Question PSU causing games to crash and monitor screens to turn black ?

[keeran989]

I just got a new 750 watt power supply because my old power supply kept burning any new hard drive i put into it, but when I play games both my monitors go black for a few seconds and my game crashes i have a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti gpu which only needs around 600watts from what i remember and a AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core Processor and one hard drive. nothing overheats, and I don't overclock it at all.

 

[--SID--]

I just got a new 750 watt power supply

What's the brand and model of this PSU?

 

[Misgar]

If the "old power supply kept burning any new hard drive i put into it" I'd be very concerned about the health of other components, e.g. mobo, GPU, etc.

What exactly happened to the new hard drives with the old PSU? If they were spinning hard disks, this might indicate the +12V rail on the old PSU was way outside the normal range of +11.4 to +12.6V.

A faulty 12V rail could also damage the GPU and CPU VRM stages.

 

[keeran989]

What's the brand and model of this PSU?

It's a ThermaltakeTR2 S 750 watts. sorry it took so long to respond i havent had the time to check.

 

[keeran989]

If the "old power supply kept burning any new hard drive i put into it" I'd be very concerned about the health of other components, e.g. mobo, GPU, etc.

What exactly happened to the new hard drives with the old PSU? If they were spinning hard disks, this might indicate the +12V rail on the old PSU was way outside the normal range of +11.4 to +12.6V.

A faulty 12V rail could also damage the GPU and CPU VRM stages.

the gpu and cpu seem fine. It only started crashing after I had changed the power supply.

 

[--SID--]

It's a ThermaltakeTR2 S 750 watts. sorry it took so long to respond i havent had the time to check.

You bought a garbage PSU. Better spend your money on smt decent. Tier B at least https://cultists.network/140/psu-tier-list/