Instant shutdown whilst gaming?

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Not sure where to put this so apologies if I'm wrong the place.

Was mid way through a game of BF4 just then and PC just instantly shut down out of the blue. I thought we had a power cut for a second, but no.

Was monitoring things whilst playing and everything looked normal.

In the past if I had problems it would freeze up, blue screen whatever, but never had this.

Any idea where I should look for a culprit? Or is too vague to narrow down?
 
Hmm, yeh I'm suspecting the PSU. It's as per my sig and I've recently added a power hungry 390X as well.

Does my setup look like it would use up 600w? (no idea how to calculate these things)
 
I reckon its either PSU not enough juice, or your new graphics card has dodgy ram

Try down clocking the graphics cards ram speed, maybe it will help
 
BF4 is the master stress bench test for spotting unstable overclocks.

You changed anything OC related recently.
 
Sounds like the CPU, either not enough volts or it's overheating.

Do you have a plug you can use to display what is being pulled from the wall? From what I remember my 1000w CM Silent Pro PSU pulled just over 600w with two GTX 480's, a heavily clocked 2700K and my watercooling setup. I'd have thought you'd be way below that.
 
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Thanks for the suggestions.

It is all overclocked and pushed quite far, although has been gamed and stress tested a fair bit. Will notch them down and see how it gets on I think.

Unfortunately don't have anything to read the power at the plug.
 
Well first step is to go back to stock clocks and see if the problem stops. If it doesn't, it could be hardware. If it does, you need to fix your overclock.
 
Orch Last year i had the exact same symptoms with my PC as you are having now.
For me it was my PSU due to my new GPU taking to much power from the PSU.

check out the thread here : http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18673398

Since changing the PSU the pc returned to normal.

I see your system is overclocked , before spending any money though i would suggest removing all overclocks and try it at default for a week or so.
 
Yeah it your PSU.

390X is power hungry required 30A +12V but I looked at your Silent Pro M600 technical spec that PSU used maximum 40A +12V so that is crap. Your system need bigger PSU with over 50A +12V.
 
Decided to take one thing at a time. Have reduced the overclock on the GPU first. Have just done an hour of BF4 and no problems so far. If it happens again I'll notch the CPU back as well and see what that does.

Will start eyeing up PSU prices though I think, just in case.
 
Orch said:
Decided to take one thing at a time. Have reduced the overclock on the GPU first. Have just done an hour of BF4 and no problems so far. If it happens again I'll notch the CPU back as well and see what that does.

Will start eyeing up PSU prices though I think, just in case.
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Get a Superflower one if you change PSU. ;)
 
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