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GrizzlyStoner

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So I recently built a Pc for my GF and decided to upgrade mine at the same time, so I put my old GPU in her system and upgraded mine to a radeon 470x. On the day I made the changes my PC would shutdown 2min after Opening wow or Bf4 but not rocket league... I went out and bought and new PSU 750w mastercooler. Everything went fine for a week but today when opening up Bf1 open beta it shutdown instantly when I crashed a car. Later in the afternoon in a boss fight in WoW same thing happened... What is the problem because 550$ later my PC isnt in better shape.
P.S. I have 8gb ddr3 1866 ram and amd fx 6300 cpu not even a year old. Motherboard is also not a year old.
 
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Maybe you could describe what "Shutdown" and "PC turns off randomly" means to you. Generally a PC that has "shutdown" is no longer running and will not allow you to keep talking on skype. Describing the symptoms exactly means people are more likely to be able to help.

For starters, since changing video cards happened at about the same time that your trouble...
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wabbajockey

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Download the Furmark program and run it. If it causes your computer to shut down then you have a problem with your GPU.

Did you plug enough power plugs into the graphics card? You may have only plugged in a 6 pin for a card that requires 8 pins.
 
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GrizzlyStoner

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Neither, it just happened again 5 minutes ago while being on skype and playing Bf1, and when the ''shutdown'' occured, I was still able to talk with the person although not being able to do anything else (ctrl+alt+delete) Let me know if this helps
 
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tsnor

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Maybe you could describe what "Shutdown" and "PC turns off randomly" means to you. Generally a PC that has "shutdown" is no longer running and will not allow you to keep talking on skype. Describing the symptoms exactly means people are more likely to be able to help.

For starters, since changing video cards happened at about the same time that your trouble started, suggest you UNinstall your video drivers then reboot. Then load video drivers from AMD. Do not use any drivers that came on the DVD with your new video card -- the 470 is a new card and the day 1 drivers are more apt to be buggy than the current drivers you can get direct from AMD.

Good luck.

 
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GrizzlyStoner

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okay so I am currently running Furmark and these are the infos that I think may be usefull :
1280x720
fps average 86
AMD Radeon rx 470
Core=770mhz
Mem=1650mhz
Temp=60
GPU load=100%
Fan=89%
Still hasnt crashed
 
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wabbajockey

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Okay. If Furmark ran without failing it's likely neither a problem with the card's power supply or a broken card. I would suggest you follow tsnor's advice and fully uninstall then reinstall your drivers.
 
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