Random computer shutdown while playing PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[☢~Ma$$er~☢]

Just checking if anyone else has experienced their PC's randomely turning off while playing ARMA 3 recently ? This just recently happend to me while running a scenario and my HIGH END gaming PC just all of a sudden turned off for the first time ever, then powered back on -all by itself - no shutdown screen at all, just ARAM 3 action then PC just shuts off - i started getting paniked ans then did an actual Shut Down, and it hasnt happend again yet but im am quite concerned - For the love of god CAN SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME !!!!
SPECS:
ASUS ROG Maximus Formula V mobo
i7 3770K overclocked to 4.6Ghz ( @ 1.265V)
GTX TITAN overclocked to 1163 MHz (GPU) 3305 MHz( mem clock)
RAM- Patriot Viper 3 16Gb 2133MHz
Corsair H100i AIO cooler
Corsair TX850M
ADATA 250GB SSD
* All temps on GPU and CPU were being monitored and were perfectly stable and fine when these random turn offs occured - Have been playing ARMA 3 beta for a long time with some long late night gaming sessions and this just happend this evening for the first time. please help!!!

[Pèpè Silvia]

Have you run any stress tests i.e. Prime95, FurMark, RamTest, etc.? Really the only way to be sure if it's not HW related

[☢~Ma$$er~☢]

Thanks for response - well ,Prime 95 ran for an hour which i tried before i posted , Firestrike scored 10602 which i ran three times and only differed by 50 "marks" and mem test i have yet to try - this really killing me man , now i gotta try to go to bed without solving the problem to get up for work - Tried ARMA 3 again and PC turned off again AGAIN !!! WTF!

[Pèpè Silvia]

you might try disabling your overclocks temporarly just to narrow it down more

[Turnip Lord]

this is almost definitely a PSU problem. if you have just recently started overclocking hardware components, that's probably the cause. if not, than it's likely just an old/malfunctioning power supply giving out. your PSU is extremely good but it still happens to the best sometimes.

[☢~Ma$$er~☢]

yeah i really hope its just the PSU , strangley enought it only seems to happen while playing ARMA 3 , no other game causes it , not Metro Last Light , Payday 2 or even COH2 - All other games seem fine , except my favorite game ARMA 3 - just gotta figure this out

[Turnip Lord]

Originally posted by General Warmachine:

yeah i really hope its just the PSU , strangley enought it only seems to happen while playing ARMA 3 , no other game causes it , not Metro Last Light , Payday 2 or even COH2 - All other games seem fine , except my favorite game ARMA 3 - just gotta figure this out

none of the games you listed are CPU intensive games. whereas arma 3 is not only one of the most demanding (and currently poorly optimized) games, but it also does about 80% of it's processing on the CPU and barely touches anything else. so, again, this could be directly linked to your CPU overclock.

[Robin Hood and his Merry Men]

You're CPU is gonna die, you messed up your overclock. Time to buy a new CPU and try to OC properly again.

[Preacher Boy]

I agree it sounds like the psu is packing up had similar problem with mine but 4.6 with only 1.265 voltsseems low no? ignore the muppet above.

Nice rig you have though.

I have the same pasu as you adn there no that great to be honest, i read some reviews and its not that great but i got it cheap so beggers cant be chooses


CPU - FX6300 "Piledriver" AM3+ Six Core CPU Overclocked @ 4500MHZ. Black Edition. 4 x 140mm fans (2xtop, 1xbottom,1xside), 2x 92mm fans (2xfront), 1x CoolIT Eco II CPU liquid cooling system (92mm). stable running prime 12 hours max temp 38c idles 7-9c v 1.320.
MEM - RipJaws X 16GB (2x8GB) PC3-14900C10 (1866MHz Dual Channel). timings 10.11.10.30
GPU - GeForce GTX480 MHz Clock, 480 CUDA Cores,900 core 2000MHZ Memory, 384Bit, DX11, 1.5GB Memory.(overclocked)
Motherboard - M5A97 LE R2.0 AMD 970 Chipset, socket AM3+.
SSD - Samsung 830 Series 128GB SSD. Arma 3 on here !
HDD - 1 7200.10 500GB Capacity 7200 rpm, SATAII ST3500630AS ( RAID ).
HHD - 2 7200.10 500GB Capacity 7200 rpm, SATAII ST3500630AS ( RAID ).
POWER - Corsair CMPSU-850TX 850-Watt TX Series 80 Plus Certified Power.
Optical Driver - Pioneer BDC202 Blu-ray Drive SATA, Blu-ray reader, DVD+-RW.
Case - Fractal Design Define R2 Black Pearl

[Stone_313]

Have you tried the memtest yet?

My last general "random shutdowns" happened due to faulty RAM.. So might wanna run few passes with memtest just to be sure..

[FrankOBeans]

hey man same thing was going on with me and all i did was redownload it and works fine now.

[Stone_313]

Originally posted by Marc:

I have the same pasu as you adn there no that great to be honest, i read some reviews and its not that great but i got it cheap so beggers cant be chooses

POWER - Corsair CMPSU-850TX 850-Watt TX Series 80 Plus Certified Power.

"Not that great"? O.o

Corsair is among the best when it comes to making PSU's, you know..

http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews/power_supply/corsair_tx850w_atx_psu/1

Snippet from the conclusion..

"The first words that spring to mind are WOW WOW WOW. The TX850 is really that good. During room temperature testing, the voltage stability was excellent with all rails staying extremely close to their ideal values. Even when placing the unit in some nasty crossloading situations, it just wouldn't flinch and continued to provide rock solid voltages on the most important rails."

[RLeeErmey]

If a computer shuts down like that its overheating.. then you mention you are overclocking.. yeah theres your problem..

[Stone_313]

Originally posted by SGT R Lee Ermey:

If a computer shuts down like that its overheating.. then you mention you are overclocking.. yeah theres your problem..

He did mention that he has been monitoring the temps and they are stable. And even with long playing sessions before the PC hasn't shutdown like that..

[RLeeErmey]

Temperature sensors are not always accurate or reliable.

[Robin Hood and his Merry Men]

It doesn't matter if the temps are stable now. You can permenantly damage the CPU by having too high of a voltage at one point. There are certain voltages you are never suppose to put into your CPU. It shortens the life of the CPU dramatically.

I'm not trolling, I'm just telling the truth. My message to the OP, have you checked your thermal paste? Try re-applying it and test it again. Sometimes the problem is something very simple but overlooked.