this is just background, you can skip it if you want.
recently, my rig began rebooting (somewhat randomly) although mostly when doing graphical things, and would state the board was getting a surge from the psu and restarted in order to blah blah blah. needless to say, I almost rma'd a perfectly good 780, at the height of the issue I made the system reboot precisely, by running EVGA OcScanner on a small resolution. but after going through the internet I read the issues with the asus anti surge and turned it off, and am now able to sustain core burner at 1080p with x8 MSAA, been running for 20 minutes straight now as I type this without any reboots.
system specs
asus z87-pro
4770k
EVGA 780SC w/ acx
corsair AX860i
16gb corsair platinum
win 8.1 and 7 (would also crash when I tried with ubuntu)
now the question, does the anti surge really register as many false positives as I've read on the web? Can I safely turn it off and not worry about it? Why did I mostly get errors while using gpu intensive stuff? Is my psu reliable enough that I can rule it out as actually sending bad voltages?
using asus duel intelligent processors my voltages are as follows
+12V = 11.904 or 12
+5V = 5 or 5.04
+3V = steady 3.264
I also run my pc from a belkin surge protecting wall plug.
any thoughts on this? sorry if I sound slow on this, but hardware always tends to leave me in the dust when it comes to comprehension.
also, this was built this summer, so any reasoning as to why this just started recently?
and it appears I spoke far too soon, even after disabling the anti surge it continues to reboot, can somebody please tell me why?
recently, my rig began rebooting (somewhat randomly) although mostly when doing graphical things, and would state the board was getting a surge from the psu and restarted in order to blah blah blah. needless to say, I almost rma'd a perfectly good 780, at the height of the issue I made the system reboot precisely, by running EVGA OcScanner on a small resolution. but after going through the internet I read the issues with the asus anti surge and turned it off, and am now able to sustain core burner at 1080p with x8 MSAA, been running for 20 minutes straight now as I type this without any reboots.
system specs
asus z87-pro
4770k
EVGA 780SC w/ acx
corsair AX860i
16gb corsair platinum
win 8.1 and 7 (would also crash when I tried with ubuntu)
now the question, does the anti surge really register as many false positives as I've read on the web? Can I safely turn it off and not worry about it? Why did I mostly get errors while using gpu intensive stuff? Is my psu reliable enough that I can rule it out as actually sending bad voltages?
using asus duel intelligent processors my voltages are as follows
+12V = 11.904 or 12
+5V = 5 or 5.04
+3V = steady 3.264
I also run my pc from a belkin surge protecting wall plug.
any thoughts on this? sorry if I sound slow on this, but hardware always tends to leave me in the dust when it comes to comprehension.
also, this was built this summer, so any reasoning as to why this just started recently?
and it appears I spoke far too soon, even after disabling the anti surge it continues to reboot, can somebody please tell me why?