u/Electronic-Clerk6735

Just looking for a sanity check. I have been practice testing with TutorialDojo as I've seen plenty of times that they are pretty good, are the questions on the actual exam similar, just worded differently to those found on TD? I have also done the practice exam on Microsoft Learn. From Microsoft Learn and Tutorial Dojo I have been passing pretty consistently, just want to make sure that's all I would need. I was blind sided by az-900 when I took it but at that point I only used Microsoft Learn. (still passed)

I've also been using Whizlab for the labs, I don't know if I need to do that or if that's overkill, but also why I bring this up to ask.

So again to reiterate because I am rambling, is passing TD and Microsoft Learn practice exam good indicators of the test? And should I focus on doing some labs over at Whizlab?

After some testing between titles like Doom the Dark Ages, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, something has happened to my desktop. Previously I was able to play these titles at maxed out settings no issue. Currently, I can’t even play them longer than 10 minutes. It just completely shuts off the computer. I’ve changed a few settings around and changed kernels a few times but nothing is working.

For reference I have Fedora 44 running:
AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
32 Gb of ram
AMD Radeon 9070XT

Running that on a B560M Aorus elite motherboard and that is supplied by a seasonic focus 850W power supply.

I’ve tried the CachyOS kernel and the normal Kernel 7.0.4, but I come to you now because I know these games use to play fine. Currently there doesn’t seem to be a temp issue, the computer doesn’t get hot at all, I do see 99% GPU utilization which I know isn’t good, but I just find it odd that before I can do this and now I can’t. I mean I would run 1440p 120fps with FSR on, now I’m lucky if that lasts 5 minutes of gameplay before my computer just completely shuts down, which I’ve never even seen before. If I crank it down to medium and 60fps it seems to be okay, but what happened? Anyone have any ideas? Anything I should change with the wattage of my GPU? Thought about doing that, but surely it can’t be that…can it?