Let me explain for start.....
My rig is this:
-Motherboard: ASUS P7H55-M/USB3
-CPU: Xeon X3450 2.67Ghz (not overclocked, stock settings with Intel's stock cooler)
-RAM: 2x4gb Kingston 1333hz
-GPU: Sapphire RX470D Platinum 4GB
-PSU: RealPower EcoSilent 600W 80+ Bronze
-Storage: SSD Silicon Power 256GB (i think is A55)
-System: Win10 PRO 20H2 OS build 19042.844
I use it normally nothing special like rendering or stuff like that. Just some gaming and such. Everything worked like a charm for like almost a year,and all of a sudden i got random freezes (only in PUBG at first). Screen goes black, you hear that buzzing sound since game hang in certain place and you can't do anything but restart the PC. At first checking if there are some updates (for windows and GPU) would fix it for several days. Then the problem will come back again. After a while the freezes started happening more and more often (but only in PUBG, since i play other "high-end" games which can get a PC at bigger load like Sekiro, Witcher 3, Guilty Gear Xrd, Little Nightmares) so i thought maybe theres something with my SSD. So i did everythink that i can with it... the usual stuff. Optimize it, check for disc errors,registry errors, missing system files, power menagment but the damn thing didn't stop. In fact after a while, it started happening in other games, where i can't play more than 30-60 seconds. So i started testing everything..... My Gpu was gaining some heat (like 85c in load). Changed the thermal paste, thermal pads, clean her up so now she is at steady 38-50 something max. Changed Processors thermal paste just in case it never got hot but why not, and nothing fixed the crashing. So i thought maybe some drivers are colliding (usually HD audio drivers can get some problems, since i was experiencing crashes ONLY in gaming where they are used mostly). And in the end i formated SSD and installed a new clean copy of Windows 10 and nothing fixed it until today.
In power menagement i played around with Processor Minimum and Maxiumum States and now the damn thing works.......
My minimum processor state is at 30% and maximum at 40% and that's the ONLY way it works without crashing.
Of course this is not a solution since i lost many frames and loads in games so i wanna know where the problem could be......PSU and CPU are my two biggest suspects (since i tested RAM's with memory diagnostics, swapped places, making sure they are firmly installed....the usual thing)
Can anyone specify what is actually happening...is my CPU failing or my PSU, so i could maybe replace one or the other (it's kinda hard to find someone who has a spare part or willing to remove it from their rig to give me to test it, so if anyone knows how can i make sure where exactly to look at it would be very halpful)
THX in advance for the answer and sorry for my little bad english, i hope you understand.
My rig is this:
-Motherboard: ASUS P7H55-M/USB3
-CPU: Xeon X3450 2.67Ghz (not overclocked, stock settings with Intel's stock cooler)
-RAM: 2x4gb Kingston 1333hz
-GPU: Sapphire RX470D Platinum 4GB
-PSU: RealPower EcoSilent 600W 80+ Bronze
-Storage: SSD Silicon Power 256GB (i think is A55)
-System: Win10 PRO 20H2 OS build 19042.844
I use it normally nothing special like rendering or stuff like that. Just some gaming and such. Everything worked like a charm for like almost a year,and all of a sudden i got random freezes (only in PUBG at first). Screen goes black, you hear that buzzing sound since game hang in certain place and you can't do anything but restart the PC. At first checking if there are some updates (for windows and GPU) would fix it for several days. Then the problem will come back again. After a while the freezes started happening more and more often (but only in PUBG, since i play other "high-end" games which can get a PC at bigger load like Sekiro, Witcher 3, Guilty Gear Xrd, Little Nightmares) so i thought maybe theres something with my SSD. So i did everythink that i can with it... the usual stuff. Optimize it, check for disc errors,registry errors, missing system files, power menagment but the damn thing didn't stop. In fact after a while, it started happening in other games, where i can't play more than 30-60 seconds. So i started testing everything..... My Gpu was gaining some heat (like 85c in load). Changed the thermal paste, thermal pads, clean her up so now she is at steady 38-50 something max. Changed Processors thermal paste just in case it never got hot but why not, and nothing fixed the crashing. So i thought maybe some drivers are colliding (usually HD audio drivers can get some problems, since i was experiencing crashes ONLY in gaming where they are used mostly). And in the end i formated SSD and installed a new clean copy of Windows 10 and nothing fixed it until today.
In power menagement i played around with Processor Minimum and Maxiumum States and now the damn thing works.......
My minimum processor state is at 30% and maximum at 40% and that's the ONLY way it works without crashing.
Of course this is not a solution since i lost many frames and loads in games so i wanna know where the problem could be......PSU and CPU are my two biggest suspects (since i tested RAM's with memory diagnostics, swapped places, making sure they are firmly installed....the usual thing)
Can anyone specify what is actually happening...is my CPU failing or my PSU, so i could maybe replace one or the other (it's kinda hard to find someone who has a spare part or willing to remove it from their rig to give me to test it, so if anyone knows how can i make sure where exactly to look at it would be very halpful)
THX in advance for the answer and sorry for my little bad english, i hope you understand.