Power supply failure?????

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Recently, I have been experiencing random reboots, particularly while gaming. I have updated my drivers, and even swapped GPUs. Ive done everything except check out the power supply, which is about 4 months old. What is wrong with my PC?????
 
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bignastyid
8v on the 12v rail is bad. Surprised the system runs at all. Like we said apevia psus are piles of garbage. Time to buy a new psu asap. You should feel lucky it hasn't damaged anything yet. I tend to stick with Seasonic, XFX, Corsair (except cx and rm series), and Evga has shown promise with good budget units.
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THUNDERHAWK

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I ran a memory test and nothing came up. I have also checked and rechecked my temperatures and all of them are sub-40C. My power supply model is Apevia ATX-AP800W.

My build:
AMD FX-9370 @ 5.2 Ghz w/ Liquid Cooling
16GB Corsair Vengeance @ 1866Mhz
MSI Twin Frozr III GeForce GTX 660
GIGABYTE 990FX-UD3
Apevia ATX-AP800W
2TB Western Digital HHD
 
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I would suspect the PSU. Apevia PSUs are garbage, low efficiency, can't hit their rated wattage and they have very poor voltage regulation which usually worsens under load. That PSu could very well be causing the problems. Given your specs a good PSU with 550w to 600w would work.
 
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8v on the 12v rail is bad. Surprised the system runs at all. Like we said apevia psus are piles of garbage. Time to buy a new psu asap. You should feel lucky it hasn't damaged anything yet. I tend to stick with Seasonic, XFX, Corsair (except cx and rm series), and Evga has shown promise with good budget units.
 
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