Computer crashes when streaming Team Fortress 2

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Farker

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New computer. Played TF2 for 15 minutes, computer crashed and on boot it said something like
PC shutdown because of power supply surge detected. I fixed the problem by playing TF2 at the worst resolution. No more crashes.

Then I wanted to start streaming TF2 and I had to change the resolution back to 1920x1080 in order to stream and of course I got the same crashes. I disabled Asus anti surge in BIOS and the PSU surge crashes are gone but the computer still crashes when streaming TF2. And the crashes looks like this: http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=nef808>&s=8#.UxyGcvmS...

I have tried both the latest beta Cataclyst drivers and the 13.12 drivers, which I currently run.
I have also tried two different Corsair PSUs listed in the specs.
I have ran stress test on the CPU, GPU and RAM. Temps was fine and no crashes.

i7 4770K
Z87-K
8GB 1333 MHz
120 GB SSD
500 GB HDD
Asus R9 280X
Corsair VS 550 / Corsair VS 650

Here are some stats the seconds before the computer crashes (Is 11.2V min voltage on the safe side or is that a too high voltage drop?): http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=2gwrp7t>&s=8#.Ux40k_mSyHC
 
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You shouldn't be any lower than say 11.4 to be within tolerance. The vs550 is corsairs low end unit. I would try a different unit such as a cx600. Will give you more headroom anyway.
 
johnb35 said:
You shouldn't be any lower than say 11.4 to be within tolerance. The vs550 is corsairs low end unit. I would try a different unit such as a cx600. Will give you more headroom anyway.
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Ok, sometimes I do also hear coil noise from the PSU or the GPU, can't say exactly from where it's coming from tho.
 
johnb35 said:
You shouldn't be any lower than say 11.4 to be within tolerance. The vs550 is corsairs low end unit. I would try a different unit such as a cx600. Will give you more headroom anyway.
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Oh shit, I now realized I have made a typo with the PSUs. I have tried Corsair VS 550 and Corsair VS 650.
 
Coil whine comes from the power supply. The VS series is still low end. Maybe just a bad batch.
 
johnb35 said:
Coil whine comes from the power supply. The VS series is still low end. Maybe just a bad batch.
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The thing is that I actually think the coil noise is coming from the GPU. I can't say I'm sure tho. I don't think the PSUs are an issue here because when I am gaming and streaming, the total power draw of the computer + two monitors is 350W.

Sometimes this happens when I open an mp4 file or watching a clip on Youtube: http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=2qs032f&s=8#.Ux8k7_mSyHA
 
johnb35 said:
Remove the video card and use the onboard video from the cpu and see what happens.
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Well the onboard video will probably not handle Team Fortress 2 first of all and secondly, the crash that occurs when opening Youtube clips or mp4 files is hard to reproduce since it's happen pretty seldom.
 
Farker said:
Well the onboard video will probably not handle Team Fortress 2 first of all and secondly, the crash that occurs when opening Youtube clips or mp4 files is hard to reproduce since it's happen pretty seldom.
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The onboard video can max out team fortress 2.
 
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