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My room is usually around 72-78° Fahrenheit, usually the only thing that overheats is the HDD and no the heatsink from the CPU, GPU and RAM are right in it's place so no smoke or burning has come up (thank the Gods), I'll check the one you mentioned I've never tried a Seasonic before but I have heard good stuff about them so thanks a lot for all the advice, you have opened my eyes on some issues my system has, I made it on a budget at the time but I think it's time I change it. :)

Your room temp looks good,altho Im not sure as if your hard disk should be overheating,download HD Tuner Pro or Auslogics Disk Defrag and check their SMART status and its temps,if everything is okay there,run a benchmark with HD TUner PRO and watch for any spikes such as these:

http://imgur.com/HeCL0eh Let me know

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It was 2 or 3 weeks ago, I made the decision to make maintenance on my 5 month old system. Before that everything was running smoothly, I often use 3D softwares such as SolidWorks, ZBrush, 3DsMax as well as picture editing software such as Illustrator and Photoshop, I could have multiple softwares running in 2 days in a row or play GTA V for 5 hours and no problem appeared (I use it for gaming as well).

 

After the maintenance dust-off, there were these sudden episodes in which the system began dropping performance, softwares began to stutter, Windows main bar would be unresponsive and after a while the screen would go pitch black with nothing but the pointer moving, afterwards SOMETIMES I get a blue screen with the error "DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE", I made research and it turns out I must have every piece of hardware updated but it does not make sense since I have them all up to date, so I have 3 hipothesis to why these episodes happen:

 

1.- GPU and/or Motherboard affected during the maintenance but it does not make sense since during these episodes, everything is running, including the GPU.

2.- PSU insufficient wattage supply, I consider this option highly for the reason for which when these episodes happen, the fans' LEDs start flickering as well as slowing the revolutions.

3.- Insufficient RAM which I highly doubt that since 8Gb never gave me a problem in this system nor the laptop I had before.

 

The specs of my system:

 

-Gigabyte H97M-DS3P 1150 skt. Motherboard

-Intel Core i5 4590

-8Gb DDR3 (2x4) 1333 Mhz, ADATA

-Western Digital, 2 Tb, 5400 rpm HDD

-NVidia GeForce GTX 750 Ti, 2 Gb vRAM, 128-bit, GDDR5

-Lynksys 200 Mbps Wireless Network Adapter

-Corsair PSU 500 Watts, semi-modular

-5 fans in total (2 w/LEDs, 2 with no LEDs and the Stock CPU fan)

 

Thank you to anyone in advance for your advice.

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It was 2 or 3 weeks ago, I made the decision to make maintenance on my 5 month old system. Before that everything was running smoothly, I often use 3D softwares such as SolidWorks, ZBrush, 3DsMax as well as picture editing software such as Illustrator and Photoshop, I could have multiple softwares running in 2 days in a row or play GTA V for 5 hours and no problem appeared (I use it for gaming as well).

 

After the maintenance dust-off, there were these sudden episodes in which the system began dropping performance, softwares began to stutter, Windows main bar would be unresponsive and after a while the screen would go pitch black with nothing but the pointer moving, afterwards SOMETIMES I get a blue screen with the error "DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE", I made research and it turns out I must have every piece of hardware updated but it does not make sense since I have them all up to date, so I have 3 hipothesis to why these episodes happen:

 

1.- GPU and/or Motherboard affected during the maintenance but it does not make sense since during these episodes, everything is running, including the GPU.

2.- PSU insufficient wattage supply, I consider this option highly for the reason for which when these episodes happen, the fans' LEDs start flickering as well as slowing the revolutions.

3.- Insufficient RAM which I highly doubt that since 8Gb never gave me a problem in this system nor the laptop I had before.

 

The specs of my system:

 

-Gigabyte H97M-DS3P 1150 skt. Motherboard

-Intel Core i5 4590

-8Gb DDR3 (2x4) 1333 Mhz, ADATA

-Western Digital, 2 Tb, 5400 rpm HDD

-NVidia GeForce GTX 750 Ti, 2 Gb vRAM, 128-bit, GDDR5

-Lynksys 200 Mbps Wireless Network Adapter

-Corsair PSU 500 Watts, semi-modular

-5 fans in total (2 w/LEDs, 2 with no LEDs and the Stock CPU fan)

 

Thank you to anyone in advance for your advice.

