Random Computer/Game Crashes Daily

[TheHeroicZ]

Interesting, though. Usually motherboard parts are the coolest, mine doesnt get hotter than 36 - 40c under stress. What mobo is it? That sounds... dangerous hitting 80+c lol

Idk, I may still want to contact the warranty department, 80C on the motherboard just isn't right

It's a gigabyte mobo. I think the fans they installed are just garbage. We've dealt with this company several times over the several months including THREE RMA's for bad GPU's so we've given up and so we got better fans on the way. We got the build cheap on black friday as well. So it may not be under warranty anymore.

 

[Jugginator]

It's a gigabyte mobo. I think the fans they installed are just garbage. We've dealt with this company several times over the several months including THREE RMA's for bad GPU's so we've given up and so we got better fans on the way. We got the build cheap on black friday as well. So it may not be under warranty anymore.

Hmm. Maybe try to see if gigabyte will RMA it. Honestly, if I turn all my fans off my motherboard still doesn't get much above 40, my cpu or gpu will peg out on max temps long before my mobo gets warm, well, that's including the other one I had in my secondary rig and the one in my gf's computer she games on and I use as another test rig sometimes. Could be wrong tho, maybe that model just gets hot and needs extra cooling. 

Side note, I really hate most manufacturers for consumer level computers... they just don't care. It's sad.

 

[Fox]

I had a hunch it might of been the motherboard given the name brand, especially since we ruled out the ram.

With Gygabyte having a terrible reputation lately for exploding PSUs and using cheap parts on budget products (but do their best to at least make them look good)... it makes sense that a pre-built system with the cheapest parts would result in possible issues like this.

Best solution is to replace the motherboard with a different name brand motherboard (Asus or MSI are usually pretty good). Just make sure all the other parts are compatible with it.

Quick fix, more case fans... drill some holes if the front panel is stupidly made in a way that blocks airflow. If it's all glass, then well, remove that glass I guess.

Dice roll fix, it's possible it could be as simple as bad thermal paste on the hot component where the heatsink is placed on. If no heatsink, then buy one, if thermal paste is applied, you could try to find a larger compatible heatsink to replace it with. This solution could be quite the hassle though.

Keep in mind that just keeping the temps low enough to prevent it from crashing doesn't mean damage couldn't still happen long term. Try to find a way to dramatically lower that temperature so as to not have to revisit this issue again in the future.

 

[Fox]

Side note, I really hate most manufacturers for consumer level computers... they just don't care. It's sad.

Totally agree with you there... so many bad companies out there, so few good ones.

 

[Jugginator]

Totally agree with you there... so many bad companies out there, so few good ones.

Yeah... you'd think with how expensive rigs are they would put a little effort into customer care and quality but nope.

Also, I think most motherboards have a thermal limit at 80c 

 

[FinkPloyd]

Running XMP or any altered ram timings/frequencies? May be worth going into your BIOS and running a "default settings". 

The last new PC I worked on that had stability issues when XMP was enabled and a Gigabyte motherboard required a BIOS update to fix.

Was fine in some games, others crashed at random intervals.

Hardware monitors showed no issues (ie not throttling due to heat / power).

Also, I think most motherboards have a thermal limit at 80c 

Depends on which bit of the board is hot. Some are unstable at more than 45c ambient.

I used to design asset protection systems for mining / heavy haul rail to use in remote / harsh environments (ie in the Aussie outback) where ambient temp often exceeds 50c. Some companies would use a standard desktop PC and wonder why it would crash around mid morning each day...

 

[Jugginator]

The last new PC I worked on that had stability issues when XMP was enabled and a Gigabyte motherboard required a BIOS update to fix.

Was fine in some games, others crashed at random intervals.

Hardware monitors showed no issues (ie not throttling due to heat / power).

Depends on which bit of the board is hot. Some are unstable at more than 45c ambient.

I used to design asset protection systems for mining / heavy haul rail to use in remote / harsh environments (ie in the Aussie outback) where ambient temp often exceeds 50c. Some companies would use a standard desktop PC and wonder why it would crash around mid morning each day...

Yeah I have a Asrock b350 something or the other can't recall atm that's in my secondary rig that doesn't like the ryzen zen+ in it with 2x 16gb sticks running at 3200 with reasonable timings, RAM is a finicky beast when it comes to fine tuning heh. Thanks for the share on that knowledge, I wasn't quite up to par on motherboard temps, never had to worry about them even when overclocking lol, was always instability and sometimes heat on the cpu.