Ageing Power supply

Slippery said:

Hi @worf105, another vote for the newer corsair PSU's. If you go that way, read the specs on the 2 different RM gold series. One uses 100% Japanese transistors, the other not.
A SWAG on your problem, since we have very similar builds except I have a regular vid card.
I sometimes get BSOD's with same symptoms your having when fooling around with overclock formulas. It always turns out to be low voltage.(one of my prime OC prerequisites is keeping overvolting to a minimum because of NO $ for letting the smoke out of any hardware LOL) This happened with my old Corsair PSU which was also a Corsair 850. I replaced it with the new one in my sig and that quirky problem still exists if I push CPU or VID too far on too little voltage.You might try raising voltage just a teany tiny nudge and see if problem goes away.

Ps: The PSU in my sig is the model with the 100% Japanese transistors but does not have the "control with Corsair Link software" because Corsair Link is too flaky to burden with more work. The 11 year old TX 850 PSU still works 100%. I just wanted full modular (no room for cables in economy case.

Cheers Slippery for you insights, will investigate further.

I have used Corsair, Seasonic, and Evga. Get one that has the best sale price, and will meet your future needs.

In my main rig I have a Corsair 750w never had any problems with it :)

worf105 said:

Thanks Doug. Still testing system. All tests are passing with flying colours. Still believe it's the psu while under sustained load dips below for split second causing the problem. Unable to load my system enough while trying to monitor what's going on in real time. Will be buying a new power supply as this is getting on in years anyway.

Have you tried running AIDA or Prime95 and something like looping Heaven or Superposition at the same time?

Looking at https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B017RO3D..._PxvpzbRY28VBJ

and https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01BGG5P..._vxvpzbTC85J2G

My Favourite so far http://www.corsair.com/en-gb/rmx-ser...ly-modular-psu available from https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B015PWMT..._EpwpzbND9VNFZ

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