Sudden reboot when playing BF4 on new computer

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My new computer suddenly reboots without any warning. It usually happens while playing games (BF4, CoH2).

I suspect that it has something to do with my GPU, R9 Radeon 290X. After installing the newest driver for the card and rebooting, the computer screen stopped receiving signal from the HDMI-cable immediately after the "starting windows"-graphics. The computer seemed to continue the booting process, but the screen displayed a "NO SIGNAL"-message. I managed to delete the new driver by booting in safe-mode, and changed to version 13.12. This fixed the "NO SIGNAL"-problem.

But now the computer randomly reboots while I'm playing games... Any ideas?

Components:
Gigabyte GA-Z97MX-GAMING 5, Socket-1150
Crucial DDR3 BallistiX Tactical 16GB
Intel Core i7-4790k with Intel TS13X Liquid Cooling Solution
XFX Radeon R9 290 4GB BLACK "Double Dissipation Edition"
Samsung SSD 840 EVO 250GB
Corsair CX 600M, 600W PSU

Thanks in advance for any answers.
 
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If I recall correctly, this is an issue with your PSU (something with not being able to provide the constant power?).

If this is the case, then the recommendation is to buy a new PSU with higher wattage rating from a better manufacturer.
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If I recall correctly, this is an issue with your PSU (something with not being able to provide the constant power?).

If this is the case, then the recommendation is to buy a new PSU with higher wattage rating from a better manufacturer.
 
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Thanks for the reply!

If I understand you correctly, this means that as the GPU works harder and consumes more power, the PPU fails to deliver the requested power and kills the system. The strange thing is that the computer rebooted last night just as I was posting this question. The power consumption of the GPU was presumably fairly low at this point.

Maybe there is some kind of software I could use to monitor and/or log the power delivered from the PPU and determine if the reboots occur at some specific power value?

 
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