Instant crashes while gaming

RarZard · October 5, 2019

Hi. So recently, a friend of mine has had this problem going on. When entering a game session of CS GO or a simple game of Rocket League, the pc reboots.

Today, i went to his house, brought my SSD and my graphics card to test if it was the GPU or not. Brought the SSD since he had some problems in his and had to do a clean installation of windows.

I did some Cinebench r15 consecutive runs, no crashes.Prime95 for half an hour, no crashes. Max temp on the CPU: 71ºC

Also tried some heaven benchmark and tried 3DMark FireStrike Stress Test. While doing the heaven benchmark, it doesn't crash, but when i try to do a cinebench r15 run while running heaven, it crashes after a while.3DMark doesn't even start, it insta reboots. Max GPU temp observed was 68ºC.

Tried every test with the different gpus, didn't have much effect. Tried reducing the clock of the cpu even less than the stock number, didn't work. Tried increasing slightly the Voltage, nothing worked.

Also tried testing the individual ram sticks, didn't see any different result.

Build is the following:

-I7 6700k(was running at 4.0GHz all clocks, 1.25V)

-Asus Maximum VIII Ranger Z170

-16DDR4 Ripjaws V

-Asus Strix 970(Tried with my MSI Armor 1070, didn't solve)

-Corsair VS650

Any tips?

SlayerOfHellWyrm · October 5, 2019

Try another PSU? It could be a sub-optimal PSU and having some issues. Could also be the PD from the board to the CPU and GPU, which would mean a board issue. Are you willing to try their PSU in your system to see if that narrows things down?

Side note, is the 8-pin EPS connected in the top left corner?

RarZard · October 10, 2019

On 10/5/2019 at 4:49 AM, SlayerOfHellWyrm said:

Try another PSU? It could be a sub-optimal PSU and having some issues. Could also be the PD from the board to the CPU and GPU, which would mean a board issue. Are you willing to try their PSU in your system to see if that narrows things down?

Side note, is the 8-pin EPS connected in the top left corner?

It's connected. I'm gonna buy a new psu for my build either ways, and i'm gonna test it with that one. If it is indeed the PSU, i'll just give him my old PSU, which is still working and has 3 more years of warranty(A Seasonic M12 520W Bronze). Gonna buy for myself a Seasonic Focus+ 650W Gold.

Thanks for the advice!