Weird Crashing issue

[Cloveh]

So on my pc, it sometimes randomly crashes, and I have only noticed it when playing one game, GTA V, for long periods of time (1-2 hours). All of a sudden everything freezes, and the computer reboots. I have run the aida stress test for about an hour and a half and have not run into this issue. If it were hardware related what would it most likely be? Specs are an asus x99A usb3.1, i7 6800k (was at 4.2, backing off to 4.0), kingston hyperx ddr4 32gb (4x 8gb) 2133 mhz, PSU is an evga 750 watt bronze semi modular PSU. I appreciate any help. It has only crashed 2 times, both in gta 5

[Imakuni]

Aren't your forgetting something? Say, the GPU and it's OC (if any)?

[SageOfSpice]

Is it just a straight multiplier overclock, or did you adjust BCLK, NB, or RAM?

What are your temps like?

Is utilization consistent?

[Cloveh]

Just a straight multiplier OC, voltage is at 1.2 for 4.2 and 1.15 for 4.0. Temps are low. max temps are ~70c. GPU is a Nvidia GTX 660 (LOL) and it has no OC.

[Cloveh]

20 minutes ago, SageOfSpice said:

Is it just a straight multiplier overclock, or did you adjust BCLK, NB, or RAM?

What are your temps like?

Is utilization consistent?

 

Utilization is consistent around 20%. Temps don't spike. No ram OC. its running at non xmp settings so like 1067mhz

[Cloveh]

I am worried its a PSU issue... If someone can confirm that then I will rma. 

[Imakuni]

9 minutes ago, Cloveh said:

Just a straight multiplier OC, voltage is at 1.2 for 4.2 and 1.15 for 4.0. Temps are low. max temps are ~70c. GPU is a Nvidia GTX 660 (LOL) and it has no OC.

Then put everything back at stock and see if the issue still occurs.

 

You can also do a Prime95 Small FTT test for about 1h and see if it fails when OCed. Honestly, that's what it's sounding like, you have an unstable OC.

[Cloveh]

Just now, Imakuni said:

Then put everything back at stock and see if the issue still occurs.

 

You can also do a Prime95 Small FTT test for about 1h and see if it fails when OCed. Honestly, that's what it's sounding like, you have an unstable OC.

 

Its possible. In EVERYTHING else it works fine. I have stressed it with AIDA (the 4.2 ghz OC) for an hour and it didn't yield any negative results. I will try prime 95 but I don't expect anything different.

[Imakuni]

Just now, Cloveh said:

Its possible. In EVERYTHING else it works fine. I have stressed it with AIDA (the 4.2 ghz OC) for an hour and it didn't yield any negative results. I will try prime 95 but I don't expect anything different.

Aida64 is potato. It's actually not that difficult to pass Aida and then crash within 5min of playing a game. And I guess the same could be said for P95 as well, it's possible to pass it yet fail elsewhere, although that's rarer.

[Cloveh]

Hmm good to know! I was told the opposite so I am running p95 atm

[Cloveh]

Immediately I just saw a spike in temp to an area I have never seen before. It's already at 81c

[Cloveh]

20 minutes ago, Imakuni said:

Aida64 is potato. It's actually not that difficult to pass Aida and then crash within 5min of playing a game. And I guess the same could be said for P95 as well, it's possible to pass it yet fail elsewhere, although that's rarer.

 

And does it REALLY make a difference to run it for an hour vs 15-20-30 min. It has been running for about 15 minutes now and nothing at all has happened. 15k on all cores has passed.

[Imakuni]

21 minutes ago, Cloveh said:

And does it REALLY make a difference to run it for an hour vs 15-20-30 min. It has been running for about 15 minutes now and nothing at all has happened. 15k on all cores has passed.

Didn't you say,

1 hour ago, Cloveh said:

So on my pc, it sometimes randomly crashes, and I have only noticed it when playing one game, GTA V, for long periods of time (1-2 hours)

So if you only crash after a long period of time, it's only natural to stress test for an equally long period of time, no?

 

To be frank, I've had OCs fail the 30min, 50min, 2h, even 5h marks.

[Cloveh]

12 minutes ago, Imakuni said:

Didn't you say,

So if you only crash after a long period of time, it's only natural to stress test for an equally long period of time, no?

 

To be frank, I've had OCs fail the 30min, 50min, 2h, even 5h marks.

 

Ok, so I tested, and literally 8 minutes before an hour had passed it crashed. The reason I DON'T think its an OC problem is when I am booting I get no bios notification that the OC had failed. Every other time anything related to the OC had failed in the past I was notified when booting the machine. I think it is a PSU problem because I was running fur mark and P95 at the same time and got no error message about my OC. I will do some more research but I will probably end up RMAing the PSU, and if the issue is still there the GPU, then the MOBO. The GPU was only on boost clock (1100 MHz) for the first 2 minutes of the GPU stress. It then starts throttling down to 935 MHz which is under the base clock. I should probably RMA it anyway because I have other issues with it. I still don't think that's whats causing this issue. I read elsewhere it is most likely related to the PSU, so tomorrow I will call EVGA and see if they can convince me otherwise. Thanks for your help and if you have any more ideas I would love to hear them! Thanks!

[Cloveh]

Just now, Cloveh said:

Ok, so I tested, and literally 8 minutes before an hour had passed it crashed. The reason I DON'T think its an OC problem is when I am booting I get no bios notification that the OC had failed. Every other time anything related to the OC had failed in the past I was notified when booting the machine. I think it is a PSU problem because I was running fur mark and P95 at the same time and got no error message about my OC. I will do some more research but I will probably end up RMAing the PSU, and if the issue is still there the GPU, then the MOBO. The GPU was only on boost clock (1100 MHz) for the first 2 minutes of the GPU stress. It then starts throttling down to 935 MHz which is under the base clock. I should probably RMA it anyway because I have other issues with it. I still don't think that's whats causing this issue. I read elsewhere it is most likely related to the PSU, so tomorrow I will call EVGA and see if they can convince me otherwise. Thanks for your help and if you have any more ideas I would love to hear them! Thanks!

 

Oh also Its kinda weird. It doesn't crash and stay off, it reboots.