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PC Crashing shortly after launching a game

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October 7, 2013 7:12:50 AM

Recently replaced a blown PSU and now when gaming (any decent 3d game) sends the pc into suspend/crashes the PC after a few mins (4-10). Temperatures appear to be ok, apart from the PSU which feels quite hot (hotter than it is when just browsing).

I Suspect it may be the PSU as it's fairly cheap but is still better than previous PSU that blew, but still worked for months playing games.

I just wanted some feedback/ideas before I have to spend yet more money on another PSU trying to put this right :( 


System specs:
AMD FX-8350
1GB MSI HD7850 R7850-1GD5/OC (this came overclocked out the box)
GByte GA-990XA-UD3 Mother Board
8GB 4x2GB cossair memory
750W Artic blue+ PSU

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October 7, 2013 11:27:45 AM

Seems to stop the crashing when i increase the GPU Fans. Is this indicative of PSU problems or a damaged card?
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October 7, 2013 11:40:47 AM

How old is your GPU? And as for the PSU, if it's cheap as you say, it very well may be the problem. A PSU is something you NEVER want to cheap out on.
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October 8, 2013 12:54:36 AM

The whole system is about 10-11 months old and running Win 7 64 bit.

I've had power/crashing issues before during this time,and blown 2-3 cheap PSU's but now, with a slightly better (but still no brand) PSU all that's happening is the game is crashing out about 5 minutes in unless I crank up the GPU fans to about 80-90% which I would have thought indicates heat rather than power issues.
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October 8, 2013 1:25:40 AM

neogamer12345 said:
How old is your GPU? And as for the PSU, if it's cheap as you say, it very well may be the problem. A PSU is something you NEVER want to cheap out on.


+1 to this, under no circumstances should you be cheaping out on the psu.
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October 8, 2013 1:54:51 AM

Hindsight is wonderful. That aside I'm fairly certain it's a power issue but Im a bit confused by the fact that the GPU fan being cranked up delays the crash significantly, which would suggest heat is an issue with the card???
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October 8, 2013 9:17:12 AM

I'd say open up MSI Afterburner or another good temp monitoring program and launch a game and try to get the results before it crashes. First step to solve a heating problem: Get the temps.
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