The system is about 18 months old, and I keep getting all kinds of weird issues.
Specs:
i7-13700k
Gigabyte GA-Z790 Gaming X AX
64GB Kingston Fury DDR5-6000
Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3070 Ganing OC 8GB
2x Samsung EVO M.2 SSDs
1x Seagate IronWolf 8TB
Seasonic Focus GX 750 Gold PSU
I had BSODs (win32k*.sys) under load with some games, first I thought it was bad RAM, but I've bought a replacement set (2x32GB instead of 4x16), and the issues didn't stop. Next I've tried disabling E-cores after reading up on some older games not handling the Win11 scheduler very well, sending heavy threads to those E-cores, that did solve the BSOD issue, but the other problem stayed around. Under load my display blacks out, GPU fans spin up and only a soft keyboard shortcut reset, or a hard one via the power button lets me boot up normally. There was one thing I've omitted from checking, assuming that a brand new PSU can't be bad, what with the brand quality.
My question is, is it worth a shot to have the PSU tested and replaced if needed? A few days while I'm off on vacation. Or am I completely off the mark and the CPU is bad (disabled E-cores solved at least something).
Thanks alot.
Specs:
i7-13700k
Gigabyte GA-Z790 Gaming X AX
64GB Kingston Fury DDR5-6000
Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3070 Ganing OC 8GB
2x Samsung EVO M.2 SSDs
1x Seagate IronWolf 8TB
Seasonic Focus GX 750 Gold PSU
I had BSODs (win32k*.sys) under load with some games, first I thought it was bad RAM, but I've bought a replacement set (2x32GB instead of 4x16), and the issues didn't stop. Next I've tried disabling E-cores after reading up on some older games not handling the Win11 scheduler very well, sending heavy threads to those E-cores, that did solve the BSOD issue, but the other problem stayed around. Under load my display blacks out, GPU fans spin up and only a soft keyboard shortcut reset, or a hard one via the power button lets me boot up normally. There was one thing I've omitted from checking, assuming that a brand new PSU can't be bad, what with the brand quality.
My question is, is it worth a shot to have the PSU tested and replaced if needed? A few days while I'm off on vacation. Or am I completely off the mark and the CPU is bad (disabled E-cores solved at least something).
Thanks alot.
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