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Just to close this out, I swapped the PSU with a 1000W one and ran some stability tests: Prime95 (Small FTTs) + Furmark (4k+8xMSAA) for 30 minutes, system was stable - 85 degrees max on the CPU, 70 on the GPU Cinebench R23, ~23k score with a maximum temp of 81 degrees on the CPU Intel XTU stress test w/ AVX2 for 30 minutes, max temp ~70 degrees and test passed. I also tried launching Diablo IV again and running around in one of the cities, system did not crash but not sure how reliable this quick test run was. In the BIOS I've capped both PL1 and PL2 to 181W (upped PL1 from 125W in my last tests) and set CPU Lite Load to Mode 2, as this is the configuration that maximized my Cinebench score; I'm thinking of dropping back down to Mode1 since temps were a few degrees lower across the board and the score in Cinebench was extremely close. With PL1 set to 181W the CPU seems to be constantly boosting to 5.1GHz on the P-cores, as opposed to it dropping down to 4.8/4.9GHz when the limit was set to 125W.

Seeing that while running Prime95 the CPU was getting pinned at 100 degrees celsius, I went down that rabbit hole. I found out that MSI motherboards by default leave PL1/PL2 uncapped and also have a "CPU lite load mode" that sets some overvoltage on the CPU. I capped PL1 and PL2 at Intel's specification (125/181W) and ran Prime95 again, and this time temps reached ~90 degrees while boosting and then settled around ~75 (which IMHO is still too high given my cooler). Unfortunately, running Furmark on top of Prime95 (with the GPU capped at 80% TDP) caused a new crash, so it seems that even with the CPU being bound to max 181W and the GPU capped at 80%, the combination of both causes the system to shut completely off. I'm pretty sure at this point the PSU must have degraded over time and it's not capable of handling both loads together - Everything seems stable during normal usage and when stressing the CPU or the GPU alone, but then crap hits the fan as soon as both are being hit at the same time (e.g. game, synthetic stress tests).

>Even assuming 295 is 80% of what the GPU would've otherwise used up, that'd be ~370W And this would already be 50W above the official TPD listed by nvidia. I see gigabyte has three revisions of my GPU listed (https://www.aorus.com/graphics-cards/GV-N3080AORUS-M-10GD-rev-10/Specification, https://www.aorus.com/graphics-cards/GV-N3080AORUS-M-10GD-rev-20/Specification, https://www.aorus.com/graphics-cards/GV-N3080AORUS-M-10GD-rev-30/Specification) I'm pretty sure mine is rev. 1, which lists a recommended PSU at 750W (and that must be why I settled on the one I have). I see however that both the other revisions list a recommended 850W, so I'm wondering if this is a known issue and I need to bump the PSU Wrong links, here are the revisions for my GPU: https://www.aorus.com/graphics-cards/GV-N3080GAMING-OC-10GD-rev-10/Specification https://www.aorus.com/graphics-cards/GV-N3080GAMING-10GD/Specification https://www.aorus.com/graphics-cards/GV-N3080GAMING-OC-10GD-rev-20/Specification They all list 750W as the recommended PSU

I tried capping the GPU at 80% power limit with the gigabyte utility and was able to get Diablo 4 to launch. I've left it running for a few minutes, no crash. from HWMonitor I see that max draw on the GPU was 295.12W and on the CPU 128.17W (so well below of 750 total). Even assuming 295 is 80% of what the GPU would've otherwise used up, that'd be ~370W, which together with the CPU would be barely ~500W. I doubt there's another 250W being drawn in the system (or that the GPU could have such a dramatic spike)

But then how come this has never happened before, including for a full week since the release of Diablo IV while playing that game?

>What are the system specs to include the PSU? Intel i5 13600k with a Noctua NH-D15 cooler MSI PRO Z790-P WIFI DDR4 motherboard 32 GB of DDR4 RAM @ 3200Mhz (Corsair Vengeance LPX) Gigabyte RTX 3080 (10GB VRAM) Corsair RM750 PSU >If you haven't played many intense games, Diablo 4 so far is no slouch I think I've played many comparably intense games since setting this system up. What comes to mind right now are Cyberpunk 2077, COD MW2, Elden Ring, Hogwarts Legacy as examples. >An easy way to test this for $0 is to lower the TDP of your graphics card to anywhere between 50-85% and see if you can at least play the game again I can definitely try this, but this would mean that the defective component is the PSU rather than the CPU, right?

