Recent content by Tomascari

Yeah I have an old GPU I can try if needs be. I'll see what happens when I remove the RTX from the system entirely and go from there. Haha to be honest, I decided to build this PC not because I needed anything in particular but because I fancied a bit of a project so now I have the means to...

I had thought of the GPU initially but I've largely dismissed it as a cause as I've run Unigine Superposition and FurMark twice for an hour with no crash at all (GPU temps never get above 70C either). Regardless, I'm going to be doing some isolation testing tomorrow and removing everything I...

A Gigabyte RTX 3060 Eagle OC

Yep, latest versions of Prime95 and OCCT. First couple of Prime95 tests were blended then I moved to small FFTs but other than that, all settings were default. I haven't configured AVX offsets so thank you very much for this info, I'll set this up properly when I run my next tests! I'm quite a...

The PSU is brand new as with all the other components. I didn't look into the warranty much when I selected it as SFX PSUs are hard to come by so again, it was more of an availability purchase. But as it's brand new, there shouldn't be any problems if it needs returning. I have a very old PSU I...

Yeah the problem I'm trying to solve is causing random restarts while gaming (with CPU not highly loaded and as low as 60C) but I've found that running CPU stress tests produces the exact same restart fairly quickly every time so I'm using it as a diagnostics tool. I have a Silverstone SX700-G...

Thanks for the response and suggestions, keith hit the nail on the head though :)

Thanks for the suggestion - just tried and no difference made. CPU remained at 100C while presing the heatsink down. Ahhh you've cracked it, thank you! Stupidly, I didn't check the power draw from the CPU and looking through the logs now I can see the 100C corresponds perfectly to it pulling...

Hi guys, So I've been doing some Prime95 stress testing to try and solve another problem I've been having. This has all been in the last 3 or 4 days. Initially, the CPU was maxing out at about 75C, occasionally up to 80C. I've done about 10 CPU stress tests ranging from 5 mins to about 45 mins...

It's in a Cooler Master NR200P (hence the ITX motherboard) 🙂

Thanks for your response. I may be able to try my old PSU but other than that, I haven't got easy access to another. One thing I forgot to mention was running HWinfo during the CPU stress tests. For the most part, the CPU maxed out about 75C but interestingly, on the last couple of runs, it...

Hi everyone, I just built my first PC and it works like a dream... except it occasionally shuts down and restarts while gaming. The specs are (all brand new components): CPU: Intel i5 11600k (with Vetroo V5 Air cooler) Motherboard: Asus ROG Strix B560-I Gaming Wifi RAM: 2x8GB Corsair Vengeance...

I have just replaced my 2 old HDDs (500GB each) with a new WD 2TB drive. The old drives were in RAID and Windows was therefore preinstalled (by the manufacturer) in RAID mode. I simply cloned the data onto the new drive but have suffered severe performance losses and after going through several...