Snowie113

Jello team. I'm having a dilemma on when/what to upgrade to. I'm currently running a AMD FX 8230e and its finally got to the point where I feel I need to upgrade rather then want to. I have been looking into the ryzen series as I do not wish to spend heaps of money. I mostly use my PC for games, mainly older AAA titles and esports titles and photoshop now and then. 1080p gamer also. I am wanting to upgrade to something like a Ryzen 3600x but I am unsure if I should wait for the 5000 series cpu's to come out and if they're worth the extra price and wait. I don't enjoy the thought of spending another £100 ontop of everything else but if the performance is worth it in the long run..yeah. My specs are FX 8320e Radeon 580 sapphire 4gb. 16gb 2333 mixed ram. Asus somethingorother mobo. Corsair 750 semi modular PSU. Ps, is it worth waiting until black friday for sales on cpu/mobo/ram in this price bracket. Cheers.

I can try another psu although its only 500w so I'm not sure if it would be capable.

I will have to dive into this and see what's going on thanks!

I only ever do that if I have to, otherwise I just turn it off normally.

I have been having this problem for a while now where my PC randomly crashes (restarts mostly) whilst I'm running demanding games. Games this effects me in is >Dark souls 3>Battlefield 4>GTA 5>Warframe>Fallout 4 (Modded). Although when I turn down settings to very low/720p in dark souls, it seems to fix this issue, which tends to crash the most out of all the games I play. My pc Specs are Windows 7 64bit Home premium Corsair CX 750W PSU Gigabyte GTX 960 (4gb) GPU AMD 8320E CPU ( ARCTIC Alpine 64 GT Rev.2 cooler) Asus M5A97 MOBO One WD 1tb hdd running windows and games One Seagate barracuda 1Tb backup storage In a Zalman Z11 Plus case. 5 case fans All temps seem to be running fine whilst in games, never exceeding over 70degree's on any component from what I can tell. All parts are regularly dusted. I have tried updating drivers and all that goodness. cranked fans up to keep everything cool, but nothing I do seems to stop the crashing other then turning graphics down to xbox 360 levels. I have unchecked all settings in windows that restarts pc after an error > all power settings are at high performance or similar. If anyone has any ideas on what could be causing these crashes I'd be extremely grateful. Thanks LTT peeps