Hi guys, whenever I play a cpu&gpu intensive game my pc restarts. For example I played DOOM and I didn't have any problems with that game, but when I installed Mad Max, my pc restarts right after the cinematic intro every time. Another game I've had problems with was Black Mesa - I managed to plough through most of the game, but there were certain areas in Xen where my pc would just restart and restart. Same thing in VR, some games I can just play without having any issues whatsoever, but with Arizona Sunshine in certain parts of the game - it just restarts, same thing with VTOL VR and some other VR games. One thing I found of particular interest was the fact that my pc tends to restart whenever certain events initiate ingame that I think are CPU bound - e.g. NPC's arriving from somewhere or loading a VTOL session with more NPC planes than usual.
I ran synthetic benchmarks, trying to figure out what the problem was. I first fully disassembled my pc, cleaned ALL the dust out, PSU included, changed thermal paste from both CPU and GPU - Arctic Mx4, installed a fresh copy of windows 10 with all the latest drivers & all that good stuff.
Here's the weird thing with my pc - when I only run Furmark to stress test the GPU, it never restarts or crashes, I've ran it up to 30 minutes 3 times without anything happening or glitching out. Afterwards, I ran Prime95 on all the cores for about thirty minutes 3 times - once again, nothing bad happened.
But when I load and start Prime95 and immediately start stress testing the GPU with Furmark, after 5 seconds - 2 minutes, my pc restarts. I did this experiment 4 times - same result. It never crashes or freezez - it always restarts.
The very weird thing about it is if I first start FurMark instead of Prime95, I can stress test the system without it crashing or restarting - tried this twice, once I ran the stress test for ten minutes before deciding to stop, and a second time it froze my pc - but it didn't restart. I then proceeded with an underclock on all cores of the CPU to 3000 Mhz, and apparently at this frequency there wasn't any problems when stress testing simultaneously of the cpu&gpu. Afterwards, I thought to go back to 4000Mhz, but deactivate one module of the CPU (Cores 7&8). In this particular configuration, when I stress test, the pc restarts. I always had HWMonitor on during all tests, the temps have been in check all the time.
I also ran memtest - there haven't been any errors reported.
My configuration is : Fx 8350 Stock clocks CPU cooled with a Hyper 212 EVO , 2x8 Gb 1866Mhz RAM, a R9 290 Tri-X stock clock, Asus m5A97 r2.0 motherboard with up-to-date BIOS, a 1TB WD 7200 rpm Hdd, and 2 120 gb SSDs, all powered by a Corsair semi-modular 750w bronze rated PSU. My computer is ~ 8 to 9 years old.
Can you guys give me a solution or a hint on what exactly is causing my system to behave like this ?
Thanks !
I ran synthetic benchmarks, trying to figure out what the problem was. I first fully disassembled my pc, cleaned ALL the dust out, PSU included, changed thermal paste from both CPU and GPU - Arctic Mx4, installed a fresh copy of windows 10 with all the latest drivers & all that good stuff.
Here's the weird thing with my pc - when I only run Furmark to stress test the GPU, it never restarts or crashes, I've ran it up to 30 minutes 3 times without anything happening or glitching out. Afterwards, I ran Prime95 on all the cores for about thirty minutes 3 times - once again, nothing bad happened.
But when I load and start Prime95 and immediately start stress testing the GPU with Furmark, after 5 seconds - 2 minutes, my pc restarts. I did this experiment 4 times - same result. It never crashes or freezez - it always restarts.
The very weird thing about it is if I first start FurMark instead of Prime95, I can stress test the system without it crashing or restarting - tried this twice, once I ran the stress test for ten minutes before deciding to stop, and a second time it froze my pc - but it didn't restart. I then proceeded with an underclock on all cores of the CPU to 3000 Mhz, and apparently at this frequency there wasn't any problems when stress testing simultaneously of the cpu&gpu. Afterwards, I thought to go back to 4000Mhz, but deactivate one module of the CPU (Cores 7&8). In this particular configuration, when I stress test, the pc restarts. I always had HWMonitor on during all tests, the temps have been in check all the time.
I also ran memtest - there haven't been any errors reported.
My configuration is : Fx 8350 Stock clocks CPU cooled with a Hyper 212 EVO , 2x8 Gb 1866Mhz RAM, a R9 290 Tri-X stock clock, Asus m5A97 r2.0 motherboard with up-to-date BIOS, a 1TB WD 7200 rpm Hdd, and 2 120 gb SSDs, all powered by a Corsair semi-modular 750w bronze rated PSU. My computer is ~ 8 to 9 years old.
Can you guys give me a solution or a hint on what exactly is causing my system to behave like this ?
Thanks !