For the past few weeks my PC has just begun restarting randomly (mainly when I play heavy load games like Rainbow 6: Siege, Mordhau, etc...)
I thought it was a faulty PSU because it was a cheap, off-brand, non-rated PSU and it was 2 years old already, so I bought a new one and changed it. For a few hours everything seemed fine until just now it restarted again, on its own. I don't understand what's wrong. It's connected to an extension cord as there is no close plug in the wall, and I'm wondering if that could be causing the problem? Even though I have other stuff connected to it as well such as my router and my net doesn't go down when it happens? Plus it has always been connected to an extension cord for the whole 2 years I've had this PC.
Motherboard - MSI B150A Gaming Pro
2 sticks of 4GB DDR4 2133 RAM
GTX 1070Ti 8GB VRAM
i5-6500 3.2 MHz
The new PSU is a Cooler Master Masterwatt 650W TUF Gaming Edition
Running Windows 10 on an SSD
I thought it was a faulty PSU because it was a cheap, off-brand, non-rated PSU and it was 2 years old already, so I bought a new one and changed it. For a few hours everything seemed fine until just now it restarted again, on its own. I don't understand what's wrong. It's connected to an extension cord as there is no close plug in the wall, and I'm wondering if that could be causing the problem? Even though I have other stuff connected to it as well such as my router and my net doesn't go down when it happens? Plus it has always been connected to an extension cord for the whole 2 years I've had this PC.
Motherboard - MSI B150A Gaming Pro
2 sticks of 4GB DDR4 2133 RAM
GTX 1070Ti 8GB VRAM
i5-6500 3.2 MHz
The new PSU is a Cooler Master Masterwatt 650W TUF Gaming Edition
Running Windows 10 on an SSD