Temperature Problem!

[DMB2000uk]

You haven't told us what PSU you have, could you tell us please.

Dan

[DJ Tucker]

ezcool tornado 800w is my psu. and it still telling me that i have 150watts free power lol.

[DMB2000uk]

I don't know where they get away with labelling that as a 800W unit, as it's more like a 600W unit, and looking at the specs you've got probably a maximum of 350W of usable 12v power. Which is the most important rail for modern PCs (most of the load is on there).

Are all the 12v devices balanced across both 12v rails as best they can be (i.e. split the load across both rails)? If they are balanced, you should be able to get away with using that PSU. Your cut outs could be due to too many high power 12v devices being on just one rail and so the PSU is having to shut down to protect itself.

Dan

[martini161]

i wouldnt trust that psu on my cheapest rig

[DJ Tucker]

this is the link to the psu i got let me know what you think guys!

http://www.eclipsecomputers.com/product ... 0TOR&af=50

[DMB2000uk]

I don't know where they get away with labelling that as a 800W unit, as it's more like a 600W unit, and looking at the specs you've got probably a maximum of 350W of usable 12v power. Which is the most important rail for modern PCs (most of the load is on there).

Are all the 12v devices balanced across both 12v rails as best they can be (i.e. split the load across both rails)? If they are balanced, you should be able to get away with using that PSU. Your cut outs could be due to too many high power 12v devices being on just one rail and so the PSU is having to shut down to protect itself.

Dan

[martini161]

i wouldnt trust that psu on my cheapest rig

[DJ Tucker]

this is the link to the psu i got let me know what you think guys!

http://www.eclipsecomputers.com/product ... 0TOR&af=50

by the way when i gpu heats up on high graphical games like crysis, jericho and that my pc will still turn off. i noticed my gpu's will get up to almost 80c and off it goes

[DMB2000uk]

I don't know where they get away with labelling that as a 800W unit, as it's more like a 600W unit, and looking at the specs you've got probably a maximum of 350W of usable 12v power. Which is the most important rail for modern PCs (most of the load is on there).

Are all the 12v devices balanced across both 12v rails as best they can be (i.e. split the load across both rails)? If they are balanced, you should be able to get away with using that PSU. Your cut outs could be due to too many high power 12v devices being on just one rail and so the PSU is having to shut down to protect itself.

Dan

[martini161]

i wouldnt trust that psu on my cheapest rig

[DMB2000uk]

Is it just me or is there and echo in here?

In all seriousness though..

Notice that at times when your system is shutting off, the GPU might be getting hot, but it's also when the rest of the system is doing a lot of work and drawing a lot of power.

Try grabbing ORTHOS stress tester, and also ATITool. Run both at the same time (run the 3d view button), while keeping ATITool's fluffy cube window the window in focus. Leave them on for a bit and see if your PC reboots/shuts off.

Dan

[martini161]

this is the link to the psu i got let me know what you think guys!

http://www.eclipsecomputers.com/product ... 0TOR&af=50

by the way when i gpu heats up on high graphical games like crysis, jericho and that my pc will still turn off. i noticed my gpu's will get up to almost 80c and off it goes

thats because in order for it to get that hot, it has to pull tons of power which is making that subpar psu s*** bricks and turn your computer off

[DJ Tucker]

have done both tests together and pc got very hot but never shut down. both test i did for 1 hour. gpu heated up to 80c and cpu heated up to 48c.

[martini161]

ati tools probably only stressing one card, try running two of them

[DMB2000uk]

have done both tests together and pc got very hot but never shut down. both test i did for 1 hour. gpu heated up to 80c and cpu heated up to 48c.

Which should be enough to show you that it's not a temp related problem.

Dan

[martini161]

how about this, go out and buy yourself a quality PSU and i bet the problem goes away. if it doesnt then well i am a officially a moron.

[DJ Tucker]

i might just do that once i get some money though lol. thx for the help guys.