Computer shutting down whilst gaming

chrismelling

chrismelling

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My computer has started shutting down and restarting whilst playing battlefield.

It can happen within 5 minutes of running the game or it can be after a few hours.

The CPU temp's would sit around 70ish whilst gaming so I expected it was this causing the issue and bought a noctua D15. The noctua keeps the temps around 50 whilst gaming but the shutting down and restarting is still happening.

What could be causing this issue? The graphics card doesn't appear to be hot either, the fans are barely coming on whilst gaming which would indicate it's not having any issues.

These are my average readings whilst gaming, is there anything unusual?

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Using a Corsair CX 750W.

I'm only using a 4.2Ghz overclock now I'm using the D15 but this shutting down was happening previously when no overclock was running.
 
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How old is that PSU ? Do you have a spare you could swap in ?
Does device manager show any yellow warnings against any of your hardware ?
 
Phage said:
How old is that PSU ? Do you have a spare you could swap in ?
Does device manager show any yellow warnings against any of your hardware ?
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PSU is less than a year old and the only other PSU I have doest have 2 PCI-e connectors so it cannot be used.

Device manager is showing nothing usual.

PaulyD said:
Anything in event viewer to show what caused it?
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What kinda errors would I be looking for?
 
I can only notice the GTX 780 temperature at that fan speed
72 degrees with 88% fan speed on 0.912V
It doesn't add up
You should not be able to reach that temperature with that voltage
Let alone with the fan blowing that hard
 
I've got the exact same issue. system resets while gaming event id 41 kernel-power.
Unigine Valley caused mine to reset within seconds, games could take longer. Priming on the other hand did not make it reset. It caused my GPU (780Ti) to develop coil which is currently RMA. However because I'm without a GPU I'm using the processor's igpu and i can't get the system reset. So you could try without the GPU. I still think it could be a PSU issue and begrudgingly have ordered another one. I will test when i receive my GPU when it comes back. I don't think that both our system's doing this is a coincidence and i gotta funny feeling its somehow windows 8.1 lol. Please let me know if you find the problem to your system.

edit: just looked at the recent posts and there are a few other people with the same problem. WTF. And the only things that i see our system have in common is win 8.1 and possibly some drivers. Ummmmmmm.
 
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About the GTX 780
It runs at 1.162v at full load
your voltage is 0.912V
That voltage should sustain only about 600 Mhz on the Gpu that is not sufficient to warm
up the card to about 60 degrees but it runs at 72
And your card has the fan running at 88%

It is worth checking out what is going on there
But this might not be your problem
 
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