Strange one last night while Gaming

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My System has been Overclocked since I owned it without any odd things going on. That was until last night and I suspect that my PSU has\is giving up the Ghost but if you guys can concur, that would be great.

So, Gaming in BF4 for a good 3 hours yesterday and without warning, a black screen followed by all Case fans spinning down. Oh, was my first thought.

So, powered up. Fired up BF4 and the Game lasted a matter of seconds (30 most) before a Black Screen and machine powered off.

Again I thought, oh odd. Checked Temps, all okay, check volts to various components, all okay. So, dropped my Overclock back to 4Ghz on the CPU and dropped my newly installed GTX970 back to stock - was mild OC (came from a 7970).

Fired up BF4 and again with 30 seconds to a minute - same thing.

I Dr Googled my PSU (Thermaltake Tough Power 750 Watt Cable Management), which as it turns out is now several (6-7 years) old - never realized I'd had it that long.

So, your opinions please guys? PSU> if so which one?

Is was thinking of:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-013-EA&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=2390

Any help\advice you can offer.
 
You thinking of going SLI in the future? 750W or even 650W would do you find if not (just to potentially save you a few pennies) - sorry I can help on the technical front.
 
DR_Pingu said:
You thinking of going SLI in the future? 750W or even 650W would do you find if not (just to potentially save you a few pennies) - sorry I can help on the technical front.
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+1 750W will cover you for future SLI 970s, 850W for 980s, and 550W for a single card

Try putting the CPU and everything to stock and try again
 
I have, but only Heaven while testing the Overclock on the 970. Nothing seemed to be up then and it sat doing a 2 hr loop. I don't count World of Warcraft as intense :). As most of us do, we are checking Volts from the PSU along with temps etc etc.

So far it's only been BF4 - but then I play BF4 for longer than I do any kind of GPU benching/stability testing (apart from last nigt:)).

My first thoughts where the new Galax IBE. But that would crash in different ways (Driver\Artifacts) and would start to clock back when it hits temp thresholds - which it isn't.

And as I said in the OP, the OC on the CPU has been stable for years.

This just seems like the PSU says, 'I've had enough' and quits - like a Capacitor has given up on holding charge. The PSU is old (reviews date back to 2006) and I built a machine around that time which was a Q6600 OC'd too.

FYI, this is the PSU:

http://techgage.com/article/thermaltake_toughpower_modular_750w_psu/
 
bf4 is cpu/memory heavy

how much vccio or vccsa you using for 16gb of memory? stock is 1.05v might need more to be stable

instant off's like that can be memory controller voltage not enough aswell as psu
 
wazza300 said:
bf4 is cpu/memory heavy

how much vccio or vccsa you using for 16gb of memory? stock is 1.05v might need more to be stable

instant off's like that can be memory controller voltage not enough aswell as psu
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Yes, the mem controller was upped one notch from the 1.05v stock.

I'm up and running with the new PSU right now and so far so good - strange thing is, even the Case fans are running at a higher RPM.

I'll monitor it.
 
Well, I've just been on BF4 for a good couple of hours and all looks okay. So, I'm sure that my trusty old Toughpower was the fault - bless it.

I will look at upping the Mem Controller a little more.

Thanks for you help wazza!
 
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