Crash on Boot / Poor performance once running

Geordie1881 · 2 Feb 2020 at 12:57

Hi All

Looking for a little advice as i am having issues with my PC (bought Apr 2018)

Custom Intel i7-8700K @ 4.9GHz System
- Seasonic Focus Plus 650W 80 Plus Gold Modular Power Supply
- Intel Core i7-8700K 3.7GHz (Coffee Lake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail
- Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1070Ti WindForce 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express
- Samsung 500GB 860 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 64 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid
State Drive (MZ-76E500B/EU)
- WD 1TB Blue 7200rpm Internal Hard Drive
- Alphacool Eisbaer LT360 CPU AIO Water Cooling Unit - 240mm (11446)
- Asrock Z370 Extreme 4 Intel Z370 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard
- Team Group Vulcan T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz

I have what I believe is a solid spec (aided by this community!) so a little confused as to why I am now seeing the system fail on start (before Windows screen) or, if lucky, load but then crash afree a few minutes (if i run a game it performs terribly, audio is messed up and then eventually the system just turns off)

Could it be a PSU issue? (Google's fav suggestion but with no suggestion of how to confirm) if so, is that likely to be underpowered or a failing PSU ?

Hope you can help!

Cheers

Geordie1881 · 2 Feb 2020 at 13:17

Quartz said:
Has it leaked? Has the water evaporated? Has the pump failed? See this thread for an earlier incident.

Thanks I'll take a look. come to think of it I haven't heard the watercool recently so you may have hit the nail on the head. I'll report back soon

Geordie1881 · 2 Feb 2020 at 17:19

So I managed to get into windows and install core temp. starting temps are 70+ and let it run for a few mins whilst moving files from 1 drive to another (a light load i would expect... simply to see what happened) after 5 mins temps reached 95 so I shut the system down.

still no "wooosh" from the watercooler so seems the likely cause. I do have OCUK support. as this is an all in one water cooler (and I am not experienced in water coolers) common sense would suggest speak to OCUK support in the morning. However I need the system for an important video call later in the week (best not say stage 1 interview just in case my current boss is monitoring my communications haha) are there any quick/easy remedies?

@Quartz you didn't seem impressed with the cooler choice. if i do need to replace is there something you'd recommend?

Thanks for your help

Cheers

Geordie1881 · 6 Feb 2020 at 08:07

Thanks all,

I have returned the broken AIO to OCUK and a replacement is being sent. as this part is out of stock they are replacing with this...

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/frac...-360mm-all-in-one-water-cooler-hs-00b-fd.html

Seems to be similar so I am not too worried, unless any of you can suggest a reason why o should be.

cheers