Assassinator Wrote:

Tried to overclock, and couldn't even do a measly 5%. Crashed 2hr into stress test. Probably mostly due to a combination of my box, fan and power supply being poo poo, or maybe the motherboard, which runs quite hot. What's weird is that Prime95 never returns an error, the whole system just crashes with no signs of error whatsoever. And when the system crashes, it cannot be turned on without completely draining the power. That is, pressing the start or restart button does nothing. Only way to start it again is to pull the power cord, and put it back in. I'm thinking it probably has something to do with the motherboard or power supply rather than the CPU or memory, due to the weird behaviour of the crash. I'm going to try underclock the memory and the cpu one by one to try to isolate the problem.

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I crashed during an encode not even being overclocked. Same problem. And this time afterwards, it took 3 rounds of taking the power out to get it to start. The other 2 times it just powered on for like 1 second and turned off again.

I'm seriously doubting this crappy power supply, which I can't even identify the brand of. I'm going to borrow my brothers for a while and test it to see if my suspicions are correct.