Computer rebooting at random after buying GTX 760 graphics card

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Urt

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I just bought myself a new graphics card, a GTX 760, to be able to play Watch Dogs, but after installing it yesterday my computer has rebooted randomly 3 or 4 times. Only pattern I've noticed so far (and it might just be a coincidence) is that it's always happening OUTSIDE of the game, but that's the only semblance of pattern so far...

I've had a similar problem before, which went away after I got new coolers in my cabinet, so my guess is that it might be related to overheating in some way?

My power supply is a "corsair vx550w". From what I've read it should be enough, but I'm including it just in case. The more info the better I assume.

My system information is as follows:
Item Value
OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate
Version 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name BOB-PC
System Manufacturer Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
System Model GA-970A-DS3
System Type x64-based PC
Processor AMD FX(tm)-8150 Eight-Core Processor, 3600 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date Award Software International, Inc. F1, 09-01-2012
SMBIOS Version 2.4
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale Danmark
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.1.7601.17514"
User Name Bob-PC\Bob
Time Zone Romance Daylight Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 8,00 GB
Total Physical Memory 7,98 GB
Available Physical Memory 5,78 GB
Total Virtual Memory 16,0 GB
Available Virtual Memory 13,5 GB
Page File Space 7,98 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys


I'm in no way a computer expert, quite the opposite tbh, so any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance :)
 


The PSU's you mentioned all have lots of SATA (for SATA drives) and molex (for ATA drives) so you should be fine... I would probably go with the XFX or OCZ
 
Just ordered an XFX Core Edition PRO650W PSU, now I just need to find either a computer savy friend who can install it for me or a hardware store that won't rip me off installing it for me. Will let you know how it worked out :)