New computer restarts when playing BF3, Crysis 3...

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Kenetix

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Hello guys,

I've been suffering a rather weird issue with my newly acquired computer...
Everytime I play games such as BF3 or Crysis3, my computer just restarts after awhile, sometimes 10 minutes into the game, other times i can be playing for an hour...
This thing does not happen when playing other games such as Bioshock Infinite or Need for Speed: Most Wanted.

I have run all kinds of stress tests:
Prime95 + Furmark for about 30 minutes and no crashes or system stability issues.
OCCT PSU test, OCCT CPU test....

Here are my specs:
Core i5 3570K (OC'ed to 3.9Ghz at 1.12V)
Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (latest BIOS installed)
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 660 OC 2Gb
NOX Urano 600W PSU
8GB G.Skill Ripjaws X DDR3 1600
4 HDD's


What should I do??

Thanks in advance!
 
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DarkSable

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Well, there are a few things here I could see easily causing this.

They are:
An unstable overclock - you need more than 30 minutes of testing.
A heat issue - next time this happens, try monitoring your temperatures.
A driver issue - which drivers are you using?
The fact that you have an unreliable power supply causing issues in any number of ways.
A corrupted install of windows - how are your hard drives set up, and what was your process to install windows?

The reason it could be heat, drivers, ect, despite the fact that it works fine in the other two games you named is that they're much less intense games, and so likely aren't stressing the computer nearly as much.
 
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Kenetix

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I am using the latest drivers from Nvidia, if that's what you mean by what drivers I'm using.
How can i monitor the temperature if the computer just restarts? Any program that is running in the background will just quit and presumably won't be able to save any log.
What do you mean by unreliable PSU??? I had this PSU powering the older computer, had a graphics card ATI HD4870 1Gb which needed 8 pins, the one i currently have only needs 6, which makes me think it's less power hungry. The same would apply for the CPU, I'm sure much has changed since my older Q6600 in comparison to the i5...
As for Windows, I am running it on a partition of my Western Digital 500Gb Caviar Black.
 
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Latest as in the 314.22 release?

What you do is you have the program, ideally, running on a second monitor. If that's not feasible, then you run the game in windowed mode with the monitoring program beside it.

I did a little research on your PSU - turns out it's made by superflower. If they're still as reliable as they used to be, then ignore what I said; it likely won't be coming from there.

And when you installed windows, was the only drive that was plugged in that western digital?
 
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Kenetix

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Well I am happy to hear that the PSU is likely not to blame here.

As for the Windows 8 installation, yeah, there were other drives plugged in as I installed it, I didn't mention it because I was not sure if it was important.

I have the 314.22 nvidia drivers, yeah.

Running the game in windowed mode while looking at the temp would only let me see if there's an overheating issue, If i don't get any overheat while benchmarking, is it still possible when gaming?
I forgot to mention my CPU cooler is a Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO.
 
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Stop overclocking?? I am only at 3.9Ghz, with load temperatures on OCCT not going over 67ºC when being stressed :S
 
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Right now you have to identifywhether it is a hardware stability problem or a software stability problem. The easiest way to do that is to stop overclocking (until you eliminate the problem).
 
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