Hello everyone! I am having a very frustrating issue with PC, and I am hoping I can get some help please!
Specs:
I point this out because my office/entryway circuit has been flipping consistently lately (5-6 days). I did the regular troubleshooting, unplugging specific lamps, printers, etc., and trying again. Then, I figured my pc was probably the culprit. I took a heavy-duty extension cord, connected it to my PC, and tried it in two different rooms... Sure enough, it was causing a power outage in those rooms as well!
So my first "fix" was replacing the PSU. I figured that might be failing and causing a surge. It was an EVGA 850 GOLD, replaced it with a brand new PSU, hoping that would fix it, but it did not. Same problem. It's a pretty cool little PSU, though!
After some more trial and error, I realized this was ONLY happening when I would play a game. When my PC was working, I had been playing MW2 and Civ 6 lately, but now if I try those games again, I notice it can happen anywhere between 2-15 minutes of game time. The time is never exactly consistent.
So now I'm telling myself it's the GPU. I watched it run since I had the case open from swapping the PSU, and upon inspecting it, it seems to sound and run fine. The heat sink on top does get quite hot, but nothing else noticeable. Furthermore, when I play games, I notice NO graphical glitches or stuttering of any kind. The game will simply be playing, then everything suddenly shuts down due to a flipped breaker.
Once I get home from work, I will go more in depth and check temperatures... But I am having trouble finding any information on GPUs just overheating and shutting a PC down completely, especially with no games crashes or graphical glitching.
Some things to note - I have called and spoke with an electrician. He said there's no way my PC, and everything else in that circuit is enough to flip the breaker. It is an arc fuse, which he did say can be touchy and sometimes go bad, but then I told him I was able to replicate the problem in two other rooms on different circuits. So he said "yeah, no way." But he can still replace it (upgrade it?) if I like?
I also do not think it's the motherboard, I looked over the entire thing pretty thoroughly and did not see anything <Mod Edit> up looking. I don't think It's the CPU, but I could trying to replace the thermal paste? All the wiring looked fine as well. I even replaced all the wiring leading to the PSU, and i disconnected the RAM and checked all that over.
I have not been finding the greatest info regarding this issue, so I'm really at a loss here. Has someone experienced a similar occurrence and can confirm I need a new GPU, before I spend a good chunk of money?
Thanks in advance!
Specs:
- Motherboard: Z370 Aorus Gaming 7
- CPU: i7-8700k
- GPU: EVGA 1080 FTW
- RAM : 32GB (4x8 DDR4)
- PSU : Corsair CX750F
- Cooler : Corsair H115?
I point this out because my office/entryway circuit has been flipping consistently lately (5-6 days). I did the regular troubleshooting, unplugging specific lamps, printers, etc., and trying again. Then, I figured my pc was probably the culprit. I took a heavy-duty extension cord, connected it to my PC, and tried it in two different rooms... Sure enough, it was causing a power outage in those rooms as well!
So my first "fix" was replacing the PSU. I figured that might be failing and causing a surge. It was an EVGA 850 GOLD, replaced it with a brand new PSU, hoping that would fix it, but it did not. Same problem. It's a pretty cool little PSU, though!
After some more trial and error, I realized this was ONLY happening when I would play a game. When my PC was working, I had been playing MW2 and Civ 6 lately, but now if I try those games again, I notice it can happen anywhere between 2-15 minutes of game time. The time is never exactly consistent.
So now I'm telling myself it's the GPU. I watched it run since I had the case open from swapping the PSU, and upon inspecting it, it seems to sound and run fine. The heat sink on top does get quite hot, but nothing else noticeable. Furthermore, when I play games, I notice NO graphical glitches or stuttering of any kind. The game will simply be playing, then everything suddenly shuts down due to a flipped breaker.
Once I get home from work, I will go more in depth and check temperatures... But I am having trouble finding any information on GPUs just overheating and shutting a PC down completely, especially with no games crashes or graphical glitching.
Some things to note - I have called and spoke with an electrician. He said there's no way my PC, and everything else in that circuit is enough to flip the breaker. It is an arc fuse, which he did say can be touchy and sometimes go bad, but then I told him I was able to replicate the problem in two other rooms on different circuits. So he said "yeah, no way." But he can still replace it (upgrade it?) if I like?
I also do not think it's the motherboard, I looked over the entire thing pretty thoroughly and did not see anything <Mod Edit> up looking. I don't think It's the CPU, but I could trying to replace the thermal paste? All the wiring looked fine as well. I even replaced all the wiring leading to the PSU, and i disconnected the RAM and checked all that over.
I have not been finding the greatest info regarding this issue, so I'm really at a loss here. Has someone experienced a similar occurrence and can confirm I need a new GPU, before I spend a good chunk of money?
Thanks in advance!
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