What is causing my machine to crash

skalragg

skalragg

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My computer has started crashing every single time I try to play pc games recently, regardless of the game. On idle load it works fine, this problem has been happening a few days.

I've checked the system health of all my hard drives and memory. I've made sure all drivers are up to date on all components including on mobos BIOS. I have monitored temps before crashes but it doesn't seem to be them. CPU maxes to 45C (water cooled and Overclock removed), GPU stays around 70C . I've run full malware scans too

Running out of things to check, but I imagine its either the PSU or GPU causing the issue... any tips/suggestions

Thanks


My system specs are

Motherboard : Z68A-GD65 (MS-7681)
i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz
Corsair Memory XMS3 8GB DDR3 1600 MHz
4GB EVGA 970 GTX
ASUS Xonar Essence STX - PCI-E
Samsung 840 Evo SSD 250GB
 
billysielu said:
What PSU do you have?

Does it blue screen / what's the message?
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It rarely blue screens. sometimes its like someone cuts the power and machine just goes off, sometimes it just freezes on whatever screen and will stay that way until I reboot.

It's a Corsair HX 850W PSU
 
My money is it is the RAM and the motherboard. XMS3 is 1.65v and motherboard only supports 1.5v? Had the same problem with my XMS3 even set to 1.5V and it still crashed.

Try only using 4GB for a while then swap it over to check the RAM is not just faulty.
 
PurplePhoenix said:
My money is it is the RAM and the motherboard. XMS3 is 1.65v and motherboard only supports 1.5v? Had the same problem with my XMS3 even set to 1.5V and it still crashed.

Try only using 4GB for a while then swap it over to check the RAM is not just faulty.
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Cheers, ill try that
 
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