Power usage is "Very High" & PC is very hot

[Andytechhelp]

That is a budget PSU from 2014 that should not be used when there is an add on GPU present, it only made it onto Tier D • Recommended only for very cheap, iGPU systems

How old is the PSU that you have, regdrless the more that you use it the weaker and hotter it will get and at some point it will pop.

It’s about a year and a half old

[phillpower2]

And !

[Andytechhelp]

And !

And what? There is no other question for me to answer

[Malnutrition]

Post#1 task manager shows Avast
Speccy does not show Avast
Hmmm

Yep, there were no residual traces of Avast in the ZHP diag logs, which is extremely odd.

@Andytechhelp what software did you use to uninstall Avast? Even using the removal tool, it will leave traces in the registry. Curious…

[Andytechhelp]

Yep, there were no residual traces of Avast in the ZHP diag logs, which is extremely odd.

@Andytechhelp what software did you use to uninstall Avast? Even using the removal tool, it will leave traces in the registry. Curious…

I made the Imgur before removing so it should all be gone, when I did the speccy I had already removed Avast. I removed it using the control panel → Uninstall a program.

Also about the other post the last thing only took me 20 minutes, dunno why it was so fast if it was supposed to be a few hours.

[Malnutrition]

All good, follow up with @phillpower2 he is very good with hardware issues, try and answer his questions best you can.

[phillpower2]

And what? There is no other question for me to answer

If it were my computer and it was brought to my attention that the PSU that I had was not of the quality required I would have asked straight away what PSU do I need, not just me saying that the PSU is not good but also the independent testers who only rated it as being good enough to support integrated graphics, in addition to this, you are not getting the benefit of the RAM that you have and for two reasons, overclocking the RAM to the ideal speed of 3200MHz will just add more stress to the PSU and if you had purchased the correct 3200MHz RAM you could have just enabled XMP and had the RAM be auto OCd, you can`t do the latter with the RAM that you have as the CPU will not be able to handle it and the system will fail.

[Andytechhelp]

If it were my computer and it was brought to my attention that the PSU that I had was not of the quality required I would have asked straight away what PSU do I need, not just me saying that the PSU is not good but also the independent testers who only rated it as being good enough to support integrated graphics, in addition to this, you are not getting the benefit of the RAM that you have and for two reasons, overclocking the RAM to the ideal speed of 3200MHz will just add more stress to the PSU and if you had purchased the correct 3200MHz RAM you could have just enabled XMP and had the RAM be auto OCd, you can`t do the latter with the RAM that you have as the CPU will not be able to handle it and the system will fail.

I mean my bad I guess, first time posting here IDK the etiquette, or that I have to assume a question is being asked (or that I have to ask one). I didn’t know if the PSU was for sure the issue, nor do I even still, so asking for a PSU recommendation to spend like $100-200 (or more) for potentially no reason wasn’t my first thought. But I guess nothing else has worked so that probably is the issue, I don’t see what else could be at this point. Not really great with computers so I’m not sure what the last part of your message even means TBH, but what PSU would you recommend to help fix this issue?

[phillpower2]

Before making any purchase it is always advisable to do one of two things, see if you are able to borrow an appropriate PSU to swap in for testing or get the PC tested by a local tech/tech store.

Using a weak PSU damages the hardware and the GPU being the most power hungry component tends to suffer first and the most, hence the reason why the above two are recommended to be done first, because it is only for testing a good quality 500W Bronze PSU from the likes of EVGA or Seasonic will do but not a Corsair who do recommend that their Bronze efficiency rated PSUs be used for entry level desktops that only have onboard video.

Until the testing has been done and the PSU upgraded the latter part of my reply #22 can wait as you cannot correct the issue until there is an appropriate PSU in place, this is impacting the CPU because Ryzen CPUs are notorious for not liking slow RAM which you are stuck with atm.

Can I ask that you do not quote every reply as we have to read the full post to make sure nothing gets missed, thanks.

[phillpower2]

Being that the OP has revisited the forum but chose not to reply this thread will be marked and closed.