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recently my pc started to shuts down while gaming, but not always...
The first time this happened was while trying Doom 2016 at Steam Play launch (so around august 22nd). Then this happens regularly playing "The tower of time" if I set the resolution higher than 720p, but this happens anyway less frequently with this game.
The strange thing is that I completely finished ELEX playing 80 hours without having problems, even with very long game sessions (hours), just some days before the first abnormal shut down. I noticed that ELEX was a bit prone to crash lately, but this could be related to DXVK. Also tried lots of other games before (The Witcher 3, RiME, lots of DirectX 9 games) without problems.
I'll test more games and report what I found.
Temperatures seems ok, given that here in South Italy is currently summer with a temperature between 25-28 C. When I play I put a ventilator in front of my PC (because it throws hot air under my desk where are my legs).
I checked temperatures while playing "The tower of time" and nothing seemed wrong to me.
Temperatures while writing this post:
amdgpu-pci-0100
Adapter: PCI adapter
vddgfx: +0.97 V
fan1: 738 RPM
temp1: +38.0°C (crit = +94.0°C, hyst = -273.1°C)
power1: 32.02 W (cap = 155.00 W)
k10temp-pci-00c3
Adapter: PCI adapter
temp1: +14.5°C (high = +70.0°C)
(crit = +70.0°C, hyst = +69.0°C)
fam15h_power-pci-00c4
Adapter: PCI adapter
power1: N/A (crit = 95.09 W)
This is my configuration:
CPU: AMD A10-7850K
RAM: 15GB DDR3 1800mhz
GPU: Sapphire AMD RX 580 4GB
SSD: Samsung EVO 860
HDD: 2 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB (RAID 1)
PSU: Antec 650 watt (80 bronze plus) (takes air from below and send it on the back, completely separated)
Fan: 6 fan regulating air flow this way: 2 front (air in), 2 on the cpu (send air to the back fan), 1 back (air out), 1 over (air out)
Should I buy a new PSU?
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Did a quick test running Red Faction: Guerrila remarstered and The Witcher 3.
Here's the temp with TW3:
amdgpu-pci-0100
Adapter: PCI adapter
vddgfx: +1.17 V
fan1: 2062 RPM
temp1: +76.0°C (crit = +94.0°C, hyst = -273.1°C)
power1: 154.12 W (cap = 155.00 W)
k10temp-pci-00c3
Adapter: PCI adapter
temp1: +39.4°C (high = +70.0°C)
(crit = +70.0°C, hyst = +69.0°C)
fam15h_power-pci-00c4
Adapter: PCI adapter
power1: N/A (crit = 95.09 W)
I'll check psensor and report ASAP.
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Do a simple crontab script to write temprature to log file periodically and see if it spikes
My Nvidia card works fine even hot but my AMD FX 8350 tends to shut itself down if it runs hot (especially in summer)
[razing@bluepyramid discord]$ crontab -l
*/5 * * * * /home/razing/Projects/temp.sh
[razing@bluepyramid discord]$ cat /home/razing/Projects/temp.sh
#!/bin/bash
#script to run senors every X minutes to display temp
NAME=$(date)
sensors > /home/razing/Projects/temp/"$NAME.log"
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At first I played The Witcher 3 for 20 minutes, ten the PC shut down. So I waited few hours to let everything cool down.
Because my CPU has an integrated GPU, I removed my discrete GPU and tested again "Tower of time" on the same level. Everything worked well, apart, of course, lower FPS. My case was open.
Then I installed again my GPU, completely removing obstacles into the case (even the back covers for the other PCI slots), and, still with the open case, I launched again "Tower of time". I played for nearly 2 hours in windowed mode to check sensors.
Temperature was still around 65-70°C, but my PC worked as expected. I noticed that the reported fan1 RPM where low, around 850 RPM when temp was around or over 70°C. Actually in idle is running at 33°C with 730 RPM. That's very strange.
Tomorrow I'll check with my PC case closed.
Thanks a lot for all the help and advices you are giving me, it's much appreciated!
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After playing successfully with "Tower of time" yesterday, right after I run The Witcher 3 and the PC shut down after ~30 minutes. I noticed that the GPU temperature was around 70°C but the GPU fan where spinning slow (at 740-800 RPM).
I run a memtest86+ and it passed.
I'm now doing some test using the 4.14 kernel instead of the 4.18.
Instead of the PSU, I highly suspect is the GPU the problem.