Hard Freeze While Using Computer. Caused by bad wall power?

Jeshua

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Hey all-

Recently, I've been having problems with my computer while playing games like Overwatch. It will hard freeze, responding to no input from the keyboard to the point that I have to press the refresh button. So far, it has only happened in this game, and an example of what crashes look like can be found here (Not my video, but same symptoms): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5x2r34QvSo&

My specs are as follows:
i7 6700K
RD400 240GB
WD Black 1 TB
ASRock Z170M Extreme4
Gigabyte GTX 1070 G1
Corsair RM850x

This system was built one month ago. However, these same problems plagued my old build from 3 years ago and once again only seemed to occur in Overwatch as far as I can remember. I don't know if this is the cause, but I'm beginning to suspect bad wall power as the culprit. Any other ideas? Thanks!
 
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When you did your clean boot did you have any other programs running at the same time like fraps, streaming software, recording software or the like?

Power conditioner is basically a capacitor hooked in line to the PSU. A descent UPS will condition the power along with providing a backup power source for power failures/brownouts.

Jeshua

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Ran the memtest, it found no problems. I also conducted a clean boot, which did not fix the issue.



I was thinking about that, but would a power conditioner do the same job? I'm on a budget, so that savings would help. And regarding the components, all of them are new, with the exception of the wall power cable, which I reused.
 
When you did your clean boot did you have any other programs running at the same time like fraps, streaming software, recording software or the like?

Power conditioner is basically a capacitor hooked in line to the PSU. A descent UPS will condition the power along with providing a backup power source for power failures/brownouts.
 
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Jeshua

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As far as I'm aware, no. I think I will be purchasing a UPS and seeing if that fixes the issue.