Hi, I have an Ultra X3 1000W Power Supply.
I think it is the Power supply that is causing the problem but please give me some insight into this problem.
I am running a GTX 280 with a Q9550 Quad Core processor (stock cooling), 4GB of Patriot 1066MHz DDR3 RAM, one 10k RPM Hard Drive, a Razer Barracuda Sound Card, and this PSU. Motherboard is an EVGA 790i Ultra.
My case is a Coolermaster Cosmos 1000, and I'm running air cooling.
OS is Vista Ultimate 64-Bit (inb4 sucker)
I run at a 1920x1200 Resolution, and if I don't have a desk fan running into my case, I get either a sound looping, graphics frozen crash (which I think is due to graphics card overheating) or a system shutoff (which I think is from the PSU failing?). This only happens when I am playing graphically-intensive games (like TF2 - more looping sound/occasional shut offs, MW2 sometimes, L4D2 sometimes), and I am not getting any BSODs. It's as if I pulled the plug. I then have to press the power button twice to turn it back on.
I'd better add that I was experiencing problems in the past and it turns out that it was a design error and they replaced the defected PSU, yet I'm still experiencing shutoff problems. Also, how can I fix the freezing in-game?
What could be the problem and what should I do? It's driving me nuts.
P.S. While I'm here, I guess I'll ask this too. I tried overclocking my CPU, but when I reboot (either manually or through this problem), the values would reset back to stock, why is this?
I think it is the Power supply that is causing the problem but please give me some insight into this problem.
I am running a GTX 280 with a Q9550 Quad Core processor (stock cooling), 4GB of Patriot 1066MHz DDR3 RAM, one 10k RPM Hard Drive, a Razer Barracuda Sound Card, and this PSU. Motherboard is an EVGA 790i Ultra.
My case is a Coolermaster Cosmos 1000, and I'm running air cooling.
OS is Vista Ultimate 64-Bit (inb4 sucker)
I run at a 1920x1200 Resolution, and if I don't have a desk fan running into my case, I get either a sound looping, graphics frozen crash (which I think is due to graphics card overheating) or a system shutoff (which I think is from the PSU failing?). This only happens when I am playing graphically-intensive games (like TF2 - more looping sound/occasional shut offs, MW2 sometimes, L4D2 sometimes), and I am not getting any BSODs. It's as if I pulled the plug. I then have to press the power button twice to turn it back on.
I'd better add that I was experiencing problems in the past and it turns out that it was a design error and they replaced the defected PSU, yet I'm still experiencing shutoff problems. Also, how can I fix the freezing in-game?
What could be the problem and what should I do? It's driving me nuts.
P.S. While I'm here, I guess I'll ask this too. I tried overclocking my CPU, but when I reboot (either manually or through this problem), the values would reset back to stock, why is this?
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