One last comment, note that with a lot of modern, high end, power supply units, you'll see that 12V rail supports up to the fully rated power. For example an 850W EVGA Gold PSU will support up to the full rated 850W on just the 12V rail. The 12V is used by most components in a modern PC these days, including the GPU. That's not to say that you would be able to run 850 on 12 + 150 on 3/5 and get 1000W. That just means with a high end PSU you aren't artificially capped at say 750W when you buy an 850W psu simply because you have like virtually no components on the 5/3V rail anymore.
Legacy PSUs and cheaper brand PSU's may sell you for example a 650W rated PSU, but the 12V rail will only support say a max load of 575W, plus the 3/5V rails, combo together, then you get to 650W. And the average consumer won't look at the specs sheet or know there is a difference, presumably reflected in the price. Why do I mention this? Because that 650W Bronze Thermaltake PSU caps out at 575W on the 12V rail. So you are kinda short on power for an RTX 3070. Not saying that's your problem, just something to consider.
Specs for the Thermaltake Smart 650W Bronze PSU, see red circle:
You can try running the ePSA built in diagnostics, F12 on startup. Also, checking event viewer to see what type of critical events you're logging at time of the crashes.
If you haven't already, you can update to the most recent drivers direct from Nvidia, and do a clean install to the latest version.
On the 650W bronze PSU, note that Linus Tech Tips rates the Termaltake Smart series (bronze, under 750W) psu's as Tier D (don't buy). Just commenting on the PSU, since you have a really really nice GPU, but that PSU oh my~!
r72019
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Clean install drivers:
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One last comment, note that with a lot of modern, high end, power supply units, you'll see that 12V rail supports up to the fully rated power. For example an 850W EVGA Gold PSU will support up to the full rated 850W on just the 12V rail. The 12V is used by most components in a modern PC these days, including the GPU. That's not to say that you would be able to run 850 on 12 + 150 on 3/5 and get 1000W. That just means with a high end PSU you aren't artificially capped at say 750W when you buy an 850W psu simply because you have like virtually no components on the 5/3V rail anymore.
Legacy PSUs and cheaper brand PSU's may sell you for example a 650W rated PSU, but the 12V rail will only support say a max load of 575W, plus the 3/5V rails, combo together, then you get to 650W. And the average consumer won't look at the specs sheet or know there is a difference, presumably reflected in the price. Why do I mention this? Because that 650W Bronze Thermaltake PSU caps out at 575W on the 12V rail. So you are kinda short on power for an RTX 3070. Not saying that's your problem, just something to consider.
Specs for the Thermaltake Smart 650W Bronze PSU, see red circle:
r72019
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You can try running the ePSA built in diagnostics, F12 on startup. Also, checking event viewer to see what type of critical events you're logging at time of the crashes.
If you haven't already, you can update to the most recent drivers direct from Nvidia, and do a clean install to the latest version.
On the 650W bronze PSU, note that Linus Tech Tips rates the Termaltake Smart series (bronze, under 750W) psu's as Tier D (don't buy). Just commenting on the PSU, since you have a really really nice GPU, but that PSU oh my~!
https://linustechtips.com/topic/1045610-old-psu-tier-list-30-legacy/
kianthemann
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ok I bought an 850w gold gigabyte PSU that does something like 849.7 W on its 12v rail or something like that.