Is my voltages ok, or is my psu failing?

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You can't go by HWMonitor alone, it often reports the wrong values on voltages. Check in your Bios and see what you have there. You can also try Speccy. If your voltages truly are what's shown, you definitely need a different PSU. Honestly, I don't think it would even boot if those were correct.
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Not enough information

1. What are the voltages ? ATX spec allows +/- 5% ... lower if overclocking. Don't trust one utility .... suggest using HWiNFO 64 and having a load on system when measuring. Run Furmark for and RoG Real Bench

2. PSU model number is incomplete

3. What does event viewer say happened ?

4. What is complete component lists with complete make / model numbers ?
 
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These are the specs for power supplies. If your values fall outside of this range, you need to replace the PSU. Improper voltages certainly can cause shutdowns or worse.

Supply (V) Tolerance Range, min. to max. (V) Ripple, p. to p., max. (mV)

+5 ±5% (±0.25 V) +4.75 V to +5.25 50
−5 ±10% (±0.50 V) −4.50 V to −5.50 50
+12 ±5% (±0.60 V) +11.40 V to +12.60 120
−12 ±10% (±1.20 V) −10.80 V to −13.20 120
+3.3 ±5% (±0.165 V) +3.135 V to +3.465 50
+5 standby ±5% (±0.25 V) +4.75 V to +5.25 50
 
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If you look at my voltages my 12 is at 7.8 my 5 is at 3.4 and my 3.3 is at 1.9
 
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Event veiwer says kernel power, the shuttin down as been recently happening, its been fine in the past
 
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Faulty reading. Your system wouldn't even work period if that was near true. Really, using software voltages to troubleshoot PSU problems never works. Usually it's just guessing the PSU may be causing the problem. In your case I have a feeling it could be your RAM; RAM can cause bluescreens, and can cause shutdowns.

Edit: whoops, read that wrong, you aren't having bluescreens. Still start with the RAM. Is there a pattern to when it shuts down? Try a single stick of RAM. Quicker than running hours of memory tests.
 
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Please try downloading AIDA64 Extreme. Go to Tools across the top, select System Stability Test, select everything except for Local Disk. Run the test for ten minutes, take a screenshot of the Statistics tab every minute. Be sure to save the screenshots immediately in case it crashes, so that we have information on what happened right before it crashed.
 
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You can't go by HWMonitor alone, it often reports the wrong values on voltages. Check in your Bios and see what you have there. You can also try Speccy. If your voltages truly are what's shown, you definitely need a different PSU. Honestly, I don't think it would even boot if those were correct.
 
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Testing when system not under load isn't going to show anything

1. Download , install, run HWiNFO (sensors only)

2. Run Furmark and record max / min voltages after 5 minutes

3. Run RoG Real Bench and again record max / min voltages

If you can't get thru them, start with Memtest 86+
 
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According to event viewer it happened

8/15 at 9:27 PM
8/14 at 6:12 PM
8/12 at 3:44 PM
8/2 at 4:36 PM
7/29 at 9:21 PM

There is others but these seem like ones that wouldn't be me force shutting down
Ram might be possible since it is the oldest part in my pc
And after i put it to sleep minutes later sometime it seems like 10 other times 30 or 40 although it might always be at the same time, it turns back on for like 2 minutes and then off again, and my monitors dont display nothinh and my leds on my kb and mouse arn't lit up. could that also be ram related

 
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Even power supplies that come equipped with digitally reported software like Thermaltake's DPS G Titanium or the Corsair RMi/AXi aren't that accurate. Particularly under higher loads usually, the voltage readings become less accurate and so do the efficiency readings. It seems to me like not even PSU-specific software is accurate. Also, the actual voltage is different for each wire. There is not a single 12V instantaneous voltage value that is consistent for every cable/wire that comes out of the PSU. The cables under heavier loads (such as a PCIe cable during GPU load) will often have worse voltage regulation since they have more resistance than those under less load (molex fan). Most PSU reviewers measure multiple different wires under load and take the averages. Your typical Windows software reading would be taken some distance away from the 12V wires on the 24-pin cable, and they just aren't that accurate ever. The BIOS I'd assume is more trustworthy, but still even. In reality the voltage is jumping around the majority of the time, load is always fluctuating. It's really hard to tell what's going on without expensive equipment.

Plus undervoltage protection would have kicked in had it been that low anyway.
 
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Ok im trying these things!
 
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tried furmark first time i do 1920 by 1080 hit go and it happened again, but after that i tried lowest res and 1920 by 1080 again and it worked fine. odd
 
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Did it happen immediately?
 
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yea i hit go and it shut off but second time it worked just fine no issues

 
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Hmm it's probably not the RAM then. This sounds like it shut down in behavior to heavier GPU load, nothing really to do with RAM, unless some of the RAM allocated for the Furmark process caused trouble, but I wouldn't think so. Does it only happen when you are under heavy load?
 
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not sure the one that happened earlier not the one that happened when i ran furmark, i was just dealing with an internet crash and i was just playing minecraft before that so nothing super intensive like doing video rendering or anything

 
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did real bench just fine. psu is in a basement of case away from everything sucks air from bottom and exausts it out back in its own loop

Specs:
AMD FX6300 cpu
Gigabyte 970A-D3P Mobo
XFX r7 260x GPU
ADATA Ram (not sure what model but it has blue heat spreaders)
asus xonar DG sound card
wd blue 1tb hdd and kingston ssdnow 300 120GB ssd
corsair cx600m PSU
Corsair h60 water cooler
 
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Having it die on go, then change resolution and than **back to 1080p** and it ran fine suggest this is not a hardware problem. I'd consider a fresh OS install..... but after you did a web search on all your event viewer messages using the full text of the error message.
 
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Fresh of install is what i thought
 
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