- Feb 28, 2018
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First off here's my build
CPU- Ryzen 5 1400
GPU- XFX AMD RX 580 8gb
Mobo- MSI Tomahawk b350
Ram- Corsair Vengeance LPX 8GB (2x4gb) ddr4
PSU- BitFenix Whisper M 450W
Sandisk SSD and 1TB HDD
The problem:
Just built this machine and installed Ubuntu 16.04 on it and got my drivers installed. Everything runs fine under normal conditions, that is to say the temperatures stay around 30-40C and usage is normal. It is not until I load up certain games, in this case I attempted to test TF2 and Hollow Knight, that the system either restarts after a certain amount of time when gaming, which is the case with Hollow Knight, or (I think) the CPU shuts off when loading into a server in TF2. The only way of rebooting with the latter is to power off the power supply directly and switch it back on. I know my PC is plenty beefy to run these games perfectly fine so I don't understand why this is happening. Something that may be worth noting is that I can run Minecraft perfectly for any amount of time without resets happening, but that may be because it was downloaded though the Ubuntu Software application and not from a 3rd party application like Steam.
Quick backstory with this machine. I had Win10 installed prior and the restarting issue was much more pronounced. When this issue first occurred, it was when I was trying to install my drivers on Win10, and the system would just restart in the middle of instillation, so I wasn't able to do much. All it would take was a youtube video and the system would reset all on its own. I tried a couple of Windows specific solutions, like changing power settings and trying to disable shutdown on system failure to no avail. I then wiped my drives clean and put a Linux OS on my SSD assuming this was a Windows specific issue, It seemed so at first, because everything ran fine. I could load up youtube, run multiple programs, etc and the system kept running. As stated above, it was not until I tried running certain games that problems arose.
When I noticed this issue again, I made sure all my drivers were up to date, monitored my hardware status, and most recently updated my bios, and the problem still persists. In my research in finding a solution to my problem, I noticed a lot of posts calling this a power issue. This made me skeptical because my machine was estimated to need about 366W (via CoolerMaster's online tool) and I went with a 450W PSU which I thought was plenty for my system, with extra room to spare. So I have the question, is 450W enough to power my system efficiently or is this problem rooted somewhere else? If this is a power related issue, what are all of my options when it comes to fixing this?
CPU- Ryzen 5 1400
GPU- XFX AMD RX 580 8gb
Mobo- MSI Tomahawk b350
Ram- Corsair Vengeance LPX 8GB (2x4gb) ddr4
PSU- BitFenix Whisper M 450W
Sandisk SSD and 1TB HDD
The problem:
Just built this machine and installed Ubuntu 16.04 on it and got my drivers installed. Everything runs fine under normal conditions, that is to say the temperatures stay around 30-40C and usage is normal. It is not until I load up certain games, in this case I attempted to test TF2 and Hollow Knight, that the system either restarts after a certain amount of time when gaming, which is the case with Hollow Knight, or (I think) the CPU shuts off when loading into a server in TF2. The only way of rebooting with the latter is to power off the power supply directly and switch it back on. I know my PC is plenty beefy to run these games perfectly fine so I don't understand why this is happening. Something that may be worth noting is that I can run Minecraft perfectly for any amount of time without resets happening, but that may be because it was downloaded though the Ubuntu Software application and not from a 3rd party application like Steam.
Quick backstory with this machine. I had Win10 installed prior and the restarting issue was much more pronounced. When this issue first occurred, it was when I was trying to install my drivers on Win10, and the system would just restart in the middle of instillation, so I wasn't able to do much. All it would take was a youtube video and the system would reset all on its own. I tried a couple of Windows specific solutions, like changing power settings and trying to disable shutdown on system failure to no avail. I then wiped my drives clean and put a Linux OS on my SSD assuming this was a Windows specific issue, It seemed so at first, because everything ran fine. I could load up youtube, run multiple programs, etc and the system kept running. As stated above, it was not until I tried running certain games that problems arose.
When I noticed this issue again, I made sure all my drivers were up to date, monitored my hardware status, and most recently updated my bios, and the problem still persists. In my research in finding a solution to my problem, I noticed a lot of posts calling this a power issue. This made me skeptical because my machine was estimated to need about 366W (via CoolerMaster's online tool) and I went with a 450W PSU which I thought was plenty for my system, with extra room to spare. So I have the question, is 450W enough to power my system efficiently or is this problem rooted somewhere else? If this is a power related issue, what are all of my options when it comes to fixing this?
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