My computer randomly restarts while playing certain games.

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For a while now, my computer has been randomly restarting when playing certain games (clone hero, overwatch, Rocket league) but doesn't crash on other games (league of legends, rainbow six siege, pubg, monster hunter world). I've tried a ton of stuff including stress tests on gpu(Fumark), cpu(CPU-Z), and ram(memtest86) and not once has it crashed doing a single one of those tests. On top of that i just recently replaced my PSU and it still does it.This is really getting annoying since this has been going on since roughly april so 4-5 months and nothing that i've tried doing has fixed this problem, even after reading a whole bunch of posts here i decided to do my own since i can not find my own solution.

My specs:
OS: Windows 10 Pro
Gpu: GeForce GTX 680
CPU: Intel i5-2400 @ 3.10
Motherboard: Asus Black Series P67H2-A
PowerSupply: Corsair CX750M
Ram: Patriot Memory Signature DDR3 16GB (2 x 8GB CL11 PC3-12800 (1600MHz) x2 (32 gb)
 
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sorry i have to comment on this to save you if u still have this problem i can 150% be sure is the psu that u have Corsair CX750M is so so bad that i am out of words i had the same psu and it cant provide 450w for my system and it says it is 750 w u can fix your problem by replacing it with gold 850 or 750 psu had the same problem and i did fix it :D
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This sounds like a typical psu problem; and to check that the easiest thing to do is to borrow someones KNOWN good, working, PSU and run it for awhile (if your friend or computer shop will loan it to you for that long). If the problem persists then it isn't the power supply.
It also could be heat; If you haven't already done it clean out the inside of the pC really well using canned air and/or a vacuum (careful of the vac. as it can build up static electricity, use it lightly and carefully). And yet another 'heat' issue could possibly be a single small component that is not monitored nor getting direct cooling air: it heats to a certain temp and everything shuts down.
But from your testing those things may not be involved at all
Recently I had a similar problem; no specific game(s), and not always when I was gaming, but the PC would shut down. Turned out to be the Hard Drive. You don't mention if you are running a platter drive (HDD) or an SSD, but my recommendation is the same: Run Windows Check Disk (chk dsk) and when you set it up have it attempt repairs if any problems are found. If it finds any bad sectors or has a lot of bad info, then it might be time for a new hard drive.
If you aren't watching when it finishes the test (in could take as much as 8+ hours on a big HDD) your PC should reboot; you can find the report in Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Event viewer>Windows Logs>Application. Scroll to find "Wininit"
This section, Administrative Tools and Event Viewer, can also be used to find some guidance as to why it is shutting down in the first place. If you know the last date and approx. time it quit you can look through Application or System and see if any warnings popped up (I would bet they did) and that may provide a guide as to what went wrong.
 
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well i replaced the power supply and it's done it once since, only once, and i replaced it roughly a week ago, and i've been monitoring the temps and nothing gets that hot to the point of crashing, and if there is i never get the warning or anything that it's over heating or that it did over heating although i have never seen it over heat. i'm running both a hard drive and an ssd (OP on ssd) but i can try to check them, although i don't know if there is a problem with those since i have checked them before but i'll do that soon. do you think it could have anything to do with a gpu going bad? since recently and i've only noticed it when playing league is that i would have random like frame pauses, like it would drop too 12 frames but it would pause for a very short amount of time. it doesn't happen consistently but it does happen once maybe twice a game or sometimes it doesn't. and it only happens on league though. i don't seem to have frame lag problems in other games
 
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sorry i have to comment on this to save you if u still have this problem i can 150% be sure is the psu that u have Corsair CX750M is so so bad that i am out of words i had the same psu and it cant provide 450w for my system and it says it is 750 w u can fix your problem by replacing it with gold 850 or 750 psu had the same problem and i did fix it :D
 
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