Computer shutting off when playing Saints Row 3 and L4D2

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FrodoSwaggins

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Hi,
I got this weird issue that when I am playing either L4D2 or SR3 my pc shuts down with no warning, as if somebody yanked the plug.
I have played several hours of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Metal Gear Rising, Team Fortress 2, Fallout New Vegas, Metro 2033, Mirror's Edge, and Torchlight II. These games played just fine, no problems during gameplay or random crashes.

I honestly don't know what the cause for this issue could be, since MGR doesn't crash even when I slice something up up to 800 pieces (my fps go to the single units, but still pushes through).
Any Ideas? Here's my rig:
-AMD FX-8320
-HyperX RAM (8gigs)
-ASUS M5A97 R2.0 Motherboard
-XFX R9 280X Double Dissipation
-WD Blue 1TB, Crucial MX100 256gb
-EVGA 600B PSU

I really don't know what to do. I don't think the PSU is malfunctioning since I can play all the other games just fine. Maybe SR3 and L4D2 draw up more wattage from the CPU/GPU?
 
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Scar89

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Strange that only those to games are doing it, usually points to a hardware error like a power supply overload, but you have metro 2033 in that list and that should be loading up your pc more than any of those games lol.

You could try running OCCT and loading up your pc for a while and see how it copes: http://www.ocbase.com/
You could run memtest and check to see if a faulty memory block is being used by those games and crashing your system: http://www.memtest.org/

I've also had system crashed related to video drivers, although there is usually a blue screen, try different drivers if you can. Or maybe check in your Catalyst control center and see if there's any settings its applying that are specific to those games. I believe AMD has Catalyst AI which can change how some games run, turn it off if you can and try that too.

Well thats all I can think of for now, goodluck :)
 
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FrodoSwaggins

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A guy in a different thread suggested that it could be the PSU overheating. I will play the game and touch the PSU when the PC shuts down to see if this is the problem.
 
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FrodoSwaggins

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I've run several stress tests using furmark, occt, and prime95. My PC never shut down while the tests were done. And yeah, it is pretty strange since it never happened with games like Metro 2033 or Metal Gear Rising. I can feel my PC heating up while playing those games, but they play just fine.
 
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