pc randomly rebooting please help

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I recently replaced my fx 4300 with a fx 8350 ran a little hot but stable added 2 fans and now it reboots after an hour of playing world of warcraft
Temp seems ok cpu is at 25-30c mb is at 35-45ish hdd is at 15c flat
My spec are
asus m5a9 LE 2.0
8 gb. Of corsair ram
Xfx 5650
Lsp 650w psu
Rosewill n900 wifi card
350 gb hdd
2 disk drives and 5 fans 4 120mm and 1 140mm
Could my psu be overloaded or dying?
 
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I see two potential problems. First, use a program like HWMonitor and see if it reports your VRM temperatures. The "LE" version of your motherboard doesn't have heatsinks on its VRMs and may have trouble with your higher-current CPU.
The second problem is your Ultra "LSP" PSU is very poorly rated, and could easily be the cause of your issue, since you installed the higher-TDP CPU. Considering the modest power requirements of the HD5650 graphics card though, this should be unlikely, although it would speak to the quality of the Ultra PSU if that is the problem.
Allowing for a modest graphics card upgrade, a 380W Antec Earthwatts would handle your current rig plus something like a GTX750[Ti] (even one of the versions that needs...
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Also a buddy of mine used the same cpu and motherboard in his build with 2 120mm fans but no overheating or random reboots for him x.x Idk if his psu was higher then mine though
 
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I see two potential problems. First, use a program like HWMonitor and see if it reports your VRM temperatures. The "LE" version of your motherboard doesn't have heatsinks on its VRMs and may have trouble with your higher-current CPU.
The second problem is your Ultra "LSP" PSU is very poorly rated, and could easily be the cause of your issue, since you installed the higher-TDP CPU. Considering the modest power requirements of the HD5650 graphics card though, this should be unlikely, although it would speak to the quality of the Ultra PSU if that is the problem.
Allowing for a modest graphics card upgrade, a 380W Antec Earthwatts would handle your current rig plus something like a GTX750[Ti] (even one of the versions that needs auxiliary power).
 
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Thanks very helpful do you recommend replacing the psu verses putting vrm heatsinks on the mother board because I too had speculated that the vrm could be over heating as well maybe I should replace the psu first and see what happens it had come with a bare bones kit and I have had my eye on it since I put it in because over all quality of the psu was poor but it held up for 2
years I won't lie this was my first build but I have researched my head off since I built it but still don't know eeeeverything and I'm open to advice you know what I meanxD
 
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