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andreas.antwniou3

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I have this issue with my pc. It is not a bsod it just shuts down unexpextedly and it shows a black screen.

Components:
A6 7650k
Msi motherboard
750 ti
Kibgston ram 4gb
Corsair Vs 450w white

The psu is litteraly 3 days old. The other stuff have been through a crappy psu so maybe they are to blame ?
 
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No need to be sad. Most people don't know nothing about PSU quality and they choose the cheapest they can find with popular brand on them, to get some reassurance due to the brand name. e.g Corsair VS or EVGA 500W. While in reality, PSU build quality reflects perfectly on how much the unit costs.

For example, my Skylake build is powered by Seasonic PRIME 650 80+ Titanium. <- That PSU is the best 650W PSU money can buy at current date and i handed out €206 for it. In my Haswell build, i have Seasonic M12II-850 Evo and that unit costed me €98. While in my AMD build, i have Seasonic S12II-520 and it's cost was €64.
You don't need to hand out $170+ to get a top-of-the-line PSU, for $60 or so, you can get good quality PSU to power your PC...
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Kernel_Power error in most cases (if not all) are due to the low quality PSU. Corsair VS series is the worst PSU offered by Corsair and that's a low quality unit. I wouldn't even use VS series to power an office PC without a dedicated GPU and which never sees any high loads, let alone powering a gaming PC with it with dedicated GPU in it.

Most people learn the hard way not to cheap out on a PSU when low quality PSU blows and takes part of it or the whole system with it. Even entire houses have been burned down because of the fire low quality PSU caused when it blowed up.
You can cheap out on every other component inside the PC except PSU. Since PSU powers everything, it is the most important component inside the PC and if you care about your system, you do not want to cheap out on PSU. Also, while the PSU warranty covers the PSU itself and you can RMA the blown PSU, the PSU warranty doesn't cover any other component the PSU fried.

Sadly, only fix for your issue is to buy new, good quality PSU. Here, i suggest you return your VS450 and get any Seasonic unit, in 500W range. 500W range PSU is more than enough for your system and then some. E.g you can upgrade your GPU to GTX 1070 without issues. For 500W range units in Seasonic lineup, you can go for: M12II-520 EVO, G-550, Focus 550 or Focus+ 550,
pcpp: https://pcpartpicker.com/products/compare/TgW9TW,DPCwrH,bkp323,KmgzK8/

Focus and Focus+ are the newest PSU lines from Seasonic and they come with 10 years of OEM warranty. G and M12II EVO series PSUs come with 5 years of OEM warranty.
All my 3 PCs: Skylake, Haswell and AMD are also powered by Seasonic. Full specs with pics in my sig.
 
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andreas.antwniou3

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Thanks for your time
 
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andreas.antwniou3

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Also I looked at another thread and a user suggested that if my voltage drops below 11.6V I should throw it away. I ran Furtest whilst running HWmonitor and the voltage didnt drop below that point. The min value is 11.968.
 
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No need to be sad. Most people don't know nothing about PSU quality and they choose the cheapest they can find with popular brand on them, to get some reassurance due to the brand name. e.g Corsair VS or EVGA 500W. While in reality, PSU build quality reflects perfectly on how much the unit costs.

For example, my Skylake build is powered by Seasonic PRIME 650 80+ Titanium. <- That PSU is the best 650W PSU money can buy at current date and i handed out €206 for it. In my Haswell build, i have Seasonic M12II-850 Evo and that unit costed me €98. While in my AMD build, i have Seasonic S12II-520 and it's cost was €64.
You don't need to hand out $170+ to get a top-of-the-line PSU, for $60 or so, you can get good quality PSU to power your PC for years to come without any random reboot/shut down issues.

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Can your monitor program record the last set of voltages your PSU handed out before your PC shut down? Since when you put a load on low quality PSU, in most cases, the voltage regulation sifts outside of the ATX PSU standard specs of 5% on all rails (10% on -12V rail) and your PSU can't sustain stable enough voltage for your GPU to run under higher load. That's why your PC shuts down once you put higher load on PSU (e.g gaming).

According to the ATX PSU standard, safe voltage ranges are:
+12V DC rail - tolerance ±5% ; +11.40V to +12.60V
+5V DC rail - tolerance ±5% ; +4.75V to +5.25V
+3.3V DC rail - tolerance ±5% ; +3.14V to +3.47V
-12V DC rail - tolerance ±10% ; -10.80V to -13.20V
+5V SB rail - tolerance ±5% ; +4.75V to +5.25V

source, page 12: http://www.formfactors.org/developer/specs/atx12v%20psdg2.01.pdf

Anything lower or higher than that aren't safe for PC components. Lower voltage can cause data corruption while higher voltage can fry components.
 
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andreas.antwniou3

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Ok ill get on that meanwhile is there any way to tell if anything else has been fried?
 
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