If you have a CX PSU,that might aswell could be it(await for a mandatory video from Dan Castanellata :P)

Shark Rampage V: AMD FX-4350 @ 4.5GHz(1.404 Volts) / Hyper 212 Evo / Gigabyte 750Ti (1405MHz Core,3200MHz Memory @ stock voltage) / Kington HyperX Fury 8 Gigs 1866MHz Dual channel / ASUS M5A97 R2.0 / WD Caviar Blue 1TB 7200 RPM / 850Evo 250GB / XFX TS 550w 80+ Bronze Sharkoon VG4-W

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check for loose power cables, i bet when you cleaned it out you left something only half-plugged. 

 

otherwise, perhaps you blew dust into the RAM pins or power sockets on something on accident. 

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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check for loose power cables, i bet when you cleaned it out you left something only half-plugged. 

 

otherwise, perhaps you blew dust into the RAM pins or power sockets on something on accident. 

I checked for loose cables, I found one after the first time it happened, I plugged it back correctly but it's still happening, the latter though, I did not checked so it's a good call, I'll try that

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Indeed, I do have a 500CXM Corsair, is that bad? .__.

Mandatory video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYHVUrXOwbI

The CX series,is meant for BASIC system builds only,or light gaming.The temperature baring barely succeds 30 C,capacitors are meh quality etc.For the kind of work you do,you are putting a lot of stress into that poor thing.Also,if your ambient room temps are high,the PSU might succumb and start degrading.So yea,it is bad.

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Mandatory video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYHVUrXOwbI

The CX series,is meant for BASIC system builds only,or light gaming.The temperature baring barely succeds 30 C,capacitors are meh quality etc.For the kind of work you do,you are putting a lot of stress into that poor thing.Also,if your ambient room temps are high,the PSU might succumb and start degrading.So yea,it is bad.

Oh... Jesus, I did not know that o__o I had my suspicions I would have to change the PSU, is there any you would recommend? Thanks for the tip

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Oh... Jesus, I did not know that o__o I had my suspicions I would have to change the PSU, is there any you would recommend? Thanks for the tip

First off,whats your ambient room temps,is anything in your PC ovberheating,did the heatsink come loose or anything?As for the PSU,a truly great choice(upgrading to it myself)is the XFX TS 550w,85% effieciency,and the bard is actually rebranded Seasonic PSUs that have been tsetd by the company,they are great!

Shark Rampage V: AMD FX-4350 @ 4.5GHz(1.404 Volts) / Hyper 212 Evo / Gigabyte 750Ti (1405MHz Core,3200MHz Memory @ stock voltage) / Kington HyperX Fury 8 Gigs 1866MHz Dual channel / ASUS M5A97 R2.0 / WD Caviar Blue 1TB 7200 RPM / 850Evo 250GB / XFX TS 550w 80+ Bronze Sharkoon VG4-W

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First off,whats your ambient room temps,is anything in your PC ovberheating,did the heatsink come loose or anything?As for the PSU,a truly great choice(upgrading to it myself)is the XFX TS 550w,85% effieciency,and the bard is actually rebranded Seasonic PSUs that have been tsetd by the company,they are great!

My room is usually around 72-78° Fahrenheit, usually the only thing that overheats is the HDD and no the heatsink from the CPU, GPU and RAM are right in it's place so no smoke or burning has come up (thank the Gods), I'll check the one you mentioned I've never tried a Seasonic before but I have heard good stuff about them so thanks a lot for all the advice, you have opened my eyes on some issues my system has, I made it on a budget at the time but I think it's time I change it. :)

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My room is usually around 72-78° Fahrenheit, usually the only thing that overheats is the HDD and no the heatsink from the CPU, GPU and RAM are right in it's place so no smoke or burning has come up (thank the Gods), I'll check the one you mentioned I've never tried a Seasonic before but I have heard good stuff about them so thanks a lot for all the advice, you have opened my eyes on some issues my system has, I made it on a budget at the time but I think it's time I change it. :)

Your room temp looks good,altho Im not sure as if your hard disk should be overheating,download HD Tuner Pro or Auslogics Disk Defrag and check their SMART status and its temps,if everything is okay there,run a benchmark with HD TUner PRO and watch for any spikes such as these:

http://imgur.com/HeCL0eh Let me know

Shark Rampage V: AMD FX-4350 @ 4.5GHz(1.404 Volts) / Hyper 212 Evo / Gigabyte 750Ti (1405MHz Core,3200MHz Memory @ stock voltage) / Kington HyperX Fury 8 Gigs 1866MHz Dual channel / ASUS M5A97 R2.0 / WD Caviar Blue 1TB 7200 RPM / 850Evo 250GB / XFX TS 550w 80+ Bronze Sharkoon VG4-W

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It was 2 or 3 weeks ago, I made the decision to make maintenance on my 5 month old system. Before that everything was running smoothly, I often use 3D softwares such as SolidWorks, ZBrush, 3DsMax as well as picture editing software such as Illustrator and Photoshop, I could have multiple softwares running in 2 days in a row or play GTA V for 5 hours and no problem appeared (I use it for gaming as well).

