Hi! I bought in June 2013 a PC made custom, I chose the parts. The problem is one that I can't resolve... and this drives me crazy... When I play some games, usually very graphic intensive games like Far Cry 3, Crysis 3 ... but also less intensive as Fallout 3 or NFS the RUN, the PC simply shuts down and I can't turn it on... In fact I can only can turn it back on if I unplug it from power socket wait for like 10-20 seconds, plug it again and power it on... More rare are the cases when it restarts... I tried a lot of things, i sent the video card in service, they said they tasted it for like 4 days.. and did not found any problems... also they replaced the gpu thermal paste and updated video card BIOS. I clean installed a lot of versions of nvidia drivers BETA and non- BETA. I tried resetting the gpu speed to normal gtx 660 with no factory overclock as the Golden Sample is a bit factory overclocked. I switched to WIN 8 from WIN7 , updated WIN8 to the last update, updated the motherboard drivers, update the BIOS from F2 to F5. I also tried a lot of stress tests like: Furmark -works ok, OCCT all test-ok, PRIME95, all tests - ok, PRIME 95+FURMARK- again ok, Unigine, 2 variants- both ok, 3dmark2011-ok, 3dmark2013-ok, Intel processor diagnostic tool- ok and now the problems, pcmark7- it shuts down or restart pc when the directx 9 test is starting and the Video card stability test program-it shuts down after a few minutes, maximum an hour....
And games: far cry 3 - shuts down and restarts after a few minutes or 1-2 hours, crysis 3 -the same as far cry3 but the problems happen more frequent, nfs the run- shuts down after like 3-4 hours and then more freqvently like crysis 3, fallout 3 - 7-9 hours of gaming, then constant shut down in the same place, nfs most wanted 2 - constant but rare shut downs , modern warfare 3- no shut downs, black ops- no shutdowns, black ops 2- shut down at the first second the game starts...., star trek 2013- shut down after a few seconds of gaming, far cry blood dragon- no shut downs but I didn't played much. That's all I can remember!!
Another strange thing is that in Cpuidhwmonitor when I stress test the cpu a lot the temperatures of cpu and mother board almost hit 100C and the gpu temperetature is almost 90C... but at least the GPU temperature is not confirmed by other software that shows like gpu-z log file that show max 71-72 C... And from Intel I got that if the cpu hit more then 76C the computer will power off anyway so there is no way that I had in that tests 100C! D:
And now my rig:
i5 4670 cpu 3400- normal, 3800- turbo, stock cooler
gigabyte b85-hd3 motherboard
8gb ram Corsair Vengeance 1600 - but i must set it to 1600 in bios; the default bios setting is 1330
GTX 660 Gainward Golden sample -has factory overclock
1 TB Western digital blue hdd
Inter -tech Energon 550W - quad rail PSU with 18A on every rail... I don't know much about PSUs, I bought it because it had a good performance/price ratio... I don't know about its reliability, it might be the source of the problem as I don't find no way to test it or find if it does its job properly....:|
Please help! You are my lost hope until I send the whole PC in service or I get mad and throw it off the window!!
And games: far cry 3 - shuts down and restarts after a few minutes or 1-2 hours, crysis 3 -the same as far cry3 but the problems happen more frequent, nfs the run- shuts down after like 3-4 hours and then more freqvently like crysis 3, fallout 3 - 7-9 hours of gaming, then constant shut down in the same place, nfs most wanted 2 - constant but rare shut downs , modern warfare 3- no shut downs, black ops- no shutdowns, black ops 2- shut down at the first second the game starts...., star trek 2013- shut down after a few seconds of gaming, far cry blood dragon- no shut downs but I didn't played much. That's all I can remember!!
Another strange thing is that in Cpuidhwmonitor when I stress test the cpu a lot the temperatures of cpu and mother board almost hit 100C and the gpu temperetature is almost 90C... but at least the GPU temperature is not confirmed by other software that shows like gpu-z log file that show max 71-72 C... And from Intel I got that if the cpu hit more then 76C the computer will power off anyway so there is no way that I had in that tests 100C! D:
And now my rig:
i5 4670 cpu 3400- normal, 3800- turbo, stock cooler
gigabyte b85-hd3 motherboard
8gb ram Corsair Vengeance 1600 - but i must set it to 1600 in bios; the default bios setting is 1330
GTX 660 Gainward Golden sample -has factory overclock
1 TB Western digital blue hdd
Inter -tech Energon 550W - quad rail PSU with 18A on every rail... I don't know much about PSUs, I bought it because it had a good performance/price ratio... I don't know about its reliability, it might be the source of the problem as I don't find no way to test it or find if it does its job properly....:|
Please help! You are my lost hope until I send the whole PC in service or I get mad and throw it off the window!!
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