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Read below for symptoms. I think I may have resolved it.
I cleaned everything, and put it all back together piece by piece, testing each component. 3 sticks of RAM, swap for other 3, then all 6. One GPU, then 2, then with only 6GB of ram... you get the idea.
I used my Kill-a-watt meter to measure just the power draw from the fully assembled tower and found that under full load (FurMark AND Prime95 running), I was pulling an astounding 903 watts!! My Corsair PSU is a TX850. I did this same test when building the rig with 6970s many moons ago, and it was only drawing 750-790. And 6970s are less efficient!! Something like 80-100watts difference PER CARD.
It was cutting it close, but I never run this rig at extreme loads, so once the 780s went in, I never looked back at power consumption.
Can the PSU go bad over a long period of time? I've had them quickly fail in a matter of a few days or so, and also witnessed sudden failures within minutes to hours, but never over a long period.
Any recommendation for a new PSU? Modular if possible but not necessary. See below for specs
Also, assuming it's powering 3 monitors, a printer, a turntable, and a 150w sound system, what hefty power/surge strip should I upgrade to? With all that, it's likely pulling ~1400W+ through it.
Thanks!!
ORIGINAL POST:
As title states, I'm getting random restarts. Sometimes twice an hour, sometimes it doesn't happen for 2-3 days, but it seems like it may be getting more frequent (about once or twice a day for last 4 days).
Totally random. Sometimes crashes when playing a wimpy game like Grim Fandango, but played Metro Redux for 2 hours under full load with no issue. Other times does it while browsing internet, sometimes when it's waking the monitors. Sometimes before crashing, moving windows around is jittery. Like resizing FireFox with the corner arrows is SLOW. Like won't even register I resized it for like 3/4 of a second.
Just did a clean install of Nvidia drivers. Ran furmark AND 3DMark. Crashed on both once temps on GPU started reaching 78-80. Temperature limit is set to 79, so is the rolling-back of the clocks an issue?
Also, RARELY, it will hang almost like full CPU load for about 1-2 full seconds before crash, but rainmeter on the desktop doesn't register the full load. Of course, it's frozen, but it never displays a large spike before crash. Again, RARELY, the left 1 of my 3 monitors will flicker before crashing. Speaking of that monitor, it sometime does THIS when changing resolution or something. If I Screenshot it, it displays the full window, but I can only see black screen... I think it's crashed once or twice while displaying this symptom, but most of the time, it's just really laggy for about 5 seconds. I can move any other window into that screen with no issue, but only Chrome does that.
Specs: (system is approximately 4 years old. On about 4-5 hours a day. 10 hours a week of gaming.)
i7-980x @ stock 3.33 -Normal temps on A70 air cooler (Low 30s idle, High 50s load)
Asus P6X58D-E
12GB ram @1066
2x GTX 780
Corsair 850W (TX, I think... the yellow one)
Samsung 840 Pro SSD
2x WD BLACK data drives
Blu-ray drive
CASE FANS: 1 200mm, 3 120mm
CPU voltages are bouncing around from ~.86V to 1.24V, but mostly around 1.048-1.24
Can someone point me in the right direction to figure this out?
Thanks much!
Read below for symptoms. I think I may have resolved it.
I cleaned everything, and put it all back together piece by piece, testing each component. 3 sticks of RAM, swap for other 3, then all 6. One GPU, then 2, then with only 6GB of ram... you get the idea.
I used my Kill-a-watt meter to measure just the power draw from the fully assembled tower and found that under full load (FurMark AND Prime95 running), I was pulling an astounding 903 watts!! My Corsair PSU is a TX850. I did this same test when building the rig with 6970s many moons ago, and it was only drawing 750-790. And 6970s are less efficient!! Something like 80-100watts difference PER CARD.
It was cutting it close, but I never run this rig at extreme loads, so once the 780s went in, I never looked back at power consumption.
Can the PSU go bad over a long period of time? I've had them quickly fail in a matter of a few days or so, and also witnessed sudden failures within minutes to hours, but never over a long period.
Any recommendation for a new PSU? Modular if possible but not necessary. See below for specs
Also, assuming it's powering 3 monitors, a printer, a turntable, and a 150w sound system, what hefty power/surge strip should I upgrade to? With all that, it's likely pulling ~1400W+ through it.
Thanks!!
ORIGINAL POST:
As title states, I'm getting random restarts. Sometimes twice an hour, sometimes it doesn't happen for 2-3 days, but it seems like it may be getting more frequent (about once or twice a day for last 4 days).
Totally random. Sometimes crashes when playing a wimpy game like Grim Fandango, but played Metro Redux for 2 hours under full load with no issue. Other times does it while browsing internet, sometimes when it's waking the monitors. Sometimes before crashing, moving windows around is jittery. Like resizing FireFox with the corner arrows is SLOW. Like won't even register I resized it for like 3/4 of a second.
Just did a clean install of Nvidia drivers. Ran furmark AND 3DMark. Crashed on both once temps on GPU started reaching 78-80. Temperature limit is set to 79, so is the rolling-back of the clocks an issue?
Also, RARELY, it will hang almost like full CPU load for about 1-2 full seconds before crash, but rainmeter on the desktop doesn't register the full load. Of course, it's frozen, but it never displays a large spike before crash. Again, RARELY, the left 1 of my 3 monitors will flicker before crashing. Speaking of that monitor, it sometime does THIS when changing resolution or something. If I Screenshot it, it displays the full window, but I can only see black screen... I think it's crashed once or twice while displaying this symptom, but most of the time, it's just really laggy for about 5 seconds. I can move any other window into that screen with no issue, but only Chrome does that.
Specs: (system is approximately 4 years old. On about 4-5 hours a day. 10 hours a week of gaming.)
i7-980x @ stock 3.33 -Normal temps on A70 air cooler (Low 30s idle, High 50s load)
Asus P6X58D-E
12GB ram @1066
2x GTX 780
Corsair 850W (TX, I think... the yellow one)
Samsung 840 Pro SSD
2x WD BLACK data drives
Blu-ray drive
CASE FANS: 1 200mm, 3 120mm
CPU voltages are bouncing around from ~.86V to 1.24V, but mostly around 1.048-1.24
Can someone point me in the right direction to figure this out?
Thanks much!
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