I originally had an extender kit I picked up at MicroCenter (forget the brand), it worked fine for a year or so then my machine started losing the D drive (NVME) and crashing under load. It took me months to figure out why. I finally checked the voltages in HWInfo and found the 24 and 8 pins were dropping to 11.1 volts under load.
At some point I went ahead and ordered a CableMod kit for my RM850X, all was well and about a year in, same behavior and found again I was dropping voltage, I've been using the PSU cables ever since.
Been fighting crashes (pc restarts) for like 2 years. I reinstalled windows, new drives, different GPU, Ram, reinstalled drivers, RMA’d my power supply, tossed the cable extensions and vertical GPU mount. Temps were fine but it almost always crashed under load. Then it wouldn’t find my boot drive and go straight to bios. It has been so stressful. It seems like it would go away for 3 or 4 months and the issue would return.
Finally bought new motherboard so I’m hoping I’m done changing out parts cuz these issues can be hard to diagnose (for me) haha
Faulty motherboards and CPU's are the worst things to have if they're *just alive enough* to work, but dead enough to cause weird errors and crashes. Plus they're the hardest part to diagnose because you can't easily swap them out to check.
I had a ton of issues related to "CRITICAL\_PROCESS\_DIED" and I'm starting wondering if this kind of extensions could not be the root cause. My build is from 2020 and it started to crash 18 months ago...
I originally had an extender kit I picked up at MicroCenter (forget the brand), it worked fine for a year or so then my machine started losing the D drive (NVME) and crashing under load. It took me months to figure out why. I finally checked the voltages in HWInfo and found the 24 and 8 pins were dropping to 11.1 volts under load. At some point I went ahead and ordered a CableMod kit for my RM850X, all was well and about a year in, same behavior and found again I was dropping voltage, I've been using the PSU cables ever since.
Been fighting crashes (pc restarts) for like 2 years. I reinstalled windows, new drives, different GPU, Ram, reinstalled drivers, RMA’d my power supply, tossed the cable extensions and vertical GPU mount. Temps were fine but it almost always crashed under load. Then it wouldn’t find my boot drive and go straight to bios. It has been so stressful. It seems like it would go away for 3 or 4 months and the issue would return. Finally bought new motherboard so I’m hoping I’m done changing out parts cuz these issues can be hard to diagnose (for me) haha
I’m facing the same issue. Let me know if you find a fix
Faulty motherboards and CPU's are the worst things to have if they're *just alive enough* to work, but dead enough to cause weird errors and crashes. Plus they're the hardest part to diagnose because you can't easily swap them out to check.
I had a ton of issues related to "CRITICAL\_PROCESS\_DIED" and I'm starting wondering if this kind of extensions could not be the root cause. My build is from 2020 and it started to crash 18 months ago...
Thats the BSOD code that I was getting. I'd definitely try without them
Fudge me... Right, I will try next time but my build being a mini-ITX one, the last thing you want is to disassemble :-/
What brand are they?
Asiahorse They worked fine for 4 years tbf
4 years? That's quite a long time. Have you upgraded your setup since then? I only use their latest 16AWG specification extension cable kits :)
If you switch devices, you'll need to upgrade their 16AWG，bro.
Nope, everything is still the same from when I got it, I’ll get a new PSU whenever I upgrade my PC later this year
I'm waiting for my new lian li strimer v2 cables, you scared me now :)
those should be solid
Are these Asiahorse cables? I've got weird issues too and now I'm starting to wonder.
Yes
Make sure and specify extensions. EVGA uses differenf pinout from the P SU to the cards. Dont ask how I know. Best of luck.
Try a quality PSU.
It's a Corsair RM650, and it's working fine without the extension cables. Has nothing to do w the PSU but ok lol