Likelihood that PSU causing issues?

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I recently got hooked up with a 1080 Ti from a friend's business, and needless to say I was pretty stoked. I've recently installed it into my computer which is ~5 years old, and it works well in low stress situations but crashes in heavier games (AC:Origins, Tomb Raider etc)

I did some digging into my computer specs. I read that 600W PSU was minimum to drive a 1080 Ti. However, i searched my PSU and it has a reasonably low Current Rating (i read elsewhere that you need minimum 37A for the 1080 Ti). My PSU is a bronze 600W - https://www.cnet.com/products/in-win-cq-series-ip-p600cq3-2-power-supply-600-watt/specs/ - and seems pretty average.

So my question is - if I buy a new PSU (i am looking at a 750W) and install that, do you reckon it will solve my issues?

CPU: i7-4770
Mobo: Intel DB45FL
Ram: 8GB Ram
PSU: IN WIN CQ-Series IP-P600CQ3-2 600 Watt
GPU: GIGABYTE 1080Ti GV-N108T GAMING OC 11G
 

DSzymborski

Titan
Moderator
Crashing at load without blue screens or warnings tends to gravitate towards being caused by temperatures or power issues. If you've verified that the temperatures are not a problem, I'd replace the PSU; it was OKish a decade ago, but that's an ancient design and I think it's been a number of years since that PSU was even manufactured.
 
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Good call. I've got a "Silverstone 750W 80 PLUS Gold Certified Power Supply" on the way. 62A Total rated current. Will see how that goes and update.
 
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OK so I installed new Silverstone 750w-G power supply but it didn’t solve the issue.

Further reading and testing led me to a SOLUTION. I changed my Windows Pagefile to 16GB from the default of 3 GB and it has been completely stable since.

I only have 8GB of RAM so I think my computer was struggling with games on Ultra settings. The pagefile solution has completely solved it for me!