Accidental AMD overclock resulting in restarts?

Trent FosterTon

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Jul 4, 2013
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Hi all

this issue has been bothering me for a while

when I play a game I get a restart after a while, I checked around the forums and have eliminated some of the usual suspects (Drivers/Bios updates, Ram's fine and I think my GPU is as well But I'm not 100% sure yet) I haven't eliminated my PSU yet but I have another theory I'd like to test first.

Before we begin just know I have no understanding of overcloking I built the computer years ago as a stock machine to play games at an average performance, so please forgive my lack of knowledge.

So I've had AMD overdrive since I built the thing in 2012 I just use it to read core temperatures and I have never had any intention of over clocking, Suddenly I just get this feeling that a while ago I may have played around with the settings on overdrive arbitrarily and just not thought any thing of it but I can't remember if I did or not.

Core temps while idle at around 40°

Under stress from around 4 minuets from Prime95 it went to 69° before I stopped it manually

Any whoo My processor is an AMD Phenom II X6 1075T and I can't tell what the stock settings are meant to be so I'm uploading a few screen grabs of AMD over drive and CPU Z (which seems to list the cpu as a 1070T instead of a 1075T for some reason) I Was wanting to get you guys opinion on weather or not that's the case and from the screen grabs and if any of you know a way of resetting to defaults (or just the settings I need to put into overdrive to get it back to Factory mode)

also if it isn't this any one know a good PSU tester not a wattage calculator I mean something I can use to tell if the PSU is dying if not I'll just change it.

UPDATE

New pictures under here tested under stress playing Day z standalone at max.

https://goo.gl/photos/kmE5wUGSFejUTDnZ9 I took these two starting out on day z

https://goo.gl/photos/AXvhiUmDHRjFj7Ae9 I took these just before restart

on both the albums above one picture is the top section of the stress tester the second picture is it scrolled down as it wouldnt all fit on page.

Also I should say the restarts have become a lot less random every time I've played dayz it's been about 15 minuets in where as I used to some times get 10 minuets some times get an hour.

UPDATE
 
UPDATE

New pictures under here tested under stress playing Day z standalone at max.

https://goo.gl/photos/kmE5wUGSFejUTDnZ9 I took these two starting out on day z

https://goo.gl/photos/AXvhiUmDHRjFj7Ae9 I took these just before restart

on both the albums above one picture is the top section of the stress tester the second picture is it scrolled down as it wouldn't all fit on page.

Also I should say the restarts have become a lot less random every time I've played dayz it's been about 15 minuets in where as I used to some times get 10 minuets some times get an hour.

UPDATE
 
That is seeming more and more likely by the day Mike.

I'm testing it this weekend borrowing my brothers and seeing if it makes a difference, if it is my GPU I'll give you best solution and probably will end up doing so anyway as yours is the the only response :)