Potential Surge Problem, PSU or GPU?

[Nobbzii]

Hi, I recently built this PC:
MB: ASUS Z97-A
PSU: Corsair CX600M
CPU: 4690K
GPU: Gigabyte GTX 970 G1 Gaming
SSD: Samsung 120GB 850
HDD: WD Caviar Blue 1TB
RAM: 2x4GB HyperX Savage

I completed the build in February and it worked a dream, i wasn't around for a month or so and came back yesterday to find the PC restarting to the ASUS surge protection screen, i've read about it been very sensitive and to turn it off but i think i might genuinely have a problem.

Initially it was just when playing very intensive games (Far Cry 4, Assassins Creed etc.) however this morning i couldn't even get past the windows log in screen. I've just removed the graphics card and it seems to be working fine without any restarts.

Is there a problem with the graphics card? Or could it be a PSU problem and me removing the graphics card has just reduced the load to a stable amount? 600W is enough for that build I think?

Thanks

Dom

 

[holyprof]

The PSU might be faulty and the power draw of your gpu enough to make the output voltage drop, tripping the surge protection. I'm running an old quad core cpu with radeon 7770 and it pulls less than 300W at full load so i guess your system should be ok with quality 600 or even 500W PSU (presuming it works as intended).

Also check the PCI-Express power connectors of your GPU, if they're not well inserted/faulty, that would force the GPU to draw more power from the motherboard instead (and trip the protection).