- Dec 13, 2023
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After running various system tests and doing a total of 15 or more hours of researching the issue I am 99% certain it's my PSU.
My main list of reasons,
1: when my pc freezes the fans begin spinning uncontrollably due to faulty power modulation
2: There are no event logs when I have a system crash -major sign of a psu failure
3: I've gone through every driver reset and update, rolled back and restored my windows image to the most recent one, with a clean installation, performed successful CPU stress tests and DRAM tests, including replacement of the DRAM sticks, leading to the GPU and power supply.
No overheating issues according to my monitoring, max GPU temps at 84C, max cpu temps at 50C and max motherboard temps are at 45C so it's unlikely to be thermal issues. the gpu is showing no graphical fidelity issues as well as every game will run nearly perfectly, with some underperformance due to what feels like DING ding ding under-powering. My overall knowledge, capability and reasoning has lead me to the educated hypothesis that my PSU never worked properly to begin with, as it was always under too high of a load, 95% to be exact, 15% above maximum recommended power load on a supply unit, and has done this since I built it. Now I'm a bit tired of this issue as it becomes repetitive upon certain intervals of time, some days it will crash several times, then I'll go a month or so without any issues. This only happens during nvidia benchmarks and intensive next gen games. Though, I am not a tech, and I cannot 100% guarantee this is the issue without additional support or buying a new psu. Online calculators with my included peripherals say I'm at 95% load when 80 is recommended. Turned off any OC tuning that I had running as well.. Recommendations?
Specs:
3080 Ti FTW3 OC edition 405W draw at max with OC - powered with 2 8-Pin PCIe connectors and one 6+2-Pin PCIe connector
Ryzen 9 5900x
Samsung 980 1 TB
Samsung 980 Pro 2 TB
Trident Z Neo cl 16 3600 ddr4 16x2 - D.O.C.P. On
PSU - Corsair 850RM 2021 Ed. - Fully Modular - Supposedly using 95% at full load probably since half of its use is dedicated to the gpu alone
ASUS Tuff X570 motherboard/Plus Wi-Fi bios ver 4005
I already checked the only minidump file my pc has produced out of the numerous crashes, it was showing driver errors so I used the DDU tool and reset and rollback to the most recent stable version before these crashes really began being a persistant issue. This hasn't been as bad before as it is now, and it continously is crashing under load for about ten minutes. Today, thinking the problem may be fixed, I attempted to play the same games that have been providing issues for only a couple days now and again after about ten minutes in, the whole system crashes out and blackscreens with sound still running for a bit. My fans reset and my ram modules turn white, however I've run full scans on the modules too. I see, I've pretty much always had this error. Even with safemode DDU uninstallations and driver rollbacks. I've downloaded the driver from Dec 4 and it still done crashed...
My main list of reasons,
1: when my pc freezes the fans begin spinning uncontrollably due to faulty power modulation
2: There are no event logs when I have a system crash -major sign of a psu failure
3: I've gone through every driver reset and update, rolled back and restored my windows image to the most recent one, with a clean installation, performed successful CPU stress tests and DRAM tests, including replacement of the DRAM sticks, leading to the GPU and power supply.
No overheating issues according to my monitoring, max GPU temps at 84C, max cpu temps at 50C and max motherboard temps are at 45C so it's unlikely to be thermal issues. the gpu is showing no graphical fidelity issues as well as every game will run nearly perfectly, with some underperformance due to what feels like DING ding ding under-powering. My overall knowledge, capability and reasoning has lead me to the educated hypothesis that my PSU never worked properly to begin with, as it was always under too high of a load, 95% to be exact, 15% above maximum recommended power load on a supply unit, and has done this since I built it. Now I'm a bit tired of this issue as it becomes repetitive upon certain intervals of time, some days it will crash several times, then I'll go a month or so without any issues. This only happens during nvidia benchmarks and intensive next gen games. Though, I am not a tech, and I cannot 100% guarantee this is the issue without additional support or buying a new psu. Online calculators with my included peripherals say I'm at 95% load when 80 is recommended. Turned off any OC tuning that I had running as well.. Recommendations?
Specs:
3080 Ti FTW3 OC edition 405W draw at max with OC - powered with 2 8-Pin PCIe connectors and one 6+2-Pin PCIe connector
Ryzen 9 5900x
Samsung 980 1 TB
Samsung 980 Pro 2 TB
Trident Z Neo cl 16 3600 ddr4 16x2 - D.O.C.P. On
PSU - Corsair 850RM 2021 Ed. - Fully Modular - Supposedly using 95% at full load probably since half of its use is dedicated to the gpu alone
ASUS Tuff X570 motherboard/Plus Wi-Fi bios ver 4005
I already checked the only minidump file my pc has produced out of the numerous crashes, it was showing driver errors so I used the DDU tool and reset and rollback to the most recent stable version before these crashes really began being a persistant issue. This hasn't been as bad before as it is now, and it continously is crashing under load for about ten minutes. Today, thinking the problem may be fixed, I attempted to play the same games that have been providing issues for only a couple days now and again after about ten minutes in, the whole system crashes out and blackscreens with sound still running for a bit. My fans reset and my ram modules turn white, however I've run full scans on the modules too. I see, I've pretty much always had this error. Even with safemode DDU uninstallations and driver rollbacks. I've downloaded the driver from Dec 4 and it still done crashed...
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