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Birdasm

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So This morning i hop on my pc and its fine through the day.
Later this day i go onto dota 2
After being in 5 mins my pc crashes and goes to grey screen then i have to restart my pc
this has happened 6 times now.
also 2 of them were on CS:GO. I will List PC Specs below

SPECS:
- MOBO - Asus p8z77vlx
- CPU - i5 3570k (OC 4.2)
- Cooler - Corsair H60
- GPU - Asus GTX 770
- RAM - 8gb Corsair Vengeance
- Soundcard - Xonar DGX 5.1
- HDD's - 1TB WD blue - 500gb Seagate
- PSU - Corsair CX600w
If i forgot something say !

But im thinking its the PSU
im not sure with all this stuff its dying and is playing up so let me know what you think below and then we can talk more about this!

Thanks Alot
Alex
 
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gopher1369

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In my experience it's almost always either:

Heat causing thermal shutdown. Use Coretemp to monitor this
RAM: download and run memtest, leave it running overnight ideally
PSU - no easy way to test this, have to swap it for a know working PSU.
 
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Birdasm

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Thanks for reply
ill test these things and then get back to you :)

 
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Birdasm

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OK did memtest overnight nothing
and ill do the other stuff later today

BUT i notice that its only doing it with source games this sounds sillt but it was
ARMA 3 was fine
cod4 was fine

The CSGO and Dota 2, 5 mins in they grey screened

 
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Birdasm

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FORGET THAT LAST POST
Memtest ram is fine

So i did a test with heaven and my gpu got to 76 degrees then instant crash!
I thought the GTX 770 could get a bit hotter then that
HELP
 
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Birdasm

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I know! well ive been away from my PC for today ill do another test to see when it crashes again.

Any other suggestions
 
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sethgi

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Ok, I would run some stress tests. Don't use artificial ones. Sit there the WHOLE time and watch the temepratures.

Heat may not be the issue. Dota 2 can run on a macbook. If you think it's the psu it's kindof hard to test.

Ok, start with this.

1. Unplug the cable from graphics card and try integrated graphics and see if that makes a difference.
2. Run the stress tests
3. Figure out if there is a temperature at which it crashes.
4. If you have a modular PSU, check connections. Actually, do this no matter what. If you have a modular one use different ports on the psu, and if not try hooking up different cables.
5. If you HAVE to, update BIOS. NOT RECOMENDED, but you may have to. Take some time and research how to do it. Use the asuz ez flash. DON'T USE ASUS EZ UPDATE IT CORRUPTED MY BIOS.

6. Call Asus, it could be the motherboard, Call corsair and see if the psu could cause this,

Hope this helps
 
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Valtsukka

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Hello i know that this is late n you have figured it out but this happens to me when i overclock my gpu for some reason csgo always crashes when i oc
 
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