Shut offs during gaming point to a psu or overheating problem. 

Well I unistalled one of my gtx 980 ti to see if it was power draw problem..... but it shut down with one card as well. 1000w PSU should be able to handle one card at least right? So heat problem? Card feels pretty flipping hot but at the same time I have not adjusted any settings so why would they sell me a card that overheats all the time?
 
 

Awesome so The temp I dont remember but it was high maybe 78C I am not sure was not paying attention. Turned on agressive fan speed control and also while running just 1440k resolution on games such as Arma 3... Pc just shuts down and restarts. With one 980 Ti or with both of them together in SLI... Either way I am getting a shutdown. Mainly gaming though is when I am having issues. I dont know how to check all the logs of my pc shut downs or w/e but yea would love to figure out if I just need more power, or whats exactly the problem so I can fix it and get on with my gaming haha! I would say power but with just 1 card going it still does it?

So I think at last crash on the EVGA PrecisionX 16 the GPU Temp reading was in the 60's maybe 70's at the time of crash. Not sure 100%... But I did touch the card and it was pretty hot. As far as space there is slot between each other thats open so they are not squished. Ultra Durable Gigbyte mobo has plenty space.
So update, playing 1080p, 1440p, 4k have all shut down my pc when gaming. Idle does nothing, reguardless of 1 or both cards in still crashes, and even running in 1080p on arma 3, world of tanks, gta V.. 

Alright so what I have done was installed a program called core temp I think, none of my cores went over 35-45C while gaming... Maybe 47C or 48C very randomly but overall no was not more than that. I didnt see the temp as I got shutdown but I checked it literally 1 min before and all was running fine ( If 45C is Fine). I ran dual R9 270x before these GTX 980 ti Cards that have been shutting down my system, just fine without any problems. I think this is my PSU I have had it a while.   For some reason I think its deleting my link lol.

I'm going to throw this out there, but have you changed anything in your MB bios or updated it recently?

My laptop sometimes gets a little hot and shuts itself down due to the temp setting in the bios... maybe a useless comment, bur definitely worth checking bios for anything...

Keep us updated.

So I have not messed with the bios... not much at all because I do not want to mess things up haha. Just setup raid for my 2 ssd's thats been working fine a while now. Maybe quite possibly 2 of my sticks of ram are not correct? Would that cause problems, becaues I did add them to my pc same time I added the Graphics cards.  
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It sounds like a PSU issue to me. But one last question first...

If you look in your Windows Event Log (Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Event Log) when your system shuts down, are there any critical errors other than Kernel Power 41? If there is a critical error proceeding Kernel Power 41 one or two minutes prior, it may be the source of the problem. On the other hand, if there are no critical errors prior to Kernel Power 41, it means that you didn't have an issue that any software caused or detected and that it is a hardware error most likely caused by a power supply power interruption.

Edit: yes, a memory issue caused by incompatible memory could cause your issue. A memory error should cause a critical event in the event log prior to kernel power. So, like I said, check your event log for critical errors around the same time. If there are multiple critical errors around the same time other than Kernel Power, it could be your memory or something else. If there are no critical errors other than kernel power, it is more likely your power supply simply shutting off randomly.

KingJehan

ty_ger07
CPU temp is what was asked multiple times. I don't know why you keep telling us about your video cards.

If the video cards were overheating, they would just downclock. Or the screen would go black if the video card got really really hot. But the computer would not shut down or reboot if your video cards got very hot.

A shut down usually means that your CPU overheated or your power supply is failing. Your power supply is pretty bad according to what I see online. Either one is likely your cause. So, what is your CPU temp when it shuts down? Don't tell us that it feels warm or feels cool. Use a program such as RealTemp to monitor the temperature and save it to a file so that we can get an actual number.

I would lean towards a power supply issue if it were my guess. Here is a fun read for you about the XION 700W. For your consideration and reading pleasure. :)

I am not sure, what I meant was if it was PSU then why would I crash either having 1 card or 2 cards at about the same time frame into the game. Reason I am talking about the cards is because couldnt my 1 PSU handle at least 1 card... Its not even doing that ? But it handles 2 R9 270x's just fine.

Please see my post above about windows event log.

But to answer your question directly, a bad power supply is a bad power supply. It could reset at any time for any reason. The number of graphics cards wouldn't necessarily have a large affect on the bad behavior.

KingJehan

ty_ger07
CPU temp is what was asked multiple times. I don't know why you keep telling us about your video cards.

If the video cards were overheating, they would just downclock. Or the screen would go black if the video card got really really hot. But the computer would not shut down or reboot if your video cards got very hot.

A shut down usually means that your CPU overheated or your power supply is failing. Your power supply is pretty bad according to what I see online. Either one is likely your cause. So, what is your CPU temp when it shuts down? Don't tell us that it feels warm or feels cool. Use a program such as RealTemp to monitor the temperature and save it to a file so that we can get an actual number.

I would lean towards a power supply issue if it were my guess. Here is a fun read for you about the XION 700W. For your consideration and reading pleasure. :)

I am not sure, what I meant was if it was PSU then why would I crash either having 1 card or 2 cards at about the same time frame into the game. Reason I am talking about the cards is because couldnt my 1 PSU handle at least 1 card... Its not even doing that ? But it handles 2 R9 270x's just fine.

Please see my post above about windows event log.

But to answer your question directly, a bad power supply is a bad power supply. It could reset at any time for any reason. The number of graphics cards wouldn't necessarily have a large affect on the bad behavior.

So I just spent $1400 on cards I cannot run.. I'd rather not spend another $400 on a PSU.. any good cheap ones that would work? At least a good bang for my buck?
 

KingJehan
Let me ask you this would Ram affect it? I think the extra 2 sticks of ram I added to my PC was having issues in my wife computer. Hers wouldnt start up figured it was PSU or RAM So i replaced both at the same time on hers and it works. Now I am using that ram in my pc and I think I installed it when I installed the new Cards.
 

Like I said, yes, RAM could affect it. But, like I also said, if you had a RAM problem, you should see other errors about unhandled exceptions or buffer overflows preceeding the Kernel Power error. The RAM shouldn't cause a hardware fault without preceeding logged errors. You have no preceeding logged errors and therefore RAM is not likely your problem.

But, to be sure, change your RAM back to the way it used to be and test again.

Here's a few good choices of many.  All under $200.00...
 
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151110
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817438036
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA24G28N6545
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139057
 

Those are all 1000w PSU, I wouldnt need a 1200W Psu? And I ran arma 3 good without crashing then tried a smaller game and crashed 2 times. So dunno bout that. // Update when going 4k full screen is when my pc shut down 2 times now from 2 different games
 
 

KingJehan
Those are all 1000w PSU, I wouldnt need a 1200W Psu? And I ran arma 3 good without crashing then tried a smaller game and crashed 2 times. So dunno bout that. // Update when going 4k full screen is when my pc shut down 2 times now from 2 different games
 
 

i run 850w gold power supply with my 980 ti's just fine