My rig was: Intel Xeon E3-1285 Asus Maximus V Gene 16GB RAM ASUS GeForce GTX 960 STRIX DCUII OC with a HP 1920 x 1200 monitor that was pretty good in 20101) But I was getting graphics crashes (that would turn off the monitor and require a reboot) which weren't helped by driver reinstalls, but were helped by taking the card out. I then bought a GT1030 passive card to keep things running (I have a use for the card later). Most of my gaming is World of Tanks at the moment which isn't the most demanding, but I might want to play something current some day. I looked at RTX 2060 as the absolute max, but not sure if it's justified. Also concerned to find a card that doesn't get upset to run passive when not worked. Any advice. I'm a bit out of the loop on GPU stuff these days.
Do you think your PSU could have been the problem? As looking at the age of the machine and the nature of the crash it feeels like a PSU issue...
Failing that, was for the new GPU launches in a few weeksa for prices to settle would be my recomendation
