Hello folks, first time poster and generally I don't need advice with things like this but there's a first time for everything.
I've just built a new computer a few months ago, however every now and then everything freezes. It's working fine, then zing, stops responding, or the screen gets all hashed and it restarts. It doesn't happen that often, but it's still worrying. I will provide any information you guys think you'll need, as I've built several computers and they've never had problems before and this problem is beginning to annoy me.
Only possible problem I can think of is I was recommended a 1000w PSU, however I assumed that was just sales talk and got a 500w instead and aside from a few jumping voltages early on (12V hit 14 at some point, however it's not happened again recently,) everything's performed absolutely fine.
The system is overclocked, from 3.80Ghz to 4.3Ghz, however the freezing/shutting down still occurs when not OC'd.
I've had a look at the event viewer, and these power failures/freezes seem to be listed as unexplained shutdowns.
Sys Specs:
Mobo: AMD 990FX
CPU: AMD FX-4300 Quad core
GFX: AMD Radeon HD 6450
8Gb Memory
Win7 Home prem.
2 HDD, one a SSD boot disk and the other with all my crap on.
Also I'm thinking of upgrading to a different graphics card at some point, although I'm not planning on an SLi or crossfire setup. Would you recommend getting a larger PSU?
I've just built a new computer a few months ago, however every now and then everything freezes. It's working fine, then zing, stops responding, or the screen gets all hashed and it restarts. It doesn't happen that often, but it's still worrying. I will provide any information you guys think you'll need, as I've built several computers and they've never had problems before and this problem is beginning to annoy me.
Only possible problem I can think of is I was recommended a 1000w PSU, however I assumed that was just sales talk and got a 500w instead and aside from a few jumping voltages early on (12V hit 14 at some point, however it's not happened again recently,) everything's performed absolutely fine.
The system is overclocked, from 3.80Ghz to 4.3Ghz, however the freezing/shutting down still occurs when not OC'd.
I've had a look at the event viewer, and these power failures/freezes seem to be listed as unexplained shutdowns.
Sys Specs:
Mobo: AMD 990FX
CPU: AMD FX-4300 Quad core
GFX: AMD Radeon HD 6450
8Gb Memory
Win7 Home prem.
2 HDD, one a SSD boot disk and the other with all my crap on.
Also I'm thinking of upgrading to a different graphics card at some point, although I'm not planning on an SLi or crossfire setup. Would you recommend getting a larger PSU?
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