Do power supplies use more electricity to run a game on higher graphics?

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smorizio

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when you game your stressing out all the parts in the pc. your using max volatges and temps will get hot. on shutdown issues use msi afterburner and check your cpu and gpu temps. make sure the cpu not goting over 60c when gaming. a newer gpu with msi afterburner should sit in 50c range when gaming. if the pc still shuts down it time to replace the power supply for a better unit.
 
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fredfinks

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Most probably is. And yes, they chew more power as there's more work to be done.

Crap PSUs are not recommended. Have a look thoguh the PSU tier list stickied at top of forum. The best priced tier 1s at the moment are EVGA G2's. A 650w is fine for single GPU systems.
 
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photonboy

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1) Is this a system that worked fine before?

2) What do you have for :
a) PSU
b) CPU
c) Graphics card

3) To be clear, are the graphics card power connections attached?

4) If you have an iGPU, and hookup monitor to the motherboard (graphics card NOT attached) is everything working? (if so that means it's either the power supply or graphics card that is the problem)
 
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HeroponLuigi

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Here's a post from earlier than explains my whole situation. Yea this was a working system until I replaced my HDD for an SSD
I just installed a Crucial BX100 500GB SSD. I originally had an old HDD and I was able to play games on it. I cloned my HDD into this SSD, ran the free upgrade, and then did windows reset for a "clean" install.The strange thing is that it only shuts off like 5 to 10 minutes into a game. I actually used it for like 6 hours straight yesterday and even used Blender 3D for the majority of that time without any problems. I opened up steam after I was done with Blender, ran the Hunter which is a pretty old game, and 10 minutes in it just shut off. If I reconnect the HDD I can play games just fine, so the SSD is definitely the issue. The Only differences between the two is that one is an HDD while the other is an SSD, and that the HDD is running Win7 while the SSD is running Win10. I'm thinking maybe the power supply, but from my understanding SSD's need less power than HDD's

OS -Microsoft Windows 10 (free upgrade from 7)

MOBO - GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD3 AM3+ AMD 990FX + SB950 6 x SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard

PSU- Rosewill RG630-S12 – Green Series 630-Watt Active PFC Power Supply Unit – Continuous @ 104 Deg. F (40C), 80 PLUS

RAM- G.SKILL Sniper Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866 (PC3 14900) Desktop Memory Model F3-14900CL9D-8GBSR

GPU- MSI Radeon HD 7850 DirectX 11 R7850 Twin Frozr 2GD5/OC 2GB 256-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX

CPU- AMD FX-8320 Vishera 8-Core 3.5 GHz (4.0 GHz Turbo) Socket AM3+ 125W FD8320FRHKBOX Desktop Processor

Update: So I tried playing Don't Starve on the SSD and it worked fine. I played for like 30 mins which is more than I've ever ben able to do. I then played the hunter on low settings for like 20 minutes and it also worked fine. So the shut off only seems to happen when the game is a little more graphics intensive. I can run the hunter at max settings when using the HDD though, so it's not my graphics card. any ideas?
 
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photonboy

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Okay,

You really should have told is the HDD worked whereas the SSD did not from the start.

That leaves these probable causes:
1) bad SSD, or
2) bad SSD data cable, or
3) Software issue

It doesn't make sense to be power related as the power draw is less than your hard drive and that's working fine. It's very small anyway.

I don't think it's related to being "graphics intensive" but may simply be part of the SSD is defective or corruption occurred in those spots, or possibly there's a higher data transfer rate whilst gaming in certain spots that reveals a weak spot in the Sata data cable or SSD itself.

So...?

a) Swap data cable
b) run full diagnostics on the SSD
c) do a CLEAN INSTALL of W10

For the clean install plan carefully. You can save the entire "Steamapps" folder and move that back later. Save games are in your Documents or Documents->My Games mostly (or Steam cloud).

quick example:
1) Microsoft Media Creation Tool-> Download and run to burn a USB or DVD image of W10 64-bit (pro/home as applicable. it can auto-detect what you have)

2) backup data, write down e-mail/password for login

3) shut down, unhook any other drives (SSD or HDD) except boot

4) BOOT to install media

5) DELETE all partitions

6) Install (SKIP the key section. that will auto-activate later)

7) finish, wait for Microsoft Updates to finish

8) Install latest GPU driver (Is the AMD Crimson driver stable?)

9) Install Steam, login, shut down, move Steamapps folder to replace current folder
 
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I already tried a second SSD of the same model and a different cable (not the one with the red, black, yellow, and orange cables, but the other one) so I don't think it's the SSD or the cable itself. I did a reset of windows10 and chose the don't keep anything option so it's a cleanish install. Everything is in a folder that says old. I don't think that stuff is being used. I guess what I'm trying to say is I already tried all of your suggestions. I appreciate you taking the time though
 
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