PC Specs

New components (purchased in late 2025 / early 2026)

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5500X3D (purchased Nov 2025)
• RAM: 32 GB (2x16 GB Kingston Fury Beast DDR4-3200 CL16, purchased Nov 2025)
• GPU: Palit GeForce RTX 5070 12 GB (purchased March 2026)

Older components

• Motherboard: Gigabyte B550M AORUS ELITE rev. 1.0 (purchased in 2021)
• PSU: GameMax GP650 650W 80 Plus Bronze (purchased in 2021)
• SSD: WD Green NVMe 1 TB (purchased in 2022)
• Backup GPU for testing: Zotac RTX 3060 12 GB (purchased in 2022)
• HDD: Old SATA HDD from 2012 (currently disconnected)
• Monitor: ASUS TUF 27" QHD 180 Hz (purchased in 2024)

When the issue started

My PC was infected by malware that stole all my passwords. I performed a clean Windows reinstall, and shortly after that I began experiencing random freezes.

Symptoms

Most of the time:

• The entire system freezes.
• Keyboard and mouse stop responding.
• Win + Ctrl + Shift + B does nothing.
• I have to hold the power button to shut down.
• Event Viewer only shows:
  • Kernel-Power 41
  • Sometimes volmgr (failed to create memory dump)

In one test using my old RTX 3060, the PC went to a black screen and rebooted automatically while still in the Battlefield 6 menu.

Workloads that trigger the issue

• Battlefield 6
• Hades II
• CapCut (editing and exporting videos)

Troubleshooting already performed

• Clean installation of Windows.
• BIOS updated/reflashed.
• Windows Memory Diagnostic: no errors.
• CrystalDiskInfo: SSD health normal.
• Temperatures are normal.
• OCCT tests completed successfully:
  • CPU
  • GPU
  • RAM
  • Power Test
• Disabled BitLocker.
• Removed a USB hub.
• Updated NVIDIA driver.
• Disabled NVIDIA Reflex.
• Forced the GPU slot to PCIe Gen4 (instead of Auto/Gen5).
• Disconnected an old 2012 SATA HDD.

Reports from other RTX 5070 users

I found multiple reports online from RTX 5070 owners experiencing similar random crashes, black screens, and hard freezes.

Some of the workarounds reported by other users include:

• Disabling NVIDIA Reflex.
• Forcing the PCIe slot to Gen4 instead of Auto/Gen5.
• Reinstalling NVIDIA drivers using DDU.
• Disabling overlays.

I have already applied some of these changes, but the freezes still occur intermittently.

Important discovery

I realized that my RTX 5070 was powered using one PCIe cable with a daisy-chain splitter, connected to the adapter included with the card.

From what I’ve read, the recommended setup is:

• Two separate PCIe cables, or
• A modern ATX 3.1 PSU with a native 12V-2x6 cable.

Current status

I temporarily switched back to my RTX 3060 while I wait for a new 850W PSU.

Current hypotheses

1. GameMax GP650 PSU is unstable or insufficient.
2. Using a single daisy-chain PCIe cable caused voltage drop under load.
3. Defective RTX 5070.
4. Motherboard issue.
5. NVIDIA driver issue or RTX 50-series compatibility problem.

Questions

1. Have you seen hard freezes caused by powering a GPU with a daisy-chain PCIe cable?
2. Does passing all OCCT tests significantly reduce the likelihood of a PSU issue?
3. Given that the problem also happened once with my RTX 3060, how likely is the PSU versus the motherboard?
4. What additional tests would you run before requesting an RMA for the RTX 5070?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

My team was on the attack in the first map, and everything was going great. We pushed all the way to the second-to-last sector without taking many losses.

But something changed in the final one. We were completely unable to reach objective A. Every time we got close, we were wiped out. We kept losing battalions…

And then I realized there were several players just sitting back in base playing as recon. Out of 24 players, at least 10 were there. In my squad alone, there were 2.

I got furious and decided to go over to them and keep throwing smoke grenades non-stop to stop them from playing.

And that was it. Rage day. We lost.

Eu cometi o erro mais burro possível pra quem joga pelo PC. Fui baixar um traine (programa que permite usar trapaças como vida infinita e dinheiro e itens ilimitados) pro jogo Hades II, recomendado por um vídeo aleatório do YouTube. Nos comentários tinham umas contas dizendo que funcionava.

Desativei o antivírus e tentei usar o programa várias vezes e nada. Acho que foi no domingo.

Ontem eu recebi vários emails dizendo que alguém tava tentando trocar minha senha em vários sites diferentes.

Também trocaram minha foto e nome no Discord (fui capaz de reverter).

Não deu em nada porque meu celular não foi comprometido e eu tinha autenticação de 2 fatores em tudo.

E é isso, queria compartilhar que fui otário. Tenham um bom dia!