Hi all,
Last year I moved to Papua New Guinea. Took my pc with me (took it apart and rebuild it here). Severe lack of computer related stores here so everything has to come from Australia, so can't run to the store and pick new parts up.
Build my pc ~5 years ago (spec below) and never had any issues. A few months ago my PC started to turn itself off when gaming, normally within ~10 minutes and if I try to game after rebooting then, a couple of minutes. This varies by how intense the game is. There is a voltage fluctuation problem in this country where voltage can drop significantly. I bought a UPS the other day but apparently I can't use my surge protector extended cable with it (says so in the description), and the nearest plug next to my pc of course isn't working and the electrician hasn't decided to turn up yet. When it's plugged in the UPS when gaming goes haywire after about 10 minutes and everything (including monitor, sound) turns off (this is not the case when it's not plugged into UPS, when only PC turns off.
Personally I'm suspecting thermal paste gone bad, as the only one I could find was some from a chinese shop and I never heard of the brand. When I re-assembled my system when I moved here it worked fine and I was gaming for hours. I have the Evo 212 cooler which I'm sure many of you know is a PITA to installed when not taking the entire mobo out of the case. I re-applied thermal paste the other day, cooler sliding all over the place when applying but problem persisted.
Event viewer shows Event ID 41 - Kernel Power but no additional details.
CPU when gaming is around 53-54c so well outside of thermal shutdown range.
Spec:
6600K
Z170a Sli Plus mobo
1080ti Zotac
Coolermaster 550w PSU (I know it's marginal but I used to run OC on this, now took OC off and even the turbo off so instead of 4.1ghz I'm at 3.5...same issue)
16gb ram
When I play a game like space engineers or insurgency Sandstorm it goes off very quickly. An old game (so not intense at all) like F1 Challenge (from 2002!) I never have any issues. Sometimes at night it switched off but I can't tell if it's due to short powercut or the recurring problem during some intense background activity (virus scan or whatever).
Any help is appreciated.
Frankly if I have to order new CPU paste I'll order a new cooler (AIO so easy to mount) and a new PSU I think.
Last year I moved to Papua New Guinea. Took my pc with me (took it apart and rebuild it here). Severe lack of computer related stores here so everything has to come from Australia, so can't run to the store and pick new parts up.
Build my pc ~5 years ago (spec below) and never had any issues. A few months ago my PC started to turn itself off when gaming, normally within ~10 minutes and if I try to game after rebooting then, a couple of minutes. This varies by how intense the game is. There is a voltage fluctuation problem in this country where voltage can drop significantly. I bought a UPS the other day but apparently I can't use my surge protector extended cable with it (says so in the description), and the nearest plug next to my pc of course isn't working and the electrician hasn't decided to turn up yet. When it's plugged in the UPS when gaming goes haywire after about 10 minutes and everything (including monitor, sound) turns off (this is not the case when it's not plugged into UPS, when only PC turns off.
Personally I'm suspecting thermal paste gone bad, as the only one I could find was some from a chinese shop and I never heard of the brand. When I re-assembled my system when I moved here it worked fine and I was gaming for hours. I have the Evo 212 cooler which I'm sure many of you know is a PITA to installed when not taking the entire mobo out of the case. I re-applied thermal paste the other day, cooler sliding all over the place when applying but problem persisted.
Event viewer shows Event ID 41 - Kernel Power but no additional details.
CPU when gaming is around 53-54c so well outside of thermal shutdown range.
Spec:
6600K
Z170a Sli Plus mobo
1080ti Zotac
Coolermaster 550w PSU (I know it's marginal but I used to run OC on this, now took OC off and even the turbo off so instead of 4.1ghz I'm at 3.5...same issue)
16gb ram
When I play a game like space engineers or insurgency Sandstorm it goes off very quickly. An old game (so not intense at all) like F1 Challenge (from 2002!) I never have any issues. Sometimes at night it switched off but I can't tell if it's due to short powercut or the recurring problem during some intense background activity (virus scan or whatever).
Any help is appreciated.
Frankly if I have to order new CPU paste I'll order a new cooler (AIO so easy to mount) and a new PSU I think.