Video / Power issue (What would you do)

[3246251196]

I have an issue where whenever I play a "high-demanding" game my system just reboots. I have never known my video card go over 100 deg, so I guess it is a power issue...?

My video card is the nV 560Ti PCIe (I bought this last year)
PSU is OCZ Z-Series 650w SLI Certified Power Supply (I bought this in 2009)

The system is flawless other that this, no weird artifacting or anything. Just whenever I play a game such as Max Payne3, Deus E, GW2 after a while it will just shut down and Windows will give the classic Event 63 Power Error message in the logs.

So, it has to be either an overheating issue/power issue; of course, these two go hand in hand I would expect as with a bad PSU things can get hot, but I do not think <100deg would be enough to shut down.

What would you do? And I am not going to use a multimeter tool.

Cheers.

 

[SpeckleD]

Do you not have a friend you could borrow a PSU from to eliminate this from the equation?

 

[3246251196]

I too am a fan of elimination but I do not know anyone close to where I am currently working in the South West. I would have to wait until I go back to the North East for this.

Another thing is that I hate the inconsistency of it all. I would have to test for hours on end as this is just asynchronous, sometimes it may work okay.

If you were to take a bet, you would bet on the PSU?

 

[SpeckleD]

What are the temps like in your case? it maybe that the temp build up in you case would get to a point that your PSU overheats causing the issue, so may not actually be a faulty PSU? failing this my first thoughts would be the PSU.

 

[tommybhoy]

560's are known for TDR issues, it usually only results in a crash to desktop, but it could be causing a complete shutdown due to what's running on your OS-something to look into.

Event viewer may catch it before the system crashes.

A little bit of extra voltage on the core@stock usually cures it.