Recently I've upgraded my GPU to a GTX1080 from a GTX970 in order to play in 4K. While playing some of the more resource intensive games (Ark: Survival Evolved, Gears of War 4, and even The Forest), I started to suffer crashes where my computer would freeze with the audio stuck repeating whatever the last sound was when it crashed and I couldn't do anything but hard reset it. If I waited a little while (roughly 30 seconds), my computer seemed to restart itself.
At first I thought it might be my HDD either dying (as there were reviews on the product warning of potential death after a year and it has been two years since I got it) or overheating from having to handle a 4K game at max settings, but I replaced the HDD with a 1TB SSD, but the problem continued. I checked to make sure my NVIDIA driver was up to date, and it was. I thought it might be an issue with it overheating as the problem appeared to occur after a while of gaming (like 30 minutes to 2 hours) and would occur more often if I got back into the game after a crash, but I downloaded HWMonitor and the temperatures weren't very high (will list them at the bottom of the post). So after searching for a while for a solution, I'm suspecting it may be a PSU issue, but I'm not sure and still think a 750W PSU should be sufficient.
Any help with the issue would be greatly appreciated.
Note: I have not OC anything as it has all been sufficient for my needs without being OC. Also, I run the OS on the Kingston SSD and just installed the Samsung 1TB SSD and put all of my games on there. I run all of my games on the 4K monitor and use the 1080 for general use like surfing the web or TS.
My Computer -
OS: Windows 10
MB: MSI X99S MPOWER
CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K Haswell-E 6-Core 3.3 GHz LGA 2011-v3
CPU Cooling: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO
PSU: Rosewill CAPSTONE 750M 750W Modular Power Supply (80 PLUS GOLD Certified)
Memory: Ballistix Sport 16GB (4 x 4GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM
Storage: 2x Seagate Desktop HDD ST1000DM003 1TB 64MB Cache
Kingston Digital 240GB SSD
Samsung 850 EVO 1TB SSD
Graphics Card: MSI GeForce GTX 1080 DirectX 12 GTX 1080 GAMING 8G
Monitors: 4K - ASUS PB287Q Black 28" 1ms
1K - ASUS VN248H-P Slim Bezel Black 23.8" 5ms
Heat Readings from one of the crashes (took a picture of the second screen that had HWMonitor on it when it froze).
MSI X99S MPOWER -
SYSTIN: 45C
CPUTIN: 54C
TMPIN3: 56C
Intel Core i7 5820K -
CORE#0: 56C
CORE#1: 51C
CORE#2: 53C
CORE#3: 54C
CORE#4: 52C
CORE#5: 39C
Package: 56C
Samsung SSD -
Air Flow: 39C
Seagate ST100DM003 1TB -
Assembly: 42C
Air Flow: 42C
Kingston 240GB -
Assembly: 38C
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 -
TMPIN0: 70C
At first I thought it might be my HDD either dying (as there were reviews on the product warning of potential death after a year and it has been two years since I got it) or overheating from having to handle a 4K game at max settings, but I replaced the HDD with a 1TB SSD, but the problem continued. I checked to make sure my NVIDIA driver was up to date, and it was. I thought it might be an issue with it overheating as the problem appeared to occur after a while of gaming (like 30 minutes to 2 hours) and would occur more often if I got back into the game after a crash, but I downloaded HWMonitor and the temperatures weren't very high (will list them at the bottom of the post). So after searching for a while for a solution, I'm suspecting it may be a PSU issue, but I'm not sure and still think a 750W PSU should be sufficient.
Any help with the issue would be greatly appreciated.
Note: I have not OC anything as it has all been sufficient for my needs without being OC. Also, I run the OS on the Kingston SSD and just installed the Samsung 1TB SSD and put all of my games on there. I run all of my games on the 4K monitor and use the 1080 for general use like surfing the web or TS.
My Computer -
OS: Windows 10
MB: MSI X99S MPOWER
CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K Haswell-E 6-Core 3.3 GHz LGA 2011-v3
CPU Cooling: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO
PSU: Rosewill CAPSTONE 750M 750W Modular Power Supply (80 PLUS GOLD Certified)
Memory: Ballistix Sport 16GB (4 x 4GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM
Storage: 2x Seagate Desktop HDD ST1000DM003 1TB 64MB Cache
Kingston Digital 240GB SSD
Samsung 850 EVO 1TB SSD
Graphics Card: MSI GeForce GTX 1080 DirectX 12 GTX 1080 GAMING 8G
Monitors: 4K - ASUS PB287Q Black 28" 1ms
1K - ASUS VN248H-P Slim Bezel Black 23.8" 5ms
Heat Readings from one of the crashes (took a picture of the second screen that had HWMonitor on it when it froze).
MSI X99S MPOWER -
SYSTIN: 45C
CPUTIN: 54C
TMPIN3: 56C
Intel Core i7 5820K -
CORE#0: 56C
CORE#1: 51C
CORE#2: 53C
CORE#3: 54C
CORE#4: 52C
CORE#5: 39C
Package: 56C
Samsung SSD -
Air Flow: 39C
Seagate ST100DM003 1TB -
Assembly: 42C
Air Flow: 42C
Kingston 240GB -
Assembly: 38C
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 -
TMPIN0: 70C
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