Computer shut down whilst gaming, worried about temperatures.

[AlexSharpe]

Hello,

So I recently upgraded my graphics card from a pretty bad old one to the Nvidia gtx960. I had never done anything like this before but followed some tutorials and managed to change it without any hitches, until now (a day or so later).

Whilst playing Overwatch, my computer suddenly shut itself off as if it had been pulled out at the plug. It would not respond with anything when I tried to turn it back on. At this point I could also smell what seemed like burning. After a while I tried switching the ac cable for another one and suddenly it turns back on as if nothing happened.

I decided to check the temperatures that my parts were running at to see if there were any obvious problems there, as I am now afraid I might end up frying everything. Here is what came back whilst playing the same game that my computer shut down from (after 10 mins or so could start to smell slight burning smell again):

I have seen mixed opinions on what temperatures the parts should be running at. The main one that concerns me is the motherboard 3 running at 65c. When I reach into the system the area between the top of the gtx960 and the motherboard seems to be hot feeling (the new grapics card is massive compared to the old one), so not sure if this is an issue or if any of this or a faulty wire was to blame for the shut down.

Here is idle temperatures (just Chrome running):

Here's a couple of pictures of the computer (second one shows area that is getting hottest):

http://i.imgur.com/Qoy0U9b.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/HRRpGog.jpg

Specs:

OS: Windows 7 64Bit Home
CPU: AMD FX 6200 Six Core
GPU: msi NVIDIA GTX960
PSU: Pulse PPS-750BR
RAM: 2x Corsair 4gb DDR3

I also read into that my PSU is actually quite a poor one despite being high wattage. Have seen a fair few bad reviews on it and the previous graphics card did not require direct power from the PSU whereas the new one does, so this could be the issue.

Any help or advice on the computer at all is greatly appreciated, this was built for me and so do not know too much about how it should be.

Thanks.

 

[Speedy Mcool]

It seems like the part that is burning out is your GPU, what might have happened is it might have just turned off. I actually had the same problem with my 960 and my computer would not boot. But it was not burning. When the screen went black was the computer still running ( Could you hear the fans?)

 

[Tornado57]

You are correct that your psu is pretty bad. Pulse is rated as a tier 5 psu, one that should be avoided at all costs. If I were you, I would change out the psu to a different model, preferably to one no worse than tier 3 (tier 1 or 2 if you're a serious gamer). I would change this out ASAP before it has the chance to do serious damage to the rest of the computer.

 

[Sakkura]

None of those temperatures look alarming to me, so yeah I'd say swap out the power supply and see if that fixes the issue.

 

[maddogfargo]

Bad PSU will do that under load.