Recently I've been having issues with my current PC. I've had my computer for roughly 3 years and I believe my PSU is starting to die but I'm not sure.
I bought a pre-built from CyberPowerPC(I know, lol) and it ran pretty well for roughly 2 years and I started noticing problems turning on my PC. I have to press the power button multiple times before I can actually power my PC on. Aside from that I never had any additional issues until now.
Basically any time I play modded 2k Skyrim (or just put my GPU on heavy load) my entire computer would shut down in a weird way. My monitors would go dark, showing that I have no signal, my fans will spin high (sometimes they'll spin normally) and my computer becomes completely unresponsive aside from the soundcard. I've been playing Skyrim for roughly 2 years and I bought my graphics card around 6 months ago.
My specs:
CPU: i5 3570k Intel
GPU: 1070GTX NVIDIA
RAM: 8GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 665Mhz
PSU: Xtreme Gear 600W
Motherboard: Gigabyte Technlogy: B75M-D3H
OS: Windows 7 64-bit
I don't think it's a heating issue since my temps would be well below the critical range when it happens. Also the shutdown happened even when my computer was switching to Skyrim while it was opened in the background for at least 10 mins. (Skyrim doesn't stress the GPU when using borderless fullscreen)
At this point, I really think it's my PSU. I've heard all kinds of terrible things about Xtreme Gear and my GPU still works fine with other games. However it's just heavy load that causes it to do this. I even bought a new PSU that should be here tomorrow (CORSAIR CXM series CX750M 750W)
I bought a pre-built from CyberPowerPC(I know, lol) and it ran pretty well for roughly 2 years and I started noticing problems turning on my PC. I have to press the power button multiple times before I can actually power my PC on. Aside from that I never had any additional issues until now.
Basically any time I play modded 2k Skyrim (or just put my GPU on heavy load) my entire computer would shut down in a weird way. My monitors would go dark, showing that I have no signal, my fans will spin high (sometimes they'll spin normally) and my computer becomes completely unresponsive aside from the soundcard. I've been playing Skyrim for roughly 2 years and I bought my graphics card around 6 months ago.
My specs:
CPU: i5 3570k Intel
GPU: 1070GTX NVIDIA
RAM: 8GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 665Mhz
PSU: Xtreme Gear 600W
Motherboard: Gigabyte Technlogy: B75M-D3H
OS: Windows 7 64-bit
I don't think it's a heating issue since my temps would be well below the critical range when it happens. Also the shutdown happened even when my computer was switching to Skyrim while it was opened in the background for at least 10 mins. (Skyrim doesn't stress the GPU when using borderless fullscreen)
At this point, I really think it's my PSU. I've heard all kinds of terrible things about Xtreme Gear and my GPU still works fine with other games. However it's just heavy load that causes it to do this. I even bought a new PSU that should be here tomorrow (CORSAIR CXM series CX750M 750W)