I currently own an EVGA 550W psu, had it for a while now, in fact had it in my 2600K build now i think about it so probably getting on in years. About 6 months to a year ago I started having problems where my pc would just hard reboot while playing games, seemingly randomly, could be after a few minutes or half an hour. Got increasingly fed up with and after googling the error code i was getting in event viewer and not really getting anywhere I decided to just a do a fresh windows 10 install and all was good for ages but now its started happening again in both BF2042 and Farm simulator 2025. So new PSU it is I reckon as from what Ive discovered, again from googling is a 550w PSU with a 3060TI and a 5600X is a bit borderline. So I think I've narrowed it down to a few psu's. Corsair 850e, cheapest option but doesnt have japanese caps. Corsair 850X dearer but with the better caps and a better fan i believe but also about £30 dearer 850W Cooler Master MWE 850 Gold V2 ATX3.1 well reviewed it seems and in the middleish in price. Any opinions on these, other ones i can look at for under £130?
Bad ram is a very common cause of reboots during heavy loads like gaming and photo/video encoding, so that's the first thing I would be testing before forking out on a new PSU. After that I would do an SSD test. If they both come up clean then I would start thinking about a PSU or possibly the memory controller on the motherboard. Your cpu is only 65w and the gfx card is 200w, so that PSU should be fine to run them. Download memtest86 and run it with only 1 stick of ram in at a time. See what it comes up with. You could even try running your games with 1 stick of ram too.
Ran windows memory test and that came back fine. It's pretty new ram as my old crucial stuff was indeed faulty so I bought new Corsair as I didn't want to wait for the rma, I will double check with memtest though and I'll test both of my M2's.
There is other stuff you want to be checking before paying out too, like making sure voltages are correct in your bios. From what I understand a failing PSU won't only crash under heavy loads, it will crash completely randomly or whenever some hardware decides it needs more power and even then I would imagine it would shut off until you turn it back on rather than reboot itself, which is why I would eliminate other possibilities first. I may be wrong though if someone else would like to correct me on it.
^ When I was trying to run 2080 Ti on a 550w Seasonic, it was shutting off when demanding games was loaded up. Does it crash when not under load? Try remove every slotted in components, including CPU and re-install them. I've found sometimes it all just works again like black magic. Ensure you are using correct RAM slots and try swap the sticks.
i got an asus tuf gaming 850w but a decent amount under £100.. found a deal at the time.. seems like a decent psu
Yes it does occasionally crash just in windows but mostly after a short period of playing. Had gpuz log temps and it seems ok apart from one reading which is a bit ambiguously named and people seem to not really know what it relates too, that's around the 87c mark. I'll try all the things everyone has mentioned and see what happens. Got some sort of virus at the moment so probably won't be testing for a short while.
So Farming sim 2025 is now crashing within a minute of getting into a map. I've tried running it with just one stick of ram in and same result (will do a memtest run too) Swapped my power lead and plugged directly into the wall rather than my surge protected extension. Just tried the self test on my crucial M2 drive and the short test ran fine but if i try and do the extened test it falls over straight away with an I/O error (this is my windows drive), so is it my drive? I have my sons spare m2 drive i could clone to tomorrow to either rule that out or find the smoking gun, which is handy. I also found that my ram was set to 1.2v but the ram states 1.35v so i changed that but no dice.
Did you try both sticks of ram on their own? If it crashed with both then yeah, I would be looking at the m.2 next.
Only did one stick last night but will do it with the other stick today, it's a pain the ass as my one of the fans on my cooler covers the stick so I've got to remove that first and wasn't in the mood last night.
All memtest results came back fine. The crucial software suddenly allowed the extended test and that came back fine, as did the Western Digital drive test.
