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Whats up Guys,

Been having a weird issue with my PC lately.

When ever i game, my PC would switch itself off and boot or restart itself when gaming, with no warnings like bsod etc... For normal daily use the pc works 100% with no problems but only when gaming, within the first 20 minutes, it will reboot itself.

So i have carefully monitor the temps and everything seems fine and i have not seen any graphical artifacts etc.
CPU idle 25-28C,
Under load - 40-55c,
GPU idl - 28-30c
GPU under load - 50- 60c

i have also reset all my clock settings (CPU/ RAM/ GPU) to default, tested my ram with memtest for about 10 passes with no errors. I also formatted my PC completely and reinstall win 10 with latest nvidia drivers with no luck, also revert to older drivers.

Ive got a feeling that it could be the psu but not sure.

Any assistance to narrow down what could be causing this issue would be much appreciated. :)

Specs are in my signature.
 
When you say no BSOD....did you actually turn automatic restarts on BSOD off?
 
Whats up Guys,

Been having a weird issue with my PC lately.

When ever i game, my PC would switch itself off and boot or restart itself when gaming, with no warnings like bsod etc... For normal daily use the pc works 100% with no problems but only when gaming, within the first 20 minutes, it will reboot itself.

So i have carefully monitor the temps and everything seems fine and i have not seen any graphical artifacts etc.
CPU idle 25-28C,
Under load - 40-55c,
GPU idl - 28-30c
GPU under load - 50- 60c

i have also reset all my clock settings (CPU/ RAM/ GPU) to default, tested my ram with memtest for about 10 passes with no errors. I also formatted my PC completely and reinstall win 10 with latest nvidia drivers with no luck, also revert to older drivers.

Ive got a feeling that it could be the psu but not sure.

Any assistance to narrow down what could be causing this issue would be much appreciated. :)

Specs are in my signature.

Check all connections to the PSU first. My PC was crashing constantly at random points and I figured out that the cable to the GPU was loose.

In your case however, I believe it is the PSU. Where are you located?

I have a PSU you can test with if you want and I’m in Cape Town. It definitely works 200 thousand%.
 
Check all connections to the PSU first. My PC was crashing constantly at random points and I figured out that the cable to the GPU was loose.

In your case however, I believe it is the PSU. Where are you located?

I have a PSU you can test with if you want and I’m in Cape Town. It definitely works 200 thousand%.

Hey man, i am based in Worcester, which is about a 70km drive from Cape Town. I did remove the gpu reseat everything and strangely i could game for a little longer, but sadly it did crashed after 30min again.

So i have test my system with prime for about an hour, made my cpu reach 80c and no crashes. Fired up farcry 5 after the test and with 15min the PC switched off and boot itself again. (like i said no bsod, no freezes, no graphical artifacts etc. and auto restart is off in my settings)
 
PSU guess again here.

Although, I had a similar problem a while ago. Sometimes blue screen, sometimes just "X has quit enexpectedly" errors.

Bought a new PSU, no change.

Ended up dismantling the entire PC. Changed PCIe slots for the GPU, reseated RAM, and found that thermal paste had somehow made its way onto a couple of the CPU socket pins. Cleaned them off gently and reseated CPU.

Been running like a dream ever since. These problems can be related to anything. There is nothing worse than intermittent problems.

Cheers :)
 
so I also dismantled all the components yesterday, swapped the pci-e cables with different ones and played some division and farcry 5 yesterday for more than 4 hours straight with no restarts and everything went smooth. Will test again today and hopefully it wont crash again.

Will report back. Thanks for the inputs so far.
 
What's up gents, just an update. Seems like the issue is solved. I have not had a single crash or restart since my last post on Monday. It looks like swapping the pci-e connectors with different ones seems to have solve the problem for now, but I'm still going to get a new PSU anyway.

Thanks for the inputs and assistance :)
 

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