i get a black screen whenever i try to run a game and i have to restart my computer

kintorin

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i updated my drivers and it still does it.
Ive looked online and cant find it i have an AMD radeon 7870 and windows 8 64 bit
 
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it is either that or psu or both, that psu is is a cheap build is there another pc you can either put your gpu in to see if it runs or get another psu to try and test in your system? most likely it is a failling psu

kintorin

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no im not playing on steam. for example if i try to load world of warcraft it does this. but it was also doing it through games on origin like mass effect. and it just randomly started doing this ive been playing these games for awhile then a few days ago it ranodmly did this. and i have a 600 watt PSU
 

kintorin

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okay so it definitely happened again. there was also a green strip in the middle of the screen for a split second before it went black. its almost like my card is crashing or something
 

Bad_Kitty13

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it is either that or psu or both, that psu is is a cheap build is there another pc you can either put your gpu in to see if it runs or get another psu to try and test in your system? most likely it is a failling psu
 
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inridcold

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I have the same problem with my 7870 ghz edition the solution i found was trying my card in another computer lucky i have another one at hand switch to the pc without problems and ran furmark for three hours without a problem the first pc have a corsair 650 w tx i bought it when traveling to the states in 2008 since then i use it for all my needs like 2 hours a day between work and heavy gaming since last week its doing the black screen with any game and furmark forget about it like 1 minute and hang with artifacts and then black screen with the need to restart tried all drivers with no good then i did like i said tried in my second pc with the same psu corsair tx650 w but of ocurre newegg like 6 Months of use and furmark ran straight for three hours you should check the psu im going to get a replacement Peace!