Psu heating up(i assume)

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ok, sometimes my psu fans get real loud. its rpm's pick up intensly and sometimes my pc resets or freezes. it happens maybe once a week. how concerned should i be? will it fry anything? i game maybe 3 hrs a night, so these are not hardcore sessions.
 
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It's a pretty broad error, unfortunately. This error is usually related to drivers or the PSU. Some good troubleshooting threads:
1. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sr-Cyrl-CS/w7itproperf/thread/9e71f600-7c62-4869-8236-964e93d17936
2. http://www.sevenforums.com/crashes-debugging/1194-windows-7-crash-2.html
3. Microsoft Support: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2028504

If you've already updated all of your drivers, then try swapping in a known good PSU and seeing if you get the shutdown.

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once i started having problems i took everything back to stock. so my ram is 1333 and 2500k is at 3.3. it really started once i put watercooling in and hooked up logitech 5500 5.1 surround.
 
Modify the restart behavior for the computer. To do this, follow these steps:
- Right-click My Computer, and then click Properties.
- Click Advanced system settings.
- Click the Advanced tab.
- In the Startup and Recovery section, click Settings.
- Click to clear the Automatically restart check box.

This will let you get the BSOD when your computer reboots/shuts down. To check for errors on previous shut downs you can check the system event log:
- Click the Start button .
- In the Search box, type Event Viewer and hit enter
- In the list of results, double-click Event Viewer.
 

What is being water cooled, CPU and/or GPUs?

If the graphics cards are still being air cooled are you sure it's not the graphics cards fans that are ramped up?
 

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everythings on water so its definitly the psu
 

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im sure its a dumb question but do motherboards or cpus have drivers that ever need an update?
 

The motherboard has various chipsets on it that require drivers.

Sometimes you may be able to get more recent driver version for your ASRock P67 Extreme4 for the following chipset devices than what ASRock has on their website by going directly to the chipset manufacturers' website:

Intel Cougar Point Chipset
Realtek High Definition Audio
Realtek LAN
Marvell SATA3 Controller
Etron USB 3.0 Controller
 

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so i did what you said. while playing rage it restarted again and i checked event viewer. under critical it said event id 41 and source kernel-power so what does that mean? the date and time matches the restart
 

From Microsoft Support:
The kernel power Event ID: 41 error is generated under different scenarios where the computer is shut down or restarts unexpectedly. When the computer that is running Windows is started, a check is performed to determine whether the computer was cleanly shut down. If the computer was not shut down correctly, a Kernel Power Event 41 message is generated. In the following three scenarios, an Event 41 may be generated.

An event 41 is used to report that something unexpected happened that prevents Windows from shutting down correctly. Therefore, there may not always be enough information to explicitly define what happened. To determine what may have happened and to identify a potential resolution, it is important to know what the computer was doing at the time just before the event occurred.

If event 41 is logged because power to the computer was interrupted, you may want to consider obtaining an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) such as a battery backup power supply. Maybe an underpowered or failing power supply caused this behavior. For example, if you added RAM or additional devices or hard disks when this problem began, the power supply may be a cause of the problem.
Could be caused the CoolerMaster Silent Pro 1000W's crappy voltage regulation.
 
It's a pretty broad error, unfortunately. This error is usually related to drivers or the PSU. Some good troubleshooting threads:
1. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sr-Cyrl-CS/w7itproperf/thread/9e71f600-7c62-4869-8236-964e93d17936
2. http://www.sevenforums.com/crashes-debugging/1194-windows-7-crash-2.html
3. Microsoft Support: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2028504

If you've already updated all of your drivers, then try swapping in a known good PSU and seeing if you get the shutdown.
 
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