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Hello I have been having a crazy issue lately where my circuit breaker flips and I lose power in my room when I am playing apex legends. I build my system back in February and as a university student I have not been able to put more than two hours every once in a blue moon until recently now that I am out of school. The two games I am currently playing are League of Legends and Apex Legends. I am able to play league all day without any issues. But if I switch to apex after a minimum of an hour and a half and try and play all the power to  my room goes out (also happens if I play apex straight up for this time). This happened only once or twice when I first built the machine and thought it may be electrical growing pains of our house we just built (I know this may seem odd but there have been a lot of random issues that have gone on with the new house so this was definitely not as alarming to me at the time as maybe it should have been). Now it happens every game after the hour and a half point or even multiple times a game while playing apex. I have tried googling this for similar answers and come up with maybe a circuit overload issue or a psu issue (not enough wattage or failing). I have tried moving to a different circuit in the house but I can't recreate the circumstances in which the problem may occur as there is not another place where I have internet connection. I have gotten a ups to see if that would help east the issue however that does not help neither, it is a cyber power CP1500PFCLCD. In an attempt to ease the load on the circuit I have unplugged most of my items except for things that are extremely difficult to reach and very impractical to have to keep unplugging and plugging in. I am running windows 11 pro 64 bit and my bios version is AMI, LLC. A.80, 12/16/2021 (I do see there are later versions and I will update as of posting this forum). I do not know how else to test if it is my psu or too much on the circuit please help.

 

System specs:

  • Ryzen 9 5900x
  • NVIDIA RTX 3080 FE
  • Noctua NH-D15 cooler
  • 6 Lian-Li rgb unifans and one controller
  • 1tb wd black 970 m.2 ssd
  • MSI B550 Tomahawk
  • Cooler Master v850 gold v2 850w
  • Fractal Design meshify C

Things plugged into the circuit:

  • LG 77 OLED (never powered on always off while playing)
  • Lg sound bar and sub woofer
  • phone and watch chargers
  • Adjustable bed frame
  • printer (always powered off unless in use)
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Stress test the CPU and GPU together (say Prime95 and Heaven benchmark on loop) and see if the breaker cuts immediately? If this is fine you could try capping frame rates in Apex

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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On 7/4/2022 at 7:17 PM, Jurrunio said:

Stress test the CPU and GPU together (say Prime95 and Heaven benchmark on loop) and see if the breaker cuts immediately? If this is fine you could try capping frame rates in Apex

I was able to run both of these benchmarks on loop for 30 minutes straight with no issues, I believe this means my system should be working just fine correct? If so what is the issue and would capping frame rates in Apex solve it?

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On 7/4/2022 at 9:24 PM, LWM723 said:

What else is on that circuit?

That is everything on this circuit, it is a generic phone charger, wireless phone charger, and apple watch charger. (I had unplugged everything else that was easy to reach or unused when this first started happening again and it continued.

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On 7/4/2022 at 9:24 PM, LWM723 said:

What else is on that circuit?

That is everything on this circuit, it is a generic phone charger, wireless phone charger, and apple watch charger. (I had unplugged everything else that was easy to reach or unused when this first started happening again and it continued.

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2 hours ago, OracleCyanide said:

I was able to run both of these benchmarks on loop for 30 minutes straight with no issues, I believe this means my system should be working just fine correct? If so what is the issue and would capping frame rates in Apex solve it?

capping the frame rate would reduce transient from the system, it should help. If the circuit breaker isnt overly weak I assume transients is the culprit.

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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On 7/12/2022 at 4:02 PM, Jurrunio said:

capping the frame rate would reduce transient from the system, it should help. If the circuit breaker isnt overly weak I assume transients is the culprit.

This had worked for a little while but this issue has started up again. It will do it a few times in one or two games then be completely fine for a few hours of playing. If i then take a break and come back it will flip the breaker again for a couple games.

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