NVIDIA discontinues GeForce GTX 16 GPUs, the end of GTX series
[videocardz.com]
Published: Mar 5th 2024
the GTX series has reached
"End-of-Life"
and the 20's series have been already superseded / obsoleted by 30's series, too
the RTX 20 series are next, soon, to reach "End-of-Life", as 16's and 20's series are based on same architecture .., so get
AT LEAST
a RTX 3080 or better RTX 4070x or 4080x and a fitting CPU (minimum Intel 11th Gen) to be ~for at least~ semi-future proofed
STAY AWAY
from any GIGABYTE GPUs, they are cheap trash and causes failures
!!
USE
MSI, Zotac, ASUS (TUF / ROG) for Desktop GPUs
what can you actually try?
try again to clean install latest NVIDIA GPU drivers, if it still does not work .. upgrade GPU
https://www.nvidia.com/en-eu/drivers/
also a complete full & fresh clean OS install helps ..
and for gaming, WIndows 11 is "generally" better to be used than Windows 10
W10 has fully reached "End-of-Life", too, as well as Windows 11 23H2
You need at least Windows 11 24H2, 25H2 is current, and 26H2 releases in a few months
and additionally to be mentioned, AMD has caused many issues lately, if GPU, CPU and Motherboards .. you will find many topics on Steam as well as from Steam itself
and towards your crashing issues, it sounds like a
"LEVEL 3"
thermal throtteling issue
!!
check your CPU temperatures, at best with
HWiNFO
[www.hwinfo.com]
(sensors only) and run it in background, play a game, check temperatures ..
LEVEL 1:
your CPU overheats and causes thermal throtteling, cores are shutdown briefly to prevent (further) damage which can cause performance loss at the very first stage
LEVEL 2:
your games minimize automatically
LEVEL 3:
crashes running processes and/or applications
LEVEL 4:
is a BSOD (Blue Screen of Death >> Black Screen of Death)
LEVEL 5
:
causes (permanent) hardware damage due to heat and shuts down your machine
LEVEL 6
, and the final stage:
your CPU is literally melting and/or burning
your first steps to probably fix this?
- UPDATE YOUR
'BIOS / UEFI'
FIRMWARE TO LATEST VERSION !!
- INSTALL & USE LATEST CPU & GPU DRIVERS
- CLEAN YOUR MACHINE FROM ANY DUST, CAREFULLY
- CHECK IF ALL WIRES & HARDWARE ARE PLUGGED-IN CORRECTLY
additionally:
your CPU may never exceed 90°C~92°C
your GPU may never exceed 80°C~85°C
you might need to underclock and if possible to undervolt (max -0.025V) your beasty CPU ..
your CPU needs to work harder if you set max settings to your GPU ..
Bro saying the 20s are obsolete. Well I might have made a mistake bc I bought a 2080 super which is better than a 3060. Go learn about Hardware before talking