So the story starts when my HDD died and i replaced it with a SSD. After this my computer started to restart randomly when i was gaming. (Yea i set the sata type to ACHI from the get go, so not the issue here). I noticed this with Diablo 3, and it would happen after hours of playing, randomly. Then some time later my psu died, and i replaced it with a raidmax power viking 1000watt psu. I don't remember if the random restarts still occured since i did not game much since then.
But now in the last couple of days, my pc started randomly restarting again. Again, this was like 5-6 hours of playing and sometimes not at all. Experienced this 3 times within a span of a week. Yesterday i got my new gpu; a HD 7970, replacing my old 5850. After installation, the random restarts has gotten much much worse since then. My pc restarts within 10 minutes of playing. I tried testing my pc with Heaven Benchmark, where it started to restart again after a good 10 minutes time.
Before i replaced my gpu i had thought that it was my RAM which was corrupted. But now, im starting to believe it is either the psu or motherboard. When my pc restarts, it restarts without ever turning off the lights or fans of the pc, which is the reason i think the fault lies with the motherboard. Also the motherboard is the only common factor from begining to end.
Any advice from a more technical expert would be appreciated
PS: It is not an issue of overheating.
But now in the last couple of days, my pc started randomly restarting again. Again, this was like 5-6 hours of playing and sometimes not at all. Experienced this 3 times within a span of a week. Yesterday i got my new gpu; a HD 7970, replacing my old 5850. After installation, the random restarts has gotten much much worse since then. My pc restarts within 10 minutes of playing. I tried testing my pc with Heaven Benchmark, where it started to restart again after a good 10 minutes time.
Before i replaced my gpu i had thought that it was my RAM which was corrupted. But now, im starting to believe it is either the psu or motherboard. When my pc restarts, it restarts without ever turning off the lights or fans of the pc, which is the reason i think the fault lies with the motherboard. Also the motherboard is the only common factor from begining to end.
Any advice from a more technical expert would be appreciated
PS: It is not an issue of overheating.