- Aug 15, 2013
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Recently I was having trouble with my computer shutting down for seemingly no reason. I eventually narrowed it down to a overheating graphics card i think the system was getting up 100 degrees and then would shut down. SO i got a GTX 660 TI and installed that and the temperatures all stayed normal and everything seemed great. Then i tried playing Tomb Raider (which came with the new card) and it just restarted the computer. Now it will restart at seemingly random times while I doing seemingly graphically intense operations (Multiple tabs open in firefox, working in maya, zbrush or photoshop.)
I'm fairly novice at all this computer stuff, so I was wondering if you guys could please help me. Should I just try and get a new card. (i don't do anything fancy with it like overclocking or any of that. I don't even play games really, but I do a lot of intense graphic arts stuff). I read it could be a PSU problem but 800w seems like it should be enough. but i'm not sure. And I'm weary of updating the BIOS. Or is there something I can do or look into to fix the problem. Any help you guys could provide would be greatly appreciated. thank you very much!
Computer Specs-
asus P6T X58 SLI
12gb of RAM
Apevia 800watt PSU
Intel i7-920 2.66ghz 8m
Windows 7
I'm fairly novice at all this computer stuff, so I was wondering if you guys could please help me. Should I just try and get a new card. (i don't do anything fancy with it like overclocking or any of that. I don't even play games really, but I do a lot of intense graphic arts stuff). I read it could be a PSU problem but 800w seems like it should be enough. but i'm not sure. And I'm weary of updating the BIOS. Or is there something I can do or look into to fix the problem. Any help you guys could provide would be greatly appreciated. thank you very much!
Computer Specs-
asus P6T X58 SLI
12gb of RAM
Apevia 800watt PSU
Intel i7-920 2.66ghz 8m
Windows 7
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