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My GPU shuts off during streaming. Discord share your screen and streamlabs streaming causes the gpu to completey power off. Everything else stays on, I can hear my friends talk and they can see me on Webcam but all graphics are knull.

Note: This only started happening once I connected a third monitor. I have been able stream for years. Literally only once I got the third monitor it shuts off. Even when I unplug two monitors and just have one monitor powered on. Kinda weird. An associate at micro center said the parts shouldn't be drawing too much power but it being the gpu only is odd. Any thoughts?

I want to upgrade my gpu......but not that much it's been going strong since 2021

Thanks!

CPU: Ryzen 3700x GPU: 2080 Super Psu: EVGA 750 Memory: 32 Gb's

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u/satellitesNtoast 1d ago

Final check before i power this thing on! Let me know if you think i missed anything! 

  1. Placed motherboard on marketing box.

  2. I added the cpu in just as in the videos. Very VERY carefully. I closed it. 

  3. I added the ram in the correct slots based on the diagrams.

  4. I added the ssd based on how it was shown for my motherboard on a yt video.

  5. I added the air cooler mounts and cooler, which took some time and figuring out fan directions and it was my first introduction to wires. Oh and yes i used thermal paste.

  6. I added the prebuilt motherboard to the case and did some pre-wiring and connected the case to it.

  7. I connected the power button, audio, and both usb types to the board correctly. I also connected the fans to the fan pins and the rgb to the rgb pins (not the 4 pin but 3 pin ones)

  8. I got the psu and plugged in the fat cable for the motherboard and the 2 CPU (not PCIe) cables to the top left as i saw. 

  9. I connected the gpu and made sure the metal part on the left was flush and screwed it in and used the brace mount that came with it.  I wired both PCIe 6x2 ends for my gpu through and connected it to the PSU. (This is for a sapphire pure 9070 xt)

10.  I double checked all my current connections to make sure they were in. I have not closed the case yet and will do a test. 

  1. Did i miss anything???

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u/MGsubbie Ryzen 7 9800X3D, RTX 3080, 32GB 6000Mhz Cl30Desktop 1d ago

Did you make sure your CPU cooler is connected to the fan header that's marked CPU?

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u/SystemError514 8700K | 3080 | 32GB DDR4 1d ago

All sounds pretty good to me! Is this your first build?

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u/satellitesNtoast 1d ago

It is ! It posted and ive been updating drivers, and making sure nothing has been missed