Good morning everyone,
Specs are below
So, i purchased an MSI R9 390 a few days ago and had it delivered yesterday. Me being overly excited, I went straight to PC and installed it. It was running fine after all the drivers were updated. But only for 5 minutes. After testing out a few games, my PC randomly shut off, and after leaving it for 30 mins to cool, it wouldn't power up.
My guess is that it was my crappy cheap PSU. I cant remember exactly what make and model it was, but trust me it was awful. It was so bad that i had to use a dual molex to 6 pin pcie to power the 390. I also used an 8 pin which was straight from the PSU.
The questions are as follows:
1. Was it the cheap PSU that caused this?
2. Or was it the dual molex to 6 pin adapter i used?
3. I'm guessing that my PSU is dead but i have no way of testing it. So I have purchased this PSU, do you guys think it will be enough?
http://www.ebuyer.com/702907-cooler-master-b-series-v2-700w-power-supply-unit-80-efficiency-with-uk-rs700-acabb1-uk
Thank you in advance.
CPU: AMD FX 8320E
RAM: 8GB Kingston
GPU: MSI R9 390
HDD: 1TB Barracuda
SSD: 60 GB Kingston
Mobo: Gigabyte GA-78LMT
Specs are below
So, i purchased an MSI R9 390 a few days ago and had it delivered yesterday. Me being overly excited, I went straight to PC and installed it. It was running fine after all the drivers were updated. But only for 5 minutes. After testing out a few games, my PC randomly shut off, and after leaving it for 30 mins to cool, it wouldn't power up.
My guess is that it was my crappy cheap PSU. I cant remember exactly what make and model it was, but trust me it was awful. It was so bad that i had to use a dual molex to 6 pin pcie to power the 390. I also used an 8 pin which was straight from the PSU.
The questions are as follows:
1. Was it the cheap PSU that caused this?
2. Or was it the dual molex to 6 pin adapter i used?
3. I'm guessing that my PSU is dead but i have no way of testing it. So I have purchased this PSU, do you guys think it will be enough?
http://www.ebuyer.com/702907-cooler-master-b-series-v2-700w-power-supply-unit-80-efficiency-with-uk-rs700-acabb1-uk
Thank you in advance.
CPU: AMD FX 8320E
RAM: 8GB Kingston
GPU: MSI R9 390
HDD: 1TB Barracuda
SSD: 60 GB Kingston
Mobo: Gigabyte GA-78LMT
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