I tried running any model on my 1070 and it instantly crashes my old tower, probably time to get off windows and run linux on it.

Understated how much of a boon for Linux that AI development has been.

There isn’t any benefit to running a windows machine.

Au contraire, I run models on WSL and my desktop reliably wakes up from sleep. Best of both worlds.

Sounds like a hardware issue, though NVIDIA driver issues can't be ruled out, they're much rarer these days