 

After the maintenance dust-off, there were these sudden episodes in which the system began dropping performance, softwares began to stutter, Windows main bar would be unresponsive and after a while the screen would go pitch black with nothing but the pointer moving, afterwards SOMETIMES I get a blue screen with the error "DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE", I made research and it turns out I must have every piece of hardware updated but it does not make sense since I have them all up to date, so I have 3 hipothesis to why these episodes happen:

 

1.- GPU and/or Motherboard affected during the maintenance but it does not make sense since during these episodes, everything is running, including the GPU.

2.- PSU insufficient wattage supply, I consider this option highly for the reason for which when these episodes happen, the fans' LEDs start flickering as well as slowing the revolutions.

3.- Insufficient RAM which I highly doubt that since 8Gb never gave me a problem in this system nor the laptop I had before.

 

The specs of my system:

 

-Gigabyte H97M-DS3P 1150 skt. Motherboard

-Intel Core i5 4590

-8Gb DDR3 (2x4) 1333 Mhz, ADATA

-Western Digital, 2 Tb, 5400 rpm HDD

-NVidia GeForce GTX 750 Ti, 2 Gb vRAM, 128-bit, GDDR5

-Lynksys 200 Mbps Wireless Network Adapter

-Corsair PSU 500 Watts, semi-modular

-5 fans in total (2 w/LEDs, 2 with no LEDs and the Stock CPU fan)

 

Thank you to anyone in advance for your advice.

you have prety much the exact same system as me!

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I wont be on to help you for the next like 10 hours mind that.

Shark Rampage V: AMD FX-4350 @ 4.5GHz(1.404 Volts) / Hyper 212 Evo / Gigabyte 750Ti (1405MHz Core,3200MHz Memory @ stock voltage) / Kington HyperX Fury 8 Gigs 1866MHz Dual channel / ASUS M5A97 R2.0 / WD Caviar Blue 1TB 7200 RPM / 850Evo 250GB / XFX TS 550w 80+ Bronze Sharkoon VG4-W

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Your room temp looks good,altho Im not sure as if your hard disk should be overheating,download HD Tuner Pro or Auslogics Disk Defrag and check their SMART status and its temps,if everything is okay there,run a benchmark with HD TUner PRO and watch for any spikes such as these:

http://imgur.com/HeCL0eh Let me know

I got this, I'm gonna run an error check and will upload the image, thanks again for all your help :)

 

http://imgur.com/ciiqONE

 

 

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The benchmark seems alright,I agree with @Schasty but IMO,would a goo call to just replace the PSU,CX isnt meant for gaming sessions,basic systems is what its made for.

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My bet is on too high temps.

Maybe you loosened the cooler on your GPU/CPU when you dedusted it.

Also I am pretty sure that the PSU is not a problem at all.

Could be it, I'm certain the heatsinks from the CPU, GPU and RAM are completely intact, but doesn't hurt to check, anyhow, I never trusted the PSU choice I made so, I think it's a good chance to change it to something more reliable, thanks for the tip though :)

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The benchmark seems alright,I agree with @Schasty but IMO,would a goo call to just replace the PSU,CX isnt meant for gaming sessions,basic systems is what its made for.

Yeah, regardless the PSU is not the problem, I never thought that one would be a good choice but I went with it because I was on a tight budget at the time :/ so I think in any way, it's for the best... I'll check on the heatsinks a 2nd time and hope for the best, I'll mark the topic as solved now, thank you and to the rest for giving me a hand on this, I now have more of an insight of what's the problem, You guys are awesome.

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Yeah, regardless the PSU is not the problem, I never thought that one would be a good choice but I went with it because I was on a tight budget at the time :/ so I think in any way, it's for the best... I'll check on the heatsinks a 2nd time and hope for the best, I'll mark the topic as solved now, thank you and to the rest for giving me a hand on this, I now have more of an insight of what's the problem, You guys are awesome.

No problem mayty,if you are still experiencing problems,dont forget to give me a message,im on almost all day!

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