Soldato
i5 2500k (no longer OC'd)
Superflower 550W Ledex Gold
AS Rock Z68 Extreme 3
8GB RAM
GTX 980 (not OC'd)
My PC currently reboots under load - only when gaming - and actually completely powers off for a few seconds, then starts up. It's not a Windows crash, it's a hardware power off.
It started doing it about a month ago, while playing WoW. Twice on the bounce. So I turned down the graphical detail, and it seemed to stabilise.
About 3-4 days later (I'd picked up ME:A, and was playing that) it started doing it regularly, so this time, I removed the OC on my 2500k from 4.2Ghz down to stock.
This stabilised it for about 10 days, then it started again. So I figured it was temp related (almost summer, higher ambient) but both HWMonitor and Speedfan reported OK temps (CPU never going above 50, GFX not over 84, system 45)
It seems random - it did it 3 times in quick succession just now, sometimes not even loading Mass Effect properly before crashing and especially during transitions on load screens. Logged temps at the time aren't even near the above mentioned highs at this point.
It seems temp related (increase in ambient could explain the increase in regularity) but at the same time, it seems oddly 'degenerative' in me having to turn down the detail, then turn down the OC, etc, but the temp monitoring doesn't support it.
And I've never seem overheating actually power of the system completely for a few seconds, that seems more like PSU or mainboard issues?
Anyone any ideas?
Superflower 550W Ledex Gold
AS Rock Z68 Extreme 3
8GB RAM
GTX 980 (not OC'd)
My PC currently reboots under load - only when gaming - and actually completely powers off for a few seconds, then starts up. It's not a Windows crash, it's a hardware power off.
It started doing it about a month ago, while playing WoW. Twice on the bounce. So I turned down the graphical detail, and it seemed to stabilise.
About 3-4 days later (I'd picked up ME:A, and was playing that) it started doing it regularly, so this time, I removed the OC on my 2500k from 4.2Ghz down to stock.
This stabilised it for about 10 days, then it started again. So I figured it was temp related (almost summer, higher ambient) but both HWMonitor and Speedfan reported OK temps (CPU never going above 50, GFX not over 84, system 45)
It seems random - it did it 3 times in quick succession just now, sometimes not even loading Mass Effect properly before crashing and especially during transitions on load screens. Logged temps at the time aren't even near the above mentioned highs at this point.
It seems temp related (increase in ambient could explain the increase in regularity) but at the same time, it seems oddly 'degenerative' in me having to turn down the detail, then turn down the OC, etc, but the temp monitoring doesn't support it.
And I've never seem overheating actually power of the system completely for a few seconds, that seems more like PSU or mainboard issues?
Anyone any ideas?
