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- Aug 9, 2014
Hi.
My PC built on the Gigabyte P55A-UD3R motherboard, and it has issues when playing games. Namely, PC is rebooting under (un)certain conditions. Generally, when it is loaded with some serious graphic.
Details. Some games, very demanding ones (Witcher 3), had no problems at all, or, if they did, then very rarely. Other not very demanding games (Skyrim, Mass Effect 3's Leviathan DLC) had very constant and repetitive issues. Skyrim was rebooting the PC when in in-game menu. ME3's Leviathan was rebooting at certain cutscenes, but not even loading CPU/GPU that much.
In medium cases it was also dependent on environment temperature. Cold = less problems, warm = more problems. Howewer, it was not helping even if I had downclocked GPU and limited its power consumption very hard.
PSU is 750W and fine, I did tested it with Furmark GPU+CPU mode, it holds. GPU was 6970 initially. Now I changed it with FURY X and it got much worse. With its advanced power management I believe I can limit consumption so that it will consume much less than 6970 did. But it doesn't helps at all (like, I can play Witcher 3 for a minute if FURY X is downclocked, or for a 15 seconds if it isn't). With 6970 it all was mostly playable, and with FURY X - mostly not.
But as it is essentially repeating on different GPUs I think GPUs are not the problem themselves. Again, it could work with 6970 at 100% constant load and whining fan, but reboots in another game when it is downclocked to 500MHz, -20% power and graphics settings so low that GPU was just at 40% activity and at 60 Celsius (which is low for a 6970).
So, what is left is motherboard. But how to diagnose it? All system temperatures that are monitored is fine. The chipset isn't even hot. Power circuits? Any other chips that can affect?
Any versions, suggestions, please?
P.S. It seems that I will have to upgrade MB/CPU, but as I already have 16GB DDR3 memory and i5-750 at 4.0GHz I feel, you know, greedy to change it with essentially the same stuff. So I prefer to find a solution rather than upgrade.
My PC built on the Gigabyte P55A-UD3R motherboard, and it has issues when playing games. Namely, PC is rebooting under (un)certain conditions. Generally, when it is loaded with some serious graphic.
Details. Some games, very demanding ones (Witcher 3), had no problems at all, or, if they did, then very rarely. Other not very demanding games (Skyrim, Mass Effect 3's Leviathan DLC) had very constant and repetitive issues. Skyrim was rebooting the PC when in in-game menu. ME3's Leviathan was rebooting at certain cutscenes, but not even loading CPU/GPU that much.
In medium cases it was also dependent on environment temperature. Cold = less problems, warm = more problems. Howewer, it was not helping even if I had downclocked GPU and limited its power consumption very hard.
PSU is 750W and fine, I did tested it with Furmark GPU+CPU mode, it holds. GPU was 6970 initially. Now I changed it with FURY X and it got much worse. With its advanced power management I believe I can limit consumption so that it will consume much less than 6970 did. But it doesn't helps at all (like, I can play Witcher 3 for a minute if FURY X is downclocked, or for a 15 seconds if it isn't). With 6970 it all was mostly playable, and with FURY X - mostly not.
But as it is essentially repeating on different GPUs I think GPUs are not the problem themselves. Again, it could work with 6970 at 100% constant load and whining fan, but reboots in another game when it is downclocked to 500MHz, -20% power and graphics settings so low that GPU was just at 40% activity and at 60 Celsius (which is low for a 6970).
So, what is left is motherboard. But how to diagnose it? All system temperatures that are monitored is fine. The chipset isn't even hot. Power circuits? Any other chips that can affect?
Any versions, suggestions, please?
P.S. It seems that I will have to upgrade MB/CPU, but as I already have 16GB DDR3 memory and i5-750 at 4.0GHz I feel, you know, greedy to change it with essentially the same stuff. So I prefer to find a solution rather than upgrade.