Monitors randomly cutting out when playing High-end games.

Hayter1 · 18 Sep 2013 at 02:14

Hello Ive built my new PC about 3 weeks ago and when I play higher-end games such as wow or ff14 for a while or sometimes even just half-hour, the computer seems to just crash and the monitors go into power-saving mode or something. This only happens with higher end games, I can play games like Garry's mod and some others fine with no problems.

The temperatures on my GPU's seems to be ok the 1st one goes to around 70 max and the 2nd 50ish max and my CPU 30-40 all cores and around 25-40% usage according to SpeedFan.

My specs are:
MSI HD 7950 Twin Frozr III Boost Edition 3072MB x2
Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor
Gigabyte Z87X-OC Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard
Corsair Carbide 540 High Airflow ATX Cube Case
XFX Pro 850W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply
Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C10 2400MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit
Samsung 250GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic
Corsair Hydro H100 Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler *Manufacturer Refurbished Unit
Corsair SP120 Quiet Series High Pressure Low Noise - Dual Pack
I am using Dual-monitors also.

Does anyone have any idea that I could tyr to fix this or anything to test what the problem could be?

Hayter1 · 18 Sep 2013 at 02:24

Ah i forgot to mention I haven't bothered to attempt any overclocking yet due to this problem.

Hayter1 · 18 Sep 2013 at 02:47

Ill try that, sometimes though It can go all day without any problems, so testing may be difficult.
Any other ideas or solutions?

Hayter1 · 20 Sep 2013 at 07:37

Hello thanks for the advice, im going to try run 1 graphics card and swap them about later today. A quick question can the http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-190-MS&tool=3 support 2 monitors without me having to buy any adapters?

Ive noticed more of a pattern when the shutdowns happen, today I was playing fine without any trouble and when I switched to my other screen to watch a youtube video the crash happened, this also happens a lot when I switch to load a twitch stream.

I ran the Heaven Benchmark and this was my result if you can deduce anything from it - http://i.imgur.com/uJSGeW8.png
Is that fps about right for my rig? and it seems to be only using 1 card there.

Hayter1 · 20 Sep 2013 at 09:17

Thanks for the idea.

Alright after some searching I disabled ULPS and put my MSI Afterburner into Unofficial overclocking mode without PowerPlay support. I hope Ive done this right. Is there anything else I need to do now before I end up melting my cards? Ill test some games out later and such and post results.