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AlCarosse
By AlCarosse
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Hello.

My PC randomly crashes when I do... anything. From playing games to watching video and working in Word. Not necessarily something stressful.

It started after I dug up my old keyboard (Corsair K65). Its probably unrelated, but it was the first time.

I removed the keyboard. Still crashes.

Reinstalled windows, disassembled the pc, cleaned it, changed thermal paste, reassembled, formatted all disks, Installed fresh Windows, activated prime95, Furmark and CPU burner simultaneously for ~12hours. It was fine.

No crashes, 79C on CPU, 77C on GPU .

Then while I was installing Visual Studio it crashed.

 

The system isn't new, it's from late 2013.

Intel i7 4970k

MSI Z97 Gaming 3

HyperX Fury 2x8GB DDR3 1866MHZ

Gigabyte GTX 1080 WINDFORCE OC 8G

 

What else can/should I do/check ?

 

Thank you in advance.

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check your RAM first. are you getting BSODs? 
what error codes are you getting if you are getting them?

We can't Benchmark like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to shove more GPUs in your computer. Like the time I needed to NV-Link, because I needed a higher HeavenBench score, so I did an SLI, which is what they called NV-Link back in the day. So, I decided to put two GPUs in my computer, which was the style at the time. Now, to add another GPU to your computer, costs a new PSU. Now in those days PSUs said OCZ on them, "Gimme 750W OCZs for an SLI" you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had two GPUs in my rig, which was the style at the time! They didn't have RGB PSUs at the time, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big green ones. 

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5 minutes ago, VioDuskar said:

check your RAM first. are you getting BSODs? 
what error codes are you getting if you are getting them?

None. It crashed into black screen, with fans spinning at max speed. How can I check RAM ? memtest ?

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7 minutes ago, AlCarosse said:

None. It crashed into black screen, with fans spinning at max speed. How can I check RAM ? memtest ?

Memtest if it's stable enough. otherwise try one stick at a time in different slots. 

We can't Benchmark like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to shove more GPUs in your computer. Like the time I needed to NV-Link, because I needed a higher HeavenBench score, so I did an SLI, which is what they called NV-Link back in the day. So, I decided to put two GPUs in my computer, which was the style at the time. Now, to add another GPU to your computer, costs a new PSU. Now in those days PSUs said OCZ on them, "Gimme 750W OCZs for an SLI" you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had two GPUs in my rig, which was the style at the time! They didn't have RGB PSUs at the time, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big green ones. 

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