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Ok I should have posted before =/.
Anyways, HWMon will only show accurate readings of your PSU voltage IF the board has good sensors in the right places. 90% of the time this isn't the case. If your PSU is faulty then the problem will be non-CPU vdroop or a voltage drop under load. This can be random if something internally in the PSU is going bad so it could very well be load causing the shut down. As was said several times something of this nature can only be caused by a few things. The #1 thing is usually heat related, and that 80c load temp could do it. The next thing would be PSU sending some negative juju to the PC and a shortage protect is tripping.
The easiest way to see if your voltages are getting too low is to load both the CPU and GPU at the same time using Prime95 and MSI Kombustor respectively. Then measure your 12v. You can sometimes use HWMon for this because if it's real bad it'll be low. Doing the above puts a real load on your PSU to effectively see if voltages are dropping dangerously low which is a norm for CM PSUs.
Anyways, HWMon will only show accurate readings of your PSU voltage IF the board has good sensors in the right places. 90% of the time this isn't the case. If your PSU is faulty then the problem will be non-CPU vdroop or a voltage drop under load. This can be random if something internally in the PSU is going bad so it could very well be load causing the shut down. As was said several times something of this nature can only be caused by a few things. The #1 thing is usually heat related, and that 80c load temp could do it. The next thing would be PSU sending some negative juju to the PC and a shortage protect is tripping.
The easiest way to see if your voltages are getting too low is to load both the CPU and GPU at the same time using Prime95 and MSI Kombustor respectively. Then measure your 12v. You can sometimes use HWMon for this because if it's real bad it'll be low. Doing the above puts a real load on your PSU to effectively see if voltages are dropping dangerously low which is a norm for CM PSUs.