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Weird Power issues when it comes to OC?

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  • Performance
  • Powersupply
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October 13, 2014 8:05:02 PM

Hey guys. Recently I've been having this problem where my pc keeps shutting down and restarting and shutting down (cycle repeats). Up to almost a year now my computer has always ran fine on the OC mode set in the bios (max performance, max power saving for that performance) and it ran fine. It seems now that after a year I can only get my computer to properly start up once ive set my motherboard to the lowest power saving option without OC's. It works fine if I do that but As soon as I switch it to either normal or OC mode it starts randomly shutting down and restarting, not displaying screen, sometimes turning on only to say oc setup has failed please reconfigure, and If it luckily gets me on, it will freeze in desktop mode or just randomly boot down. Could this be my PSU being faulty after a while? or is something wrong with the OC?

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October 13, 2014 8:11:39 PM

It would be the PSU, the mobo and/or the CPU. As components age, this happens....

Before you change out parts....what temps are you running? It could be something as simple as a fan not working properly because of dust or thermal paste drying out.
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October 13, 2014 8:22:35 PM

ronintexas said:
It would be the PSU, the mobo and/or the CPU. As components age, this happens....

Before you change out parts....what temps are you running? It could be something as simple as a fan not working properly because of dust or thermal paste drying out.


on average my cpu is running at 40c, if i open the window it goes down to about 32c average, I recently cleaned my pc as well so theres no dust, cpu is fine in my opinion, again this problem only happens as soon as i choose normal or turbo mode on the bios, I just got this gut feeling it could be a psu problem, but im not too sure at the same time ;( my cpu is an intel i5 3570k btw. Its weird that i had my cpu oc and my bios motherboard oc for a solid year before it now giving me problems
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October 13, 2014 8:30:00 PM

You can try the PSU - it is possible that it isn't providing voltages properly creating an unstable OC.....make sure you get a tier1/tier2 PSU:

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1925006/power-su...
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