Mr.N3rd

thanks @Jasun & @Crunchy Dragon, Im going to pick up some Arctic Silver 5 From BB tonight and some Isopropyl Alcohol so I can clean it correctly, I will report back with results

So Here is my question, I have taken Notice that my CPU Runs around 40C at idle and Hitting A peak of 78C-80C Under load in Ghost Recon Wildland's. Its Cooled by a NZXT Kraken X62 (240mm Rad). It seems these Temps are a Little High for it being water cooled. Can anyone Confirm? Also The Room Was at 84F or 29C when these temp were recorded. I want to OC but I really don't want to go Over 90C and I don't think that's possible. One note, When I installed the X62, the tube seemed to be pushing on the Corsair Vengeance RGB DDR4 Ram, Im thinking its possible that the Kraken isnt seating properly and that I need to turn the cooler 1/4 Clockwise to allow the tubes to exit on the top or bottom. But if the temps seems OK for stock clock then I dont want to mess with it.. Thanks for any Guidance.

So I just bought a Samsung 850 EVO M.2 2280 500GB (MZ-N5E500BW) and Im coming from a PNY 240 GB 2.5" SSD. I have a couple questions about the upgrade.... 1) Should I enable Intel Rapid Storage? 2) Should I reinstall Windows 10? (Depending on the answer to the previous question, because I do not currently have IRST enabled) Any help is appreciated!

Sorry for the Delay and thank you @Alexsolo & @Gawron10001 for you responses, Needless to say I Ended up testing with my Wifes PSU on my pc and Everything Worked so I RMA'd my 6 Month Old PSU and Bought a used one off CL for use and backup while RMA was getting shipped. Thanks again and I hope this conclusion helps someone in the Future. Also I would like to add that I did Try and change PCIe Slots and I also tried different RAM incase that was the issue, as you can imagine this didnt resolve the issue but the PSU did

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Did you use Memtest for testing the ram or another program? I know you said ramtest showed no errors but have you tried running a different set of Ram? It sounds like a ram issue i had once before. Random onset studders and poor overall performance.

Did you have these problems before the overclock?

FWIW I contacted Microsoft once about an activation issue and told them i had a HDD failure and they walked me though resetting the registry to get it to activate. Might try calling Microsoft. Just a thought also if you need a new key Kinguin sells them for $28

Random Question, Did you modify the bios settings at all? Also What kind of PCI Cards do you have? I only ask because i remember on one of my other MOBO that If i had to many PCI Lanes in use it would disable some of the USB 3.0 Ports. I understand that PCI is north bridge and USB is South Bridge but maybe this could help

Well I would format but It shows the white bar even before the bios splash screen shows. So that would mean that Windows has no part in this problem unless my reasoning is wrong. So Narrowing down to either Hardware or Bios. Before this happened i didn't change anything as far as hardware, software or settings in the bios. So I know its something that has failed.

Thanks for the quick response! I tried the GPU in my Other PC and it ran Fine, Did yours show similar results? I have contacted ASUS for RMA but I dont want to send it off if its not the culprit.

(This is an image i found on google that has the same white bar, I didnt think to take a pic when it happened. I do not own any rights to this image) Okay so I have been Lurking on the forums for a while. Never had to post tho. Here is my Problem: I was Playing Metal Gear Solid: The Phantom Pain for around 8 hours and all the sudden I got black screens on both monitors and my GPU fan spooled up to 100% and never came back. I did hear all the sounds from the game so I know the system was still up. I hit the Power button to do a soft power down and the system shut down on its own. I hit the power button 4 seconds after the shutdown and I got a 1” white bar across the screen horizontally, I checked my wife’s computer and it said that my PC had signed in so that tells me that it still booted into windows even though I couldn’t see anything. I shut it down once more and waited 10 minutes and started it up, No problems until I ran the Rise of the Tomb Raider benchmark, and sure enough 2 minutes in, Black screen and GPU 100%’ What I have tried: I swapped my 1080ti with my wife’s 980ti and ran the Tomb Raider Benchmark again. Her PC finished and hit 60 FPS on ultra, My PC got 3 Minutes in and Black Screened again. I removed the GFX card completely and ran off the Onboard Video and it booted fine no issues but I didn’t run any benchmarks to prove it wasn’t faulty. I contacted ASUS about the GFX card first then about the MOBO, they gave me a checklist and refused to acknowledge me after I replied with the results of the list I have read countless posts on here and toms about similar issues but none of the systems mentioned were in any way similar or showed any solutions. I have seen a post on here about a possible PSU issue so I’m Checking that tonight with my wife’s PSU All thermals were normal when issue occurred (Registered via HWmonitor). The Corsair Link showed Around 350W used when the issue occurred. Prior to this I played 13hrs of Tomb Raider straight without issues. Specs (all components were bought in May of this year): Windows 10 Pro 64bit 7700k ASUS STRIX Z270E Motherboard ASUS STRIX GTX 1080TI Corsair Vengeance 3000 32gb 8*4 Corsair HX750i PSU PNY 240gb SSD Here is the Full system Spec PcPartPicker List