Computer turning off while playing games.

Liamoconn

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When I got my pc 2 months ago it would turn off while playing games every few hours.
Then it got more frequent so we bought a new graphics card thinking that it could be the problem, But it still shut down, Then we got a new power supply, Then Motherboard, Hard drive, Cpu cooler Ram, and then finally the last thing to change the cpu but it still shuts down..
My dad built his own pc with my old parts but when he put in the cpu it broke his motherboard..
We have changed everything other than the case and fans.. So I really don't know what could be wrong, Some times the computer would smell like burning plastic but I don't know what it could be...
 

Liamoconn

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Motherboard: Msi Gaming 970
Ram: 16GB
Cpu: AMD FX 8350 Eight-Core Proccessor
Graphics card: AMD Radeon HD 7950 3GB
If there is any other that I left out that you need to know tell me and I will find it
 

Liamoconn

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We got two other power supply's and it still shut down
But they were probably cheap as well
Thanks I will try to get that,
 

Liamoconn

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We brought the pc into another room and it still shit down
 

akseli

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Check CPU and graphics card temperatures after playing for a while. It's probably either overheating, or weak power supply. Weaker lower quality power supplies may after running long at heavy load, overheat. The latter kind of problem gradually gets worse and it takes less time to fail, which would apply to your case.


But check the temperatures, if they are still OK(google around for acceptable temps for each) then power supply is quite likely problem. Overheating GPU should cause graphics errors instead of shutdown, slowly overheating CPU might, typically not, but might cause an eventual shutdown. But it's likely the power supply like said and since both CPU and GPU are power hungry you can't replace weak power with another weak power.