System Total Freeze (NEED HELP)

[WesPlaysGuitar]

So I've just built my first PC ever. Pretty excited about it. It actually posts and runs smoothly at first glance. I start to download all of my games and what not onto it overnight and go to bed. So the next day I go to play League of Legends, a relatively low demand game and use OBS to record the gameplay just as a test. About ten to fifteen minutes in, the computer freezes completely, requiring a hard power off and reboot. This phenomenon continues during gaming, whether it be League, BF4, 7 Days, anything requiring moderate load. However, just browsing, it's never frozen. I've updated drivers, everything I can think of to no avail. Please help.

Specs:
AMD FX 8350 8 Core @ 4.0 GHZ
ASUS M5A99FX Pro R2.0 Mobo
MSI Radeon R9 290 Gaming Edition 4GB
Samsung 840 Evo 250 GB SSD
Corsair H60 Liquid Cooling
WD Caviar Blue 1TB HDD
Corsair CX600M PSU
Windows 8.1 Pro 64 Bit

 

[WesPlaysGuitar]

Well I hope throwing money at a new PSU will resolve the problem... Literally tonnes of people have this problem and most are resolved by Tweaks, VBIOS Update or RMA. Did you try what I said before in MSI afterburner? Settings > General TAB > Enable both 'Force constant voltage' and 'Disable ULPS', then restart. BTW when watching YouTube videos, do you get random freezes then too? Hardware Acceleration has a hard time working well with that card. Well anyway, don't get a 1000w honestly lol you don't need that much. A high quality 750w with enough amps on the 12v rail will be more than enough for any single card.

I've tried tweaking most everything. The only thing that constantly fixes the problem is dropping the memory and power limit settings. I've enabled Forced Voltage and disabled ULPS and still freezes on completely stock specs. I'm fairly certain it's a power problem.

 

[WesPlaysGuitar]

Is anything overclocked, including the CPU? Try going into Catalyst control center and disabling Overdrive for both the CPU and GPU. No graphics or processor overdrive enabled. See if it still does it. You really don't need a 1000w PSU unless you plan to add a second GPU at some point. A good 650-750w unit would be fine. I'd highly recommend this:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Power Supply: EVGA 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($108.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $108.99
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-01-10 18:45 EST-0500


OR this:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Power Supply: EVGA 750W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($74.98 @ OutletPC)
Total: $74.98
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-01-10 18:45 EST-0500

I completely disabled AMD Overdrive and it will barely run Furmark for a few seconds before completely freezing. Thank you for the links btw.

 

[Rukeith]

Well, I hope a new PSU fixes the problem. If not well, GPU it is =). Nothing worse than getting a new GPU and not being able to use it properly, had this problem during Christmas until I replaced it. Good luck to you.

 

[WesPlaysGuitar]

Well, I hope a new PSU fixes the problem. If not well, GPU it is =). Nothing worse than getting a new GPU and not being able to use it properly, had this problem during Christmas until I replaced it. Good luck to you.

Thank you. Unfortunately, as you said, if getting a proper sized PSU doesn't fix the problem, I'm bound for the RMA process which should be tremendously fun.

 

[Darkbreeze]

Fortunately it's not a waste either way. You really do want a better unit for use with that GPU so either way you are ahead of the game.

 

[WesPlaysGuitar]

Fortunately it's not a waste either way. You really do want a better unit for use with that GPU so either way you are ahead of the game.

Exactly. Plus I believe I have someone that could purchase my old one considering it's a perfectly usable PSU for lesser demanding rigs. I just hope this fixes it as I really want to avoid the RMA process.

 

[Darkbreeze]

Believe me, I understand.

 

[WesPlaysGuitar]

Believe me, I understand.

After installing the new PSU and running furmark for 10 minutes at full settings I believe we've solved the problem. I'll keep posted on this thread in case anything goes wrong but I ran at full load, no underclock, for ten minutes with no hiccup. Minimum FPS 120. 😀

 

[Darkbreeze]

So it seems my first suspicion was correct. Whoop whoop. I'm bad. Nah, just kidding. Glad you got it going right. Sounds like it's smooth sailing from here out hopefully.

 

[iamlegend]

listen to darkbreeze, he is a cat!

 

[Darkbreeze]

You're funny bud. Heh.