Hey folks, I'm hitting the weirdest issue I've ever encountered on my PC and I really don't know what to do here: Been playing D4 since launch day without any issues, then a couple nights back while running a dungeon my PC suddenly turned off and restarted itself. At that point I went into the BIOS to check if any overheating had occurred, but the temps in the system were all averaging 60 °C. Then I tried logging back into Windows, but as soon as I entered my password the pc would turn off (hard turn off, not a soft reboot) and turn itself on again, rinse and repeat. I spent the night trying to troubleshoot but in the end I had to do a full recovery through the Windows troubleshooting options that you can access at boot time (both startup repair and roll back to a system restore point failed). After that I quickly reconfigured the bare bones apps I run on Windows and left the pc on for the whole night and day after. Yesterday, as soon as I tried starting Diablo again (think as soon as the blizzard logo comes up) the pc AGAIN turned completely off and then back on again. Same deal as the day before, no windows troubleshooting option works and as soon as I try logging in it turns off and on again. After I went through the recovery process again and tried to test Diablo, the PC quickly turned off and this time the crash loop got extremely more severe, where the system would have power for ~1s before shutting itself off again. During the day I tried a bunch of things, none of which worked, and I resigned myself to the idea that my CPU was dead (seeing that the debug LED on the motherboard for the CPU came on while the system had power). I started the RMA process with Intel to get it swapped, but then I just tried resetting the CMOS as a last attempt before pulling the CPU out and lo and behold the system came to life again. After that I updated my BIOS to the latest version and set everything up again, tested first without a GPU installed and ran Prime 95 (no problems) I then attached the GPU and ran Furmark, again no problem. I reinstalled Diablo 4, and as soon as I got to the character screen the PC turned off on its own once again. At the very least this time I'm not stuck in a crash loop and was able to get to the Event viewer in Windows, and this is what I found: Event with ID 41, Kernel-Power, at level Critical: The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. This error could be caused if the system stopped responding, crashed, or lost power unexpectedly. Right before that one there is another Kernel-Power event (at level informational) with ID 125, with the following contents: ACPI thermal zone \_TZ.TZ00 has been enumerated. _PSV = 0K _TC1 = 0 _TC2 = 0 _TSP = 0ms _AC0 = 353K _AC1 = 328K _AC2 = 323K _AC3 = 318K _AC4 = 313K _AC5 = 0K _AC6 = 0K _AC7 = 0K _AC8 = 0K _AC9 = 0K _CRT = 378K _HOT = 0K minimum throttle = 0 _CR3 = 0K I can guess this is related to temperatures, and all those 0s are kinda worrying me, but I cannot find anything that explains in detail what these values are supposed to be. I tried googling around and found other people who have their PC shutting off semi-randomly and also find some variation of this event in their Event Viewers, but none of the posts I found have a definitive answer as to what's going on. Unfortunately there appears to be no minidump in C:\Windows to explore the issue any further (I image that's because the system does a hard turn off). At this point I really don't know what I can do. Should I just go ahead with the RMA? Unfortunately I don't have another compatible mobo/CPU to test a different combination of hardware and single out the CPU being the culprit

This one seems to push it at 160mm like the Noctua you linked, so I think I would not risk buying it just to have to return it. The Freezer on the other hand seems a more reasonable choice; May I ask why you are recommending it? Is it just because of the cheaper price compared to the ones I originally linked or does it actually outperform them?

Hey everyone, I just upgraded my PC and installed a Ryzen 5 3600, currently using it with the stock cooler. For now I'm seeing temps ranging from 40ish to ~85 degrees, but I would like to upgrade the cooler to have it running cooler and possibly OC it a bit (either with Ryzen Master or my mobo's "game boost", nothing too crazy). My case is a mid-tower (Carbide 100R) and on the specifications the max height of the CPU cooler is listed as 150mm, hence I'm looking for something under that. Right now I've been looking at the Noctua NH-U9S as my first choice, but I've also read good things about the Cryorig H7 and the Dark Rock TF, but this last one in particular I am not considering too much because I would prefer a cooler pushing air out of the back of the case. Do you guys have any other recommendations? Does someone have my same 150mm limit and have you found a cooler you are happy with? P.S.: I was also looking at the tier list stickied on the forum, but unfortunately the height of each cooler is not reported and I am still working through it, but the Noctua I linked seems to be the best one according to that list that fits in my case

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It's driving me nuts. Further, I often use it to study so if I am in quiet room with other people it starts driving everyone else nuts as well. I can't find any replacements online however, at least not for my model, and most fans I find as replacements for laptop come in a metal enclosing. Would I be able to remove the enclosing and just grab the 80mm fan if I were to buy one?

Hi everyone, Recently I noticed a "smudge" appeared on my laptop screen, where a small portion of the screen appears to leak more light from the backlight when displaying white color. After some research I though it could be the polarizing filter failing, but I am not sure if that is the case since it is a wild assumption on my part. I'm attaching some pictures to hopefully showcase the problem, but it is very hard to catch on camera. If it is indeed the polarizing filter (and even if it isn't), is my only option to replace the panel itself?

Hey guys, So it's been a few days now that one of the two fans in my laptop has been making a strange sound as soon as it starts ramping up. It is a constant droning sound, and I cannot understand what is causing it. I'm noticing from the Nitrosense app that came preinstalled that the fan making the noise runs at lower RPM compared to the other one, until it doesn't and the droning sound stops. I've tried opening up the laptop, and other than cleaning some dust from the fins and fans I could not find any obvious problems that might be causing this sound; There was one piece of duct tape next to the fans that lost all its adhesive and I thought that could be it when moved by air coming from the fans, but even after removing it the problem is still present. I am starting to think that it might be the bearings of the fan, but it seems strange that they are already failing after roughly 1 year of (not even that intensive) usage. Do you have any idea what might be causing this problem? I am attaching a picture with the lower RPMs and a video in order to show off the droning sound. VID_20200212_130338.mp4