Can Bad PSU really cause game crashes???

aikor

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So for the past 2 plus months my PC have been crashing into a random colored screen with stripes everytime i play a game

The time of the crash can vary a lot

Sometimes the game can crash after 5mins,or maximum after 15mins

The crash color is grey screen with stripes,or dark green screen with stripes or some other color

Oh and sometimes when i play Project CARS and when the screen turns into these striped screen i can HEAR THE GAME SOUNDS,the slowing down of the car and the car crashing the wall even

But usually the whole game crashes too

(i tried everything possible from resetting BIOS,cleaning the card,reapplying paste,uninstalling and reinstalling new drivers,deattaching all cables and attaching them back and nothing worked)

Sometimes(very rarely)like once or twice a month,sometimes the pc crashes into these colored screen when i was just browsing facebook which led me and some others to believe its the PSU

I really doubt its my graphics card because this is a new MSI R9 280X which is barely 6 months old and i never over clocked it either

Do u think the PSU can really cause these crashes??

My PSU is a Coolermaster G600

I made several threads and all of them said thats a very bad PSU

What do u guys think?

My PC specs:

AMD FX 8300
8GB RAM
AMD MSI R9 280X 3GB
Win 8 64bit
Coolermaster G600W PSU(its around 1+ years old now)
 

maxalge

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those things are cause by a bad power supply or overheating of the cpu or gpu, also you could have gpu mining malware

it can also be cause by too old mobo BIOS


use a program like amd overdrive to monitor cpu thermal overhead on your cpu

msi afterburner is a good program as well, and it can monitor gpu temps and cpu as well in games when you enable it in the OSD



play a game, post back with your max temps
 

aikor

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Yes i did

Temperature monitoring is my highest priority

Infact thats what i first even checked,it seems all temperatures are normal even CPU temp

I use MSI After burner

When i play a game the max temp is around 60-75 degrees C and in between them the game crashes
 

budgetbuilds760

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75 is an alright temp... its healthy just keep it under 80
its your psu. it cant put out enough power to support your processor when its under load (gaming for ex)
if you choose a bad PSU over the years the power output will start to decrease to a point where it cant support the needs of ur pc causing it to shut down unexpectedly or causing it to crash, which is what is what u are experiencing now.
I suggest you get a replacement soon before the crashes become more frequent or before the capacitors explode(lol)