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justplayindead2

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Hello everyone,
Please help me,
I've never had any problems with my pc while gaming until now.
When i'm playing a game, doesnt matter what game, my pc randomly shuts down without a warning of overheating or such thing, it turns of equal to pulling the cable out, so just sudden black screen.
I think my rig is not overheating, because it also happens when I open up my pc.

My specs:

GPU: ASUS GTX570 Direct CU II
CPU: AMD FX6300 with Antec 620 Kühler watercooling
Mobo: ASRock 890FX deluxe 4
RAM: 4 * 2GB ddr3 1333 Dane Elec
PSU: MS-tech N650VAL 650Watt
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 1tb
Zalman z11 plus casing with 6fans, 2 intake, 4 outtake

 
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rolli59
When gaming the PSU has to deliver more power to the GPU possibly pushing it over the limit. 650 watt is plenty for your specs but quality (or lack off in your case) could be the issue.
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justplayindead2

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I also thought about that, but can you pls help me explain why it only happens when i´m gaming.
also, do you think my PSU is big enough for my specs? because I was thinking about my PSU delivering to low power
 
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justplayindead2

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Thanks I´ll try buying a better PSU, but I was also thinking about upgrading my GPU, upgrading to a MSI r9 270X.
Could this help my PSU problem solve because the wattage is lower?
Btw, thanks for your fast answers.
 
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Fershya

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I got the exact same problem with my computer, the problem started to occur about five days ago and I have no idea how to fix it...
And i checked my temperatures and the cpu went to maximum 60c and the gpu went highest to around 80 when playing AC4 then shortly there after the computer died...

My specs:

GPU: Gtx 680
CPU: CPU Core i5 3570K 3,4Ghz - stock cooler
Mobo: MK ASRock Z68 EXTREME3 GEN 3 S.1155, Z68, ATX
RAM: Corsair 16GB (4-KIT) DDR3 VENGEANCE 1,5V LOW
PSU: Fractal Design 650W Tesla/650W/80+
HDD: A-DATA SSD Premier Pro SP900 128GB and a HD1TB Seagate SATA 6Gb/s 64MB
Chassis: NZXT Phantom
 
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I would go better PSU anyway since it is loosing power if it worked before fine.
If the system is shutting down and rebooting itself it can as well be BSOD created by driver if the BIOS is set to reboot on failure. Changing the BIOS setting will bring up the BSOD screen.
 
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justplayindead2

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That´s the problem, I dont know if you meant it, but the system doesn´t reboot, it just turns off and cannot restart until you turn off the PSU.
when the pc fails, the onbutton on my case lights up but pressing it wont help.
 
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I just wanted to throw in my experience with PSUs as well:

When I first built my custom gaming rig a couple years ago, I went with a cheap Kingwin 650W PSU, which should have been more than enough for my needs:
GPU: Nvidia 560ti
RAM: 8 gb Crucial
CPU: Intel i5-2500k
Motherboard: MSI P67A-G43 1155 ATX
HDD: Seagate 1TB

But whenever I started playing games with large graphic loads like StarCraft II the whole rig would shutdown with no warning and no explanation. After some research I chalked it up to the PSU and replaced the Kingwin with a 760W PC Power and Cooling PSU. After replacing the PSU I've never had a single problem.

I don't know if it was the brand or the power rating that was causing failures, but I've had friends utilizing 500W PSUs before using similar setups and they've never had problems so I'm thinking it's more brand/quality problems rather than not having enough power.
 
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PSU issue by turning it off you are resetting it!!
 
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justplayindead2

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Thanks for the answer, but that's the same as my GPU's. But ill search it out so many thanks.

 
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this is a ms corp. booby trap. I used to have the same problem. I turned my wifi adapter off and no more shutdown
regardless of power/gpu demand. with wifi off game explorer will not let you start games, so modify your registry.
open regedit, click on computer, hit ctrl+f, type servicelocation, just like I typed it. double click on games. enter
any valid local path. export that part of the registry to save it for when windows changes the update target back
to the original web address.
 
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Is tis the post that solved the issue ?
My pc goes into sleep mode (or something) randomly and a click of mouse and the game is running again (still) no reboot needed .
 
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