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Hi all, I bought a custom pc (wich had a Haf 922 case,a core i5 gigabyte mother board, i5 CPU, nvidia gtx 550 TI overclocked GPU, a western digital 500 GB harddrive, Adata 4 GB memory and a 460 watt power supply) wich I used for 2 and a half years till a coffee spill(while pc was running ). I then took it in to the place I baught it from and told them what happened and to check it out and clean the spill if possible witch they did and the feed back was that my graphics card(gtx 550 TI Over clocked) had fried and all other parts were fine and worked correctly so I replaced it with my current card (GTX 660 TI over clocked) and my pc worked for a almost a year but then it started crashing in games in the game menu and while playing. it usually did that between 2 to 5 minutes of playing. so i reinstalled my windows 7 x64 and installed motherboard and all other components. I then proceeded to install my games witch included war thunder,battlefield 3,world of tanks,mass effect 3 and starcraft 2 and tried playing them all and 90% of them crashed as so i tried to reinstall windows after formating my hard drive but it didnt pick up my drive during the installation (Boot sector corrupted I think) so I took it in to the shop where I baught and took it before and the feed back was that the hard drive was busted so i replaced it (today) with a brand new WD 1TB hard drive and put it in and proceeded to intsall windows (with a 400GB partition for windows and 600GB for my files) and components witch went fine and then decided to install my first game war thunder and play it but the crashes were back and the only thing i can do is "press the windows button and sometimes it jumps into windos and I can close the game before my freezes completely" or "the power button if it crashes completely" I am out of fixes and at my wits end so please help if u can.
Ps: sorry for the spelling errors and the whole story but i want to give others and idea of the situation.
 
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Yes, it may unable to power the load, and ripple/noise and/or voltage are wandering far enough out of spec to cause crashes. It is possible to damage attached parts under these conditions, so I'd wait to play any more until you've replaced the PSU.
It is still possible, but hopefully unlikely, that other parts have been damaged, either by the spill or by out-of-spec ripple or voltage. When you get the new PSU, use memtest86+ to check your RAM, especially if you still get crashes (hopefully you won't).
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When I see "460W" on the PSU, I'm thinking it's a CM "Extreme" or "Elite" model. These are very low quality (a notch above Apevia, Logisys, etc) and are overrated. Good for no more than 430W, possibly less, it is generally insufficient for your build.
On a budget, an Antec VP-450 would be good. For a little more, a 500W Earthwatts, or a 450W-550W Rosewill Capstone would also be decent choices.
 
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you may have two errors. the coffee spill was one and it may have been fixed or it damaged more then one part and took the part some time to fail.
have you tried running memtest on your system to see if there a bad spot on your ram stick. with games when pc hangs it the gpu over heating or bad voltage to the gpu. Did you tell the shop that you replaced the video card and were having lock up and crashes?? if you did i would have used a test power supply to see if the old unit was holding or rippling out.
 
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HUH... so not getting enough juice or bad power coming in. thank u onus will replace my psu wit a better one asap

 
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Yes, it may unable to power the load, and ripple/noise and/or voltage are wandering far enough out of spec to cause crashes. It is possible to damage attached parts under these conditions, so I'd wait to play any more until you've replaced the PSU.
It is still possible, but hopefully unlikely, that other parts have been damaged, either by the spill or by out-of-spec ripple or voltage. When you get the new PSU, use memtest86+ to check your RAM, especially if you still get crashes (hopefully you won't).
 
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