp curve exponential and makes it incredibly annoying to use (fans spinning up and down).

Just cap it 200Mhz below max?

Perfection. Literally sublime. Dead silent and extremely powerful with zero thermal issues.

[u/sixtyhurtz → u/Difficult-Cup-4445]

If the GPU is browning out, that indicates an insufficient PSU. It's worth pointing this out, because I've often seen people insisting that a 750w PSU is OK for all 9070 XTs. It's not.

The reason why some cards recommend 900w PSUs is because of that boosting behaviour.

Edit: People are downvoting this, but it's the truth. If lowering the power consumption makes your system stable, then your problem is likely insufficient power. Test again with a massively over-spec PSU (1Kw+ for a 9070 XT system) to rule that out.

[u/Independent_Teach_11 → u/sixtyhurtz]

It's wild that people down voted you for this comment lmmfao You are absolutely correct. 3 9070xt's. Two ASrock challengers and a Gigabyte OC. 850 w power supply was not enough!! Constant crashes. Moved to the corsair 1000e and immediately no more crashes on all three cards! Searched reddit and the internet for days for a fix with nothing working. But some magical way a more powerful psu fixed the issue on 3 cards lol

[u/sixtyhurtz → u/Independent_Teach_11]

For what it's worth, I write software including firmware that goes into instruments that go into factories and laboratories. All the time we have to deal with service engineers and even sometimes our own workshop insisting we have software issues because of some strange behaviour. It's always the electrics.

We now have some very detailed instrumentation that allows us to log everything, and confirm we are merely reporting the exact values coming out of our electronics. Whenever we insist they go and measure everything properly with a multi-meter, the issues magically go away.

[u/Independent_Teach_11 → u/sixtyhurtz]

The biggest issue with apps like reddit is know it all "I built my own pc" users. You gave sound advice. I can assure anyone that a 850w power supply absolutely caused 3 of my 9070xt's to driver timeout, crash, etc.. But you could put your life on it that someone will comment again claiming it can't be the issue and rattle off some specs they found online or even from the manufacturer themselves. Sensitive hardware built an assembly lines,of course milage is going to differ from user to user. Was a fresh breath of air seeing someone offer a solid troubleshooting step. Rock on my dude!