Hey all,
Thanks for taking a second to review my problem. I've built a computer for about 8 months now and have had repeated problems with it. I have been building computers for some years with great success, but I think I've finally stumbled into a problem I can't fix.
I have had the motherboard in for replacement and MSI ended up giving me a new one saying that there were some fried parts, not necessarily as a direct result of overheating.
I have had the processor sent in to AMD and they returned me a fresh one saying the core was reading a little higher than they would like. They told me to monitor it and if it passed about 58oC to consider a different heat sink.. I've never seen this new processor pass 57oC, so I'm assuming it's okay with the stock heat sink.
I dont overclock ANYTHING that wasn't overclocked out of box.
Specs:
Problem:
The computer shuts down only when I am really dogging it. For instance, yesterday, I had Photoshop/Unreal Dev Kit/Web Browser/Messenger/Movie tut/Documentation all running on Windows 7 and was using close to 3gb of memory and had just opened the Unreal Dev test mode and after about 3 minutes of traveling around to diagnose my map, it shut down.
I was monitoring the temperatures as I was fully aware I had a lot going on and was definitely pushing it as hard as I could. Video showed about 75oC (I've called EVGA and they claim this is right about where it should be at peak temperature); my core was at about 56-57oC (again, I've called this in and AMD claims that's about perfect at peak); and my general system temperature was about 53oC and suddenly, poof, the computer went off.
The board didn't seem to receive any damage and came right back on and ran without any complaints, it was just that it seemed to say "I have had enough, I'm going down".
I don't see any event logs in Windows Event viewer outside unexpected power outage, so I'm assuming it was delegated by the board, not windows.
I have run prime95 for 24 hours to make sure that the processor isn't having trouble, and I ran 3dmark for 6 hours to make sure it wasn't video trouble and neither item alone pops the computer.
Reading around, I don't believe I'm using over 450w-500w of power, and have a 700w power supply, that wattage calculation came from a wattage calculator and I tried to get at least 200 over the suggested amount.
How can I figure out what is shutting down this dang computer!? Any suggestions? Should I just buy a second power supply and try it? is 700w grossly underpowered for this kind of setup?
I'm going in for another prime95 test this weekend in fear that the board got damaged again. Does anyone have any other applications I should use to test what is causing this?
Thanks for taking a second to review my problem. I've built a computer for about 8 months now and have had repeated problems with it. I have been building computers for some years with great success, but I think I've finally stumbled into a problem I can't fix.
I have had the motherboard in for replacement and MSI ended up giving me a new one saying that there were some fried parts, not necessarily as a direct result of overheating.
I have had the processor sent in to AMD and they returned me a fresh one saying the core was reading a little higher than they would like. They told me to monitor it and if it passed about 58oC to consider a different heat sink.. I've never seen this new processor pass 57oC, so I'm assuming it's okay with the stock heat sink.
I dont overclock ANYTHING that wasn't overclocked out of box.
Specs:
OCZ Platinum 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model OCZ3P16004GK
AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition Deneb 3.2GHz Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core Processor Model HDZ955FBGIBOX
OCZ ModXStream Pro OCZ700MXSP 700W ATX12V V2.2 / EPS12V SLI Certified CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Modular Active PFC
MSI 790GX-G65 AM3 AMD 790GX HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard
EVGA 896-P3-1260-AR GeForce GTX 260 896MB 448-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
3x 500gb hdd
1x DVD Burner
5x 120mm fans
Antec Performance One P180 Silver cold rolled steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
Problem:
The computer shuts down only when I am really dogging it. For instance, yesterday, I had Photoshop/Unreal Dev Kit/Web Browser/Messenger/Movie tut/Documentation all running on Windows 7 and was using close to 3gb of memory and had just opened the Unreal Dev test mode and after about 3 minutes of traveling around to diagnose my map, it shut down.
I was monitoring the temperatures as I was fully aware I had a lot going on and was definitely pushing it as hard as I could. Video showed about 75oC (I've called EVGA and they claim this is right about where it should be at peak temperature); my core was at about 56-57oC (again, I've called this in and AMD claims that's about perfect at peak); and my general system temperature was about 53oC and suddenly, poof, the computer went off.
The board didn't seem to receive any damage and came right back on and ran without any complaints, it was just that it seemed to say "I have had enough, I'm going down".
I don't see any event logs in Windows Event viewer outside unexpected power outage, so I'm assuming it was delegated by the board, not windows.
I have run prime95 for 24 hours to make sure that the processor isn't having trouble, and I ran 3dmark for 6 hours to make sure it wasn't video trouble and neither item alone pops the computer.
Reading around, I don't believe I'm using over 450w-500w of power, and have a 700w power supply, that wattage calculation came from a wattage calculator and I tried to get at least 200 over the suggested amount.
How can I figure out what is shutting down this dang computer!? Any suggestions? Should I just buy a second power supply and try it? is 700w grossly underpowered for this kind of setup?
I'm going in for another prime95 test this weekend in fear that the board got damaged again. Does anyone have any other applications I should use to test what is causing this?