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- Oct 25, 2012
Computer restarted randomly today during gaming (Not a very heavy game either, Europa Universalis IV). No BSOD or anything.
Afterward I continued playing, seems to happen every 1-2 hours. Restarted 2 more times during gameplay. (Game saves every turn so I never lose progress)
While it's not a very demanding game I do notice it spikes the CPU every so often (it's an RTS game, on the 'turn' it does recalculations and thus uses more CPU) and perhaps this caused to voltage needs to spike above it's setting? I watched the temperatures, they were low-mid 40s during play and spike to 65c when the 'turn' hits and then returns to 40s.
What do you guys think? Or could my AX1200 finally be going bad? I've played 6+ hours previously before today on the game (for many months) with no issues, what do you think would cause my computer to randomly restart now? Played multiple other games with my overclock (Crysis 3, GTA V) for hours on end with no issue. What would cause issue all of a sudden?
I just updated my BIOS to the most recent version, AMD Radeon drivers to latest beta, and turned off the overclock (now its all auto). Wonder if this will fix it or if its time to replace a PSU perhaps.
Afterward I continued playing, seems to happen every 1-2 hours. Restarted 2 more times during gameplay. (Game saves every turn so I never lose progress)
While it's not a very demanding game I do notice it spikes the CPU every so often (it's an RTS game, on the 'turn' it does recalculations and thus uses more CPU) and perhaps this caused to voltage needs to spike above it's setting? I watched the temperatures, they were low-mid 40s during play and spike to 65c when the 'turn' hits and then returns to 40s.
What do you guys think? Or could my AX1200 finally be going bad? I've played 6+ hours previously before today on the game (for many months) with no issues, what do you think would cause my computer to randomly restart now? Played multiple other games with my overclock (Crysis 3, GTA V) for hours on end with no issue. What would cause issue all of a sudden?
I just updated my BIOS to the most recent version, AMD Radeon drivers to latest beta, and turned off the overclock (now its all auto). Wonder if this will fix it or if its time to replace a PSU perhaps.
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