Question OCCT: Power freezing

[nolockdowntv]

I used to play a lot of War Thunder but then it started constantly crashing on me. The games just freezes completely and I have to hold the power button to reset it. As I never had a problem with Battlefield 1 I assumed it was a problem with WT and have been too busy with work to investigate further. Due to the lock-down I downloaded Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Far Cry 5, now I get the same problem with both of them. I have checked with MSI afterburner and temps are <60 degrees and GPU/CPU are not maxing out.
GPU drivers are up to date and McAfee is not picking anything up. MemTest86 ran without any issue GPU-Z render test ran with no problems
OCCT: occt ran for 1:30h with 0 errors OCCT:Linpack ran without errors 3h OCCT: Memtest also ran for over 1h without errors
OCCT: 3D ran for 530seconds then froze with 0 error count. OCCT: Power also froze the system within 5mins just like the 3d test. As with gaming the system froze and I had to hold the power to reboot. I have run the above tests a number of time with the same result although I did get the 3D test to run for over an hour once.
Very occasionally it gave an bsod but I would say 99% of the time it was just a freeze without (cannot remember the error codes). Sometimes when I restart (holding power button) it will go into a cycle of powering on and off (prior to any beep codes). When this happens I generally have to unplug it for a few mins and then start it again.
One thing I am sure it is not is the power supply. This was my initial suspicion when WT had issues and I changed from beQuiet Straight Power to the Seasonic one I have now.
This has become a bigger issue yesterday when the TV decided to stop working and I have to wait a full week to get a new one delivered.

INTEL Core i3-8100
HyperX Fury DDR4 2666 2x8GB
ASUS B360M-A
KFA2 GTX 1060 OC (6GB)
Seasonic Focus Gold (450W)
ADATA XPG SX8200 240 GB SSD / SEAGATE Barracuda 2 TB HDD

 

[In2Photos]

Sorry to hear your system is not performing well during the lockdown.

First thing I would do is pull the memory and GPU and re-seat them, maybe even clean the contacts using an eraser. If that doesn't help then since you have swapped the power supply my guess would be the mobo or GPU. Any chance you have a spare GPU laying around or could borrow one for a quick test?

 

[nolockdowntv]

Tried both of those. No spare GPU laying around as this is my first build and I do not know anyone else who games/builds their own computers. Will have to wait until some of shops reopen I think and see if I can pick up a second d hand GPU for testing.

 

[nolockdowntv]

out of interest, is there anyway to test between the two? I guess if pull the graphics card and run OCCT power then it will run? Even if the issue is with the mobo?

 

[Ajay]

You need to write down some of those error codes. Maybe then we can help. Oh, and I would use OCCT for testing graphics cards - it just uses Furmark, IIRC - it's not that useful. Just loop Time Spy or something like that.