So it's fairly simple. I bought a new set about a year ago and right off the bat it was acting funny. It's not a very weak set, so the idea of being able to play the games i want without a problem should sound like a no-brainer.
I have an Intel I5-3470 at 3.2 GHz Processor, 8 GB RAM, an AMD 7800 HD series graphics card, built on a MSI B75MA motherboard. It's supplied by a 550watt PSU.
The problem is, that whenever I play games; no matter what game it is. It can be anything from heroes of newerth to world of warcraft (both of which I could run on my old piece of brick rig without a problem) to something like gta 4 or crysis 2 -- the set just crashes. At first I thought it was a random error or something, faulty game or a bad monitor. So I replaced my monitor, and still the same. It's been going on for a while now so I've started doing stress tests. I ran Prime95 and Furmark to have them nail down on the computer, all it really did was make it more noisy but it didn't crash. It only happens during games. I can watch movies and do 83 other things while I'm at it but god forbid if I want to play a game or two. It's not set in stone either. It can happen 3 minutes after I run a game, or it can not happen during a day at all, it's completely random. I'm putting my money on either a faulty PSU or a software error, is there any way I can diagnose the cause of this and what should be my next steps?
I have an Intel I5-3470 at 3.2 GHz Processor, 8 GB RAM, an AMD 7800 HD series graphics card, built on a MSI B75MA motherboard. It's supplied by a 550watt PSU.
The problem is, that whenever I play games; no matter what game it is. It can be anything from heroes of newerth to world of warcraft (both of which I could run on my old piece of brick rig without a problem) to something like gta 4 or crysis 2 -- the set just crashes. At first I thought it was a random error or something, faulty game or a bad monitor. So I replaced my monitor, and still the same. It's been going on for a while now so I've started doing stress tests. I ran Prime95 and Furmark to have them nail down on the computer, all it really did was make it more noisy but it didn't crash. It only happens during games. I can watch movies and do 83 other things while I'm at it but god forbid if I want to play a game or two. It's not set in stone either. It can happen 3 minutes after I run a game, or it can not happen during a day at all, it's completely random. I'm putting my money on either a faulty PSU or a software error, is there any way I can diagnose the cause of this and what should be my next steps?
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