I’ve had my pc for about 7-8 years, I don’t know much about building one so I bought mine pre built.

It’s been great and has never had any issues until recently. I don’t know if this is coincidental or not but my pc started crashing regularly after I updated my windows and graphics drivers about a month ago.

I get a “VIDEO_TDR_FAILURE” stop code and it says “nvlddmkm.sys” is failing.

I have done a bunch of troubleshooting including resetting my pc which did improve things, my pc crashes less frequently but still frequently enough that gaming is basically impossible and beyond frustrating.

I’m thinking that it’s time to upgrade some parts but I am not even sure where to begin. I want to be able to play upcoming games like GTA6 and to play them smoothly. My pc struggles running some games and I really would like to avoid those struggles going forward. Most games I would need to turn my graphics settings super low to be able to play the game at all and I’m hoping to avoid that after upgrading.

My pc is a Cyberpower PC Gamer Xtreme VR GXiVR8060A5 gaming pc.

• Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 3GB
• Intel i5-8400 2.8GHz
• 8GB DDR4
• 120GB SSD
• 1TB HDD

My psu crapped out on me a couple of years ago so I replaced it with a Gamemax 1050W ATX 3.0 & PCIE 5.0 power supply. I also added a 2TB SSD card, and I now have 4 sticks of Corsair vengeance RGB pro DDR4 8GB of ram. I have no idea what I am doing and could use some help with the next steps I should be taking to upgrade my pc.