computer shuts down during gaming,GPU or PSU gone bad?

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Abhiraj Singh

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Feb 11, 2015
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hello, i am having a big problem right now, for the last couple of months playing games like rise of the tomb raider or fallout 4, after 15-20 minutes my UPS starts to beeps continuously until i alt tab the game,so i get rid of UPS & directly take power,but because of that my computer restarts while playing games without any warning so i put UPS back,because at-least it gives me warning allow me to alt tab to prevent restarting, here is my system specs, i build my system around 15 months ago & played games like Witcher 3, MGS5, GTA5, dragon age inq, assessions creed unity without any problem

FX6300 cpu
MSI R9 280x 3gb gaming edition GPU
78MLT-S2 motherboard
corsair SV 650 Watt PSU
8 gr corsair ram

i already tried these things:
cleaned my pC
reapplied thermal paste in GPU & CPU, while cpu temps now are 53-55 degree, GPU has not showing any temps now (probably sensor has broken)before applying paste its showing around 85 degree cel. under full load, now i can only see vram temps which are showing 80-90 degree in full load

one more thing most of the time this beeping(with UPS) or shutting down(with direct power) happen when there is big firefight or explosions happening in the game

i dont know if this is GPU's fault of PSU's fault
please give me suggestion as this problem is making me mad



 


He means your wall socket, but it should be delivering at least 15 amps. if you have a problem on the current socket you may want to try a different one.
 


so looks like problem has been solved after removing UPS & drowing power directly from the wall socket, my GPU fan was defenately one culprit , & ups another, now i am not sure that my smps was responsible at all, anyways the problem is solved,thanks