Before I go out and purchase a new power supply I figured I might as well confirm my suspicions in here or do further research. Recently my PC has BSOD'd a few times when having the displays woken up from standby. I don't ever actually have the PC go to sleep just the displays go to standby after 15 minutes. I thought that since it had just occurred after I installed the most recent AMD beta drivers that they were the cause of the problem.
So I removed the drivers in safe mode and then installed the new ones. This did not fix the problem after a few tries so I figured it was something else. It wouldn't make much sense that it was temperature related but I did double check and all components are running well within tolerance for temperature. The GPU maxes out at about 62 degrees under a full load with the CPU maxing out around 56 to 58 degrees.
So I decided to check all of my connections just in case something had gotten knocked loose. I didn't notice any loose connections but I did switch around the two PCIe connectors that go into my video card. Both are 6+2 connectors and I think they're operating off the same rail although I could be incorrect. After switching the two connectors the PC now properly turns on the displays after coming out of standby and doesn't BSOD'd with driver crashes. I suppose it's possible that one of the connections was loose even though it didn't seem that way but I'm thinking otherwise. Should I start looking for a new power supply? I was hoping to get one from Microcenter but they don't seem to carry SeaSonic PSUs atm and I'm not too sure about getting another Corsair (at least a CX series) if this one happens to be failing.
These are the ones I'm currently looking at:
Rosewill CAPSTONE 550 M
EVGA 500 B
SeaSonic S12II 520
I'm currently running with a 600 watt PSU but I would think a good 500 watt PSU should be enough for the system in my sig. I'm aware that should I choose to SLI/CrossFire in the future the PSU will have to be upgraded but that's not planned at this time.
So I removed the drivers in safe mode and then installed the new ones. This did not fix the problem after a few tries so I figured it was something else. It wouldn't make much sense that it was temperature related but I did double check and all components are running well within tolerance for temperature. The GPU maxes out at about 62 degrees under a full load with the CPU maxing out around 56 to 58 degrees.
So I decided to check all of my connections just in case something had gotten knocked loose. I didn't notice any loose connections but I did switch around the two PCIe connectors that go into my video card. Both are 6+2 connectors and I think they're operating off the same rail although I could be incorrect. After switching the two connectors the PC now properly turns on the displays after coming out of standby and doesn't BSOD'd with driver crashes. I suppose it's possible that one of the connections was loose even though it didn't seem that way but I'm thinking otherwise. Should I start looking for a new power supply? I was hoping to get one from Microcenter but they don't seem to carry SeaSonic PSUs atm and I'm not too sure about getting another Corsair (at least a CX series) if this one happens to be failing.
These are the ones I'm currently looking at:
Rosewill CAPSTONE 550 M
EVGA 500 B
SeaSonic S12II 520
I'm currently running with a 600 watt PSU but I would think a good 500 watt PSU should be enough for the system in my sig. I'm aware that should I choose to SLI/CrossFire in the future the PSU will have to be upgraded but that's not planned at this time.
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