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PC issues linked to new GPU

rossk26

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Starting to get frustrated about my PC shutting down randomly when in games (Squad and GTA V).

Only change has been a graphics card upgrade, I bought my mates old GTX 780ti

My current rig:
i5-2500K 3.3GHz
Asus Sabertooth P67
Vengeance 8GB DDR3
Corsair 750HX

Is this rig capable of running the card? How can I find out why my PC keeps crashing? The card is fine, was working in my friends PC flawlessly.

Only thing I can think, is I had to use the pin adapters that came with the card, as I didn't have a 8 and 6 pin from my PSU.

Any help greatly appreciated
 
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have a look in event viewer and see if it gives you anymore information of why its shut down.

does the PC just go off or does it display any errors?

PC should be fine, I have a i7 950 @ 4.2ghz running a 390 and so far so good with a 750w Corsair PSU (2 x 8 pin connecters required for my gpu)

double check the GPU is inserted fully in to the pci slot along with checking the 8 pin connecters.

how long can you game before it shuts down?
 
ED209 said:
have a look in event viewer and see if it gives you anymore information of why its shut down.

does the PC just go off or does it display any errors?

PC should be fine, I have a i7 950 @ 4.2ghz running a 390 and so far so good with a 750w Corsair PSU (2 x 8 pin connecters required for my gpu)

double check the GPU is inserted fully in to the pci slot along with checking the 8 pin connecters.

how long can you game before it shuts down?
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PC just shuts down, no blue screen, no errors. It's random when it crashes too, I can play rocket league all day without issue. But then squad and GTA V will crash the PC either between 1 and 15 minutes into a game.
 
Here's a photo explaining how I've used the adapters included with the GPU card to connect it to my PSU

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I am probably an idiot and misinterpreting your picture but it looks like there are 2 PCI-E connectors coming from the PSU so the adapters are not required?
 
The two PCI-E are both 6 pins, and the GPU needs 8pin and 6pin. The adapter for the 8pin requires 2 6 pins.
 
Ah yes! Thank you, I feel like an utter noob now, I just assumed they were 2 6 pins with 2 2 pins :S

Anyway, now looks like this, much neater, and hopefully the issue resolved!! Fingers crossed.

MkSnLae.jpg
 
Just to update, only had 1 crash since changing the connections.

Only happened in squad while in the server browser (so not drawing a lot from the GPU).

It's much more stable now, and I'll keep an eye on it over the next few days. I have a feeling it may be RAM related. So I've switched the slots to see if that helps. But probably need to run a memtest.

Thanks again for your help. As it stands, all good :)
 
Had my fingers and toes all crossed, but the issue is still there.

Trying to load GTA V last night and it just crashed several times whilst trying to load into online.

Then eventually got it to run, turned down the setting on the graphics. But then when I switched to squad about 2-3 hours into the PC being turned on. It failed again.

:( not having much luck finding the cause to this
 
Can you run up MSI afterburner or similar and set it logging to get a feel for the temperatures of the card when it bombs out? You can probably log the voltage using afterburner as well.
 
Try uninstalling your display drivers then running 'DDU - Display Driver Uninstaller' to clear any remnants.

It might not be software and could be your PSU in the end, how old is the PSU?
 
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