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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by nopersonalspace@lemmy.world to c/buildapc@lemmy.world

I've been experiencing instability with my system, and I'm beginning to suspect that the PSU is either faulty or under-provisioned. I'll get random crashes (reboots, more specifically), mostly when doing something intensive on the system like starting up a game. Looking at all the crash logs, I can't really find any errors that make sense to me. When the system goes down, all the lights & fans all die at the same time as the screen, then after a couple of seconds it comes back on and reboots.

I have a Corsair SF600 SFX PSU which is only 600W, and I'm powering a Ryzen 3700x, a AMD 5700XT GPU, a 1TB M.2 SSD, 32G ddr4 memory, 2 case fans, and a water-cooling pump. Plugging all of that into a calculator says that 600W is exactly enough, but is that right? Or could power-usage spikes be pushing things over the edge?

Edit: Sorry, CPU is a 3800X not 3700X. Just FYI

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[-] Treczoks@kbin.social 2 points 8 months ago

Crashes under intensive loads can be almost anything: Thermal, Memory, f-ed up Harddisk/SSD, Mainboard, etc.

Try to eliminate each single cause: Heat the PC with a hair dryer without giving it a high load, run memtest, etc.

[-] nopersonalspace@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

It's a water-cooled SFF build so thermals can be an issue. Maybe somewhere something is getting too hot, it's a decent theory. I'll try building up a bunch of heat in the case to see if that increases instability. Thanks!

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