Built 1st PC, works well but crashes to blue screen while playing Games recently

Jimmyduxfan

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I put together 1st pc couple months ago and having an issue. Last couple weeks while gaming my pc has froze/crashed to a blue screen, sometimes theres a windows message like pc had fatal error restarting, sometimes just blue, then restarts either way. I've updated all my drivers and still does it, but less. Seems like it happens while playing during graphic heavy moments. I did cheap out on my psu, could that be the problem? Amd a10 7850k, 8gb corsair 1866 mem (sharing 2gb w on board gpu), Asrock Killer series a88x mobo, kingston ssd, wd hd, cheapie $19 500w psu. Running Windows 10. It does seem to do it more when skyping at same time w teammates, another reason I'm thinking spikes in power consumption needs aren't being met by psu. Was mildly overclocking but stopped that and does it still, but again alil less.
 
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Your PSU is most likely the issue.

Second option is Windows 10. It is not a final version so most likely they are still some bugs.

But if I call chances - 90% certain that it is your PSU.

mrmike_49

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Are you monitoring your cpu temperature? Install MSI afterburner or similar and set it up to monitor cpu temp, and maybe FPSm DURING the game. 500Watts should be enough for your system, but a $19 PSU is really cheap and automatically suspect