Interesting... I've used 2 different CPUs in this system over the years and the crashing has been across both - so it's probably not that. I think I've also swapped ram at some point, but that's easy so I'll just re-seat it to bu sure. I don't think I've ever touched the GPU so maybe re-seating it & the riser would help. Worth a try, at least. Thanks!
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It's a SFF case so I can only use SFX psu instead of normal sized ones. That limits my options a lot, but I'll see if I can't find a bigger one.
Interesting, it's a bit hard to test as the crashes are super un-reproducable. (I don't think I've ever been able to produce a crash with a synthetic benchmark or the like). Any recommendations for testing? Or do I just have to run the system for a while in each state and keep track myself?
Yeah. I've been desperately avoiding trying the GPU directly in the slot since the whole thing is water cooled w/ a custom loop and I don't want to drain & re-plumb it. I might have to though, ugh. Next PC I build is going to be 100% air cooled haha
Yeah I was kind of thinking that too, but I don't have evidence to back it up! Anyway, I'll look around and see if there are issues with this model
It's about 4 years old, so not new but not crazy old. I'm also in a SFF case so I'm using a PCIE riser, which could also be the issue. Do you know, is there a way to tell if it's the riser or the PSU? I can run memtest to check the memory.
I imagine it's getting enough airflow. It's a sff case, but the fans blow right over the PSU so it's probably fine... Would there be a way to tell if it's overheating?
Do you think 750W would cut it? Corsair makes a 750W version of the PSU I'm using so it would be an easy drop-in replacement
Yeah seems like a good move, Corsair makes a 750W version of this PSU that's comparable with the same cables - so I could swap without even having to re-do my cable runs! Seems like it's worth a try. Hopefully I can get it somewhere local though, as I hate returning stuff in the mail. Thanks!
You could try getting a Chromebook and installing whatever distro you want on there? I know it doesn’t avoid the pre-installed spyware, but at least it’s free so you’re not loosing money paying for a license. And Chromebooks these days are made in a wide range from very inexpensive to sorta-premium.
I've done a whole bunch of things but the problem is that the issue w/ the OS locking up was intermittent, so really between every change I would have to wait and see and risk downtime.
I've thought about that before, I've used proxmox in the past and liked it. The hope I guess would be that proxmox is better able to handle the physical hardware than Unraid is, and the Unraid can blissfully mismanage it's vCPUs all it wants! I don't love the overhead of having a hypervisor, but maybe it would be worth it in this case.
It's a water-cooled SFF build so thermals can be an issue. Maybe somewhere something is getting too hot, it's a decent theory. I'll try building up a bunch of heat in the case to see if that increases instability. Thanks!