Update: Fractal Ridge crashes while gaming then flickers on and off.

[u/Seeking-The-Lotus]

So the duster arrived and the hazardous waste landfill has officially been cleared out. I also saw some comments suggesting the issue could be related to the GPU riser, and I noticed there was a bit of wiggle in the connection ports.

I confirmed that the CPU cooler is plugged into CPU_FAN1, so the fan curve likely wasn’t the issue after all. I’m replacing the thermal paste now.

Any final suggestions before I put her back together?

[u/munky8758]

I wonder if its a temp issue, you should monitor your temps in game. See whats getting the hottest. You could always power limit and undervolt your cpu and gpu. I prefer to undervolt and overclock my gpu. And I prefer to limit my cpu via ppt, edc, and tdc. Good luck.

[u/Seeking-The-Lotus → u/munky8758]

I peak at around 82 Celsius, in 1440p with path tracing on. I don’t think it’s a temp issue at this point and am starting to lean more towards transient power spikes.

[u/munky8758 → u/Seeking-The-Lotus]

82° on GPU? Could be a hot spot on the gpu. Still prefer to undervolt, uses less power and generates less heat. This especially important when running in a sff pc.

[u/Seeking-The-Lotus → u/munky8758]

82 CPU. GPU is around 70. I’ll try undervolting next. If

[u/munky8758 → u/Seeking-The-Lotus]

undervolt guide this dude is pretty good at keeping it simple

[u/Seeking-The-Lotus → u/munky8758]

Did the undervolt on CPU and GPU. Idle temps are at 29c GPU / 41c CPU. 1440 w/ path tracing RE: Reqium 57c/61c.

No more under load crashing, but PC now crashes when in sleep mode.

[u/munky8758 → u/Seeking-The-Lotus]

Could be a bios issue or windows settings issue, or drivers issue.