"Grindintosecond" (Grindintosecond)
04/19/2020 at 17:23 • Filed to: None
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"Grindintosecond" (Grindintosecond)
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My new 2070 super was causing reboots in games after a few minutes. Yet it would fold at 100% both card and cpu. The symptom was more like PSU issues but it delivered the power. Yet I couldn’t discount it’s 11 years of age, 4 out of warranty, and near 24/7 use it’s whole life. Time to pull and replace random parts!
I had pulled the new card and gone back to the old 1070. No issues. Perfect. But it was still an old PSU and I can’t discount it as a possible problem....ripped that out.
I need to protect my next ten years with a new unit and new decade warranty. In went an EVGA 850gq. Yes it’s way more power than I need but there’s not many choices in stock anywhere of the same quality. Out with a Corsair hx850 that was $200 new and top line gear (free. A contest prize)
A radiator cleanout, general dusting. And waaay more re-cabling than I thought.
No crashes now. Things are fine. I’ll give it 2 days to evaluate. Otherwise I’m back on the big folder card again and set for many updateless years to come. But it looks like transient voltage regulation was the sour spot. Where folding just needs steady state power, games need wild fluctuations immediately, something that extra 70 watts over my last card demanded.
jminer
> Grindintosecond
04/19/2020 at 19:01 |
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Nicely done!
Random crashed caused by a sketchy PSU are some of the hardest to track down.
facw
> Grindintosecond
04/19/2020 at 19:17 |
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I just replaced a 2006 vintage 430W PSU that wasn’t playing nice with my 5500XT with a new 500W unit, which seems to have solved the issue. Honestly 430W should be plenty (I rarely see loads greater than 200W), but it’s got the 12V split across multiple rails that aren’t that powerful, so I’d guess I was bumping up against that limit, the new one claims to be able to deliver up to the full 500W to the single 12 volt rail . In any event, 14 years is probably good enough from a power supply.
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Grindintosecond
> facw
04/19/2020 at 19:54 |
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Plus, 2006 vintage means you might have had close to 430 watts, but, like my 2009 unit, you probably didnt have good regulartion of it. Age isn’t nice to electronics over long times. Also a chance you didn’t have all 430 watts either. Power and stability losses go up with heat which goes up with dust and age.
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Grindintosecond
> jminer
04/19/2020 at 19:55 |
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Blue screens are generally memory, artifacts and then a reboot are usually graphics, but just an instant black screen reboot?....thats usually psu behavior. If it was a newer PSU, I don’t know if I would have diagnosed it like I did. I probably would have returned the card, ordered something else that shows up a week later, and have the same problems again.....