Long ongoing Asus Anti-Surge issue

Jacks 1989

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Hey guys, I ran out of ideas and decided to ask for some assistance.

I had my 5 year old computer motherboard and cpu fried few months back so I decided it was a good opportunity for me to upgrade my computer.

I purchased a Asus Maximus Ranger motherboard, i5 4560k, new hard drive and Corsair HX650 power supply and was running an old GPU.

Every time a ran a game (any game) it would shut down my computer and trigger the anti-surge, I thought it was my graphics card so I removed it completely and everything worked perfectly, even played my games using the internal graphics card built in the mother board which worked fine.

Recently, purchased a brand new graphics card (Sapphire R9 850) and I am getting anti-surges again. Can someone point me the right direction as to why I keep getting this?

When I turn off Anti-Surge, my computer will shut down completely.
 
Solution
If you have 6 other power sources from the socket, it could be that when you start using a more power hungry GPU, it is overloading the socket, rather than the PSU. Try with only the pc and the monitor getting power from the socket.

Jacks 1989

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Not so far, I did upgrade it to the Corsair HX650 from some standard generic one though I have a feeling HX650 is still not enough? Will that affect it if I have about 6 other power sources running from the same socket? It will only power surge when the graphics card is in
 
If you have 6 other power sources from the socket, it could be that when you start using a more power hungry GPU, it is overloading the socket, rather than the PSU. Try with only the pc and the monitor getting power from the socket.
 
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