My PC is randomly restarting when playing games

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My pc specs:

INTEL CORE i3-4170 3.7GHz
ASROCK H97M ANNIVERSARY
GSKILL RIPJAWSX 2×4GB DDR3 1600MHz
PALIT STORMX GTX750Ti 2GB GDDR5 128BIT
KINGSTON V300 120GB SSD
WESTERN 1TB BLUE 7200RPM
CORSAIR VS450

My pc is randomly restarting whenever I play games like GTA 5, NBA 2K16, World of Warcraft and other demanding titles, but if I play Gamehouse games it doesn't restart. Could this be a GPU problem? Or other? I haven't updated any drivers or whatsoever since I bought it January last year (I'm a total beginner at these issues, and I just game, download and stream). If I downloaded the newest drivers, will this fix my issue? Thanks guys!
 
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Random restarts during heavy gaming is mostly caused by 2 issues:
1. CPU/GPU overheats and PC shuts itself down to prevent damage due to the excess heat.
2. Low quality PSU fails to deliver enough power to the system during heavy usage and whole system shuts down due to this.

To find out if it's the issue #1, monitor your temps during gaming. If you don't have any program to monitor your temps then here's 2 good programs that i use:
1. Speccy: https://www.piriform.com/speccy
It's easy to use and can operate in system tray to show temps in real time. (I've set it to show my GPU temp.)

2. HWinfo64: https://www.hwinfo.com/download.php
More complex to use but gives far more in-depth information about system and comes with logging feature...
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Random restarts during heavy gaming is mostly caused by 2 issues:
1. CPU/GPU overheats and PC shuts itself down to prevent damage due to the excess heat.
2. Low quality PSU fails to deliver enough power to the system during heavy usage and whole system shuts down due to this.

To find out if it's the issue #1, monitor your temps during gaming. If you don't have any program to monitor your temps then here's 2 good programs that i use:
1. Speccy: https://www.piriform.com/speccy
It's easy to use and can operate in system tray to show temps in real time. (I've set it to show my GPU temp.)

2. HWinfo64: https://www.hwinfo.com/download.php
More complex to use but gives far more in-depth information about system and comes with logging feature that records system min, average and max temps among other things.

If your temps are all within good range during heavy gaming then it's your low quality (Tier four) Corsair VS series PSU that fails to deliver enough power to your system.

Tier Four
Built down to a low price. Not exactly the most stable units ever created. Very basic safety circuitry or even thin gauge wiring used. Not for gaming rigs or overclocking systems of any kind. Avoid unless your budget dictates your choice.
Click to expand...
PSU Tier list: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-2547993/psu-tier-list.html

For new PSU, aim for a good quality (Tier two) PSU, preferably great quality (Tier one) PSU if you can afford it.
Here i suggest Seasonic, for you, 500W range PSU will do just fine.
E.g Seasonic G-550. It's Tier two, 80+ Gold efficiency, semi-modular and comes with 5 years of warranty.
pcpp: http://pcpartpicker.com/product/DPCwrH/seasonic-power-supply-ssr550rm

Seasonic PSU has enough juice to even power GTX 1070 if you want to upgrade your GPU.

All my 3 PCs: Skylake, Haswell and AMD are also powered by Seasonic. Full specs in my sig. (Got PRIME series in Skylake, M12II EVO series in Haswell and S12II series in AMD.)
 
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