PC restarting while gaming

leftwing42

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Whenever I've played any games that could even remotely be considered hard to run, my PC usually lasts about an hour before it restarts. I'm not sure what the issue is, there's no blue screen, no windows errors post-restart, nothing that I can figure out. I have the asus surge protection disabled, because I read it was unneeded. My PC is mostly brand new, so I don't know what the issue could be.

The games that haven't had restarts:
Counter Strike Global Offensive
League of Legends
Witcher 3***(Only played 1 hour)

Games that restarted:
Ark: Survival Evolved
Rust
Miscreated


My rig consists of:
EVGA nvidia GTX 1080
intel i7 6700k
Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO cooler
ASUS Z170-A motherboard
G.SKILL ripjaws V series 16 gb ram
PSU - Rosewill HIVE 650w

I didn't replace my psu when I got my new pc, because I was under the impression 650w would be enough. My temps aren't rising too high while playing. Any help would be appreciated
 
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relying to experience and only to it, i would say it's a power issue. If the shutdowns happen only while gaming and not while being idle for example it's either temps or PSU most likely.

codygriffy

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One thing I would suggest is if you have anything over clocked. Go into your bios and any OS software you have and set everything to default. If you still have the restarts while playing those certain games we can go from there. If you seem to not have the restarts any more then you may be having a power problem.
 

slyverine

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relying to experience and only to it, i would say it's a power issue. If the shutdowns happen only while gaming and not while being idle for example it's either temps or PSU most likely.
 
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leftwing42

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Nothing is overclocked atm, it's all new enough that i havn't done any before this started
 

leftwing42

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that's what i'm afraid of. I might just have to look at getting a new psu then