PC turning off after playing a game for about 20 minutes
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Hey all
My PC is fairly new, and I only have a 350W PSU in it, and I'm assuming this is the problem, just wanted a confirmation before I actually buy a new PSU, would you guys agree?
Cheers
No one will be able to tell you about PSU needed if you don't list your components. Give a list of what you have in machine in detail if possible.
To check temps you can use:
realtemp (for cpu) - http://www.techpowerup.com/realtemp/
gpu-z (for gpu) - http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/
Might be worth seeing what temps and stability are like running a program called prime95.
Also worth doing a memtest using bootable cd - http://www.memtest86.com/
You'll need a program like powerISO (free) to create a bootable CD but it's very easy, just burn the iso to disc and restart PC and boot from CD
In fact, it is a 250w PSU, the make is FSP Group Inc, which was the stock PSU, so probably is the problem?
How?
How?
Okay got it, so what am I looking for? Had a quick browse and couldn't really work out much...
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Most likely. A generic PSU running close to it's limit will alway cause problems. Get yourself a quality 400-450w, that'll give you a bit of headroom and future expansion capacity.
Not too experienced in this but any problems I think are likely to be in errors tab (you may have odd service error etc that you can ignore). See if anything logged around the time that the PC shut itself off, that's likely to be relevant.
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Could you recommend one? I have a 700w in my old PC, but won't fit in my new case
What case is it? Does it need an mATX PSU? Good one's are hard to come by... i'd probably get a different case anyway, small one's are bad for airflow. What are your temps getting to anyway?
Didn't seem to exceed 50 on Core 1,2,3,4 ... but I'm gonna run actual games and test it instead of stress tests soon.
It's a Packard Bell iXtreme X6618 UK unfortunately, so not too sure whether the motherboard will fit another case...
So this is the case:
I just changed the GFX Card and added a Sound Card, so I'm pretty sure it'd be the PSU as the GFX is better (and more powerful) and with the added stress of a sound card can't help.
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Doesn't Packard Bell use a custom ATX connector on their boards to stop you using a standard PSU or something silly like that??
Sorry for a being dumb, which one is the ATX connector?
And I just realised what the problem may also be... My PC just died simply from browsing the interweb... and I've recently had another PC plugged into the same extension cable as this PC, so too much strain on that could be the problem, as this PSU is less powerful than the other and could be hogging all the power? Just an idea though...