Why does PC keep shutting down?

scriblesvurt · 11 Feb 2008 at 21:22

Hello,

I built a new PC recently and it has been fine. I added a MSI NX8800GT and since then when playing games it keeps just shutting down the whole machine?!?

Here is the Spec:

Athlon 5000 Black edition
Gigabyte
4 x Mircon Major1 gig DDR2 800Mhz
MSI NX8800GT OC 512MB
1 x 120GIG SATA HDD
SumVision 500W PSU
Vista Home Premium

It happens when running COD4 and STALKER at full settings. Plays for about 5 mins then just totaly powers down.

I ran Everest Logs to see what was happening as I thought perhaps temp problem but looks ok to me. Any Ideas??

scriblesvurt · 11 Feb 2008 at 21:34

Yeah reboot right away no problem. I set the GPU Fan to 100% and CPU fan to 100% and if you look at the results above neither get over 60 Degrees. Not sure about the PSU deailts will try to find out.

scriblesvurt · 11 Feb 2008 at 21:47

Aparently it's 20amps, but I did have a exaust fan running after the GPU too which I have now taking off so it is just power to GPU. Is 20 Amps too los for this Card?

scriblesvurt · 11 Feb 2008 at 21:55

Yes I am... Hmmm I guess If I am willing to spen for the GPU i should also spen for the PSU to drive it! :-)

No other PSU. Will have to go for it and buy a better one. Any recomendations as to wattage / ampage?

Thanks for all help! :-)