PSU dying?

DethThrasher

DethThrasher

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I recently upgraded from a XFX GTX 260 to a MSI GTX 970 and for some reason it seems to reboot when gaming. It's not a overheating thing as the temps are the same as before (both CPU and GPU rarely pass 60c) and the 970 requires the same amount of power as the 260 did so I'm quite confused. The PSU is a Toughpower Thermaltake 600w and is about 4 years old now so maybe its just long in the tooth? I sadly don't have another PSU to test it with. I wanted to put the GTX 260 back in and test that but I seem to have misplaced my 8 to 6 pin adapter. Thanks
 
What are the rest of your specs?

What happens when you just stress the gpu with Furmark or run Prime on your cpu.
 
I just ran both of those tests for a bit and I didn't get a reboot at all, yet if I play Crysis it's almost instant, should I keep going longer on these tests or could it be driver related?
 
It could be driver related.

Does this happen to any other games, also check C:/Windows/minidump for any latest Blue screens.
 
It happens with all the resource hungry games like GTA IV, Watch Dogs and the like. I tried Return to Castle Wolfenstein from 2001 and it was fine. I did play the new Call of Duty game for about 20 mins and I thought it was solved but it rebooted in the end.

And how do I open DMP files? Is blue screens what i'm getting? because it just reboots the PC, I haven't seen a blue screen in years.
 
Software is who Crashed can read the files, but are there any there with today's date on.

I assume all your temps are ok.
 
crash dump file: C:\Windows\Minidump\122314-35693-01.dmp
This was probably caused by the following module: nvlddmkm.sys (nvlddmkm+0x921828)
Bugcheck code: 0x116 (0xFFFFFA800BF67010, 0xFFFFF880107BE828, 0xFFFFFFFFC000009A, 0x4)
Error: VIDEO_TDR_ERROR
file path: C:\Windows\system32\drivers\nvlddmkm.sys
product: NVIDIA Windows Kernel Mode Driver, Version 347.09
company: NVIDIA Corporation
description: NVIDIA Windows Kernel Mode Driver, Version 347.09
Bug check description: This indicates that an attempt to reset the display driver and recover from a timeout failed.
A third party driver was identified as the probable root cause of this system error. It is suggested you look for an update for the following driver: nvlddmkm.sys (NVIDIA Windows Kernel Mode Driver, Version 347.09 , NVIDIA Corporation).
Google query: NVIDIA Corporation VIDEO_TDR_ERROR

hm..those are the newest drivers no?

And yes temps are fine for the GFX card, the CPU can go up to 75c if its really struggling but that shouldn't cause a reboot should it?
 
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I put the 260 back in and played Crysis for an hour with no reboots, do you think the GPU is faulty or is it just pushing my PSU too far? (even though they required the same watts)
 
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