- Aug 15, 2016
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Looking for a second opinion here, on my PC.
For some time, I have been issues with it suddenly shutting down under heavy load, like playing a modern game.
At first, I assumed it to be the fault of my 480. Every time the crash happened, I would reboot with the message "AMD Wattman has shut down due to an unexpected error." Swapped that <Mod Edit> out for a 1070.
It improved. I could, say, play SWTOR for more than 45 minutes straight. Quite a while, actually. However, on playing some more intensive games, the problem reared its head once again. Temps were (and are fine), never reaching above 80 C once it crashes.
I googled the error code hte windows event viewer gave me: Kernel-Power 41(63), and some reading told me the issue was a broken PSU.
I swapped that <Mod Edit> for a new one (and didn't install it upside down this time lol). It improved again. However, once again, the problem reared its ugly head again. Its making playing Yakuza 7 a pain in the ass. New PSU is Corsair RM850, for context.
With both GPU and MOBO seemingly good, I turned my attention to the RAM. I noticed that when I ran the Windows Memory Diagnostic, my PC would shut down after a while. On someone else's advice, I played around with my RAM sticks (2 x 4 GB). Swapped them, ran 1 at a time. It wasn't until I dusted out the RAM ports (which were very dusty) that I got through the diagnostic with no crashes.
However, even though its a noticeable improvement, it still crashes. It takes a lot longer, but it does happen. I attribute this to the heat, as its well into summer, in northern california, with only a swamp cooler to cool my house.
However, to cover my bases, I did run a stress test on my CPU, Prime95. CPU temps were stable, reaching a max of 80C, under 100% load. I ran the test for 15 minutes. However, there was one thing. I have 4 cores, and each was tested individually. 1 core only ran for like 5 seconds, before the test threw out an error. Something like an incorrect calculation, bad rounding. Prime95 stopped all tests on that 1 core, and proceeded with the other 3.
Could the issue be my CPU specifically? Running out of components here lmao. Its an FX-8350, to be exact.
Current PC specs, for posterity
GPU: GeForce GTX 1070
CPU: AMD FX-8350
PSU: Corsair RM850
RAM: 2x4GB DDR3, manufacturer A-DATA (dont know specifics)
OS: Win10
Mobo: M5A97 R2.0
Drives: 500GB SSD, 2TB HDD
For some time, I have been issues with it suddenly shutting down under heavy load, like playing a modern game.
At first, I assumed it to be the fault of my 480. Every time the crash happened, I would reboot with the message "AMD Wattman has shut down due to an unexpected error." Swapped that <Mod Edit> out for a 1070.
It improved. I could, say, play SWTOR for more than 45 minutes straight. Quite a while, actually. However, on playing some more intensive games, the problem reared its head once again. Temps were (and are fine), never reaching above 80 C once it crashes.
I googled the error code hte windows event viewer gave me: Kernel-Power 41(63), and some reading told me the issue was a broken PSU.
I swapped that <Mod Edit> for a new one (and didn't install it upside down this time lol). It improved again. However, once again, the problem reared its ugly head again. Its making playing Yakuza 7 a pain in the ass. New PSU is Corsair RM850, for context.
With both GPU and MOBO seemingly good, I turned my attention to the RAM. I noticed that when I ran the Windows Memory Diagnostic, my PC would shut down after a while. On someone else's advice, I played around with my RAM sticks (2 x 4 GB). Swapped them, ran 1 at a time. It wasn't until I dusted out the RAM ports (which were very dusty) that I got through the diagnostic with no crashes.
However, even though its a noticeable improvement, it still crashes. It takes a lot longer, but it does happen. I attribute this to the heat, as its well into summer, in northern california, with only a swamp cooler to cool my house.
However, to cover my bases, I did run a stress test on my CPU, Prime95. CPU temps were stable, reaching a max of 80C, under 100% load. I ran the test for 15 minutes. However, there was one thing. I have 4 cores, and each was tested individually. 1 core only ran for like 5 seconds, before the test threw out an error. Something like an incorrect calculation, bad rounding. Prime95 stopped all tests on that 1 core, and proceeded with the other 3.
Could the issue be my CPU specifically? Running out of components here lmao. Its an FX-8350, to be exact.
Current PC specs, for posterity
GPU: GeForce GTX 1070
CPU: AMD FX-8350
PSU: Corsair RM850
RAM: 2x4GB DDR3, manufacturer A-DATA (dont know specifics)
OS: Win10
Mobo: M5A97 R2.0
Drives: 500GB SSD, 2TB HDD
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