James James

A quick update: I'm not sure if this affects the situation but people seem to get this wrong, the computer doesent just turn off instantly, first the graphics card fails then there is a pause and then the computer seems to just reset. Maybe its linked to the temperature if this is the case?

i meant that i ordered it earlier today, its gonna take a couple of days to arrive, but anyways thanks for all the replies. i really hope that it hasnt caused any damage cus i dont really have that much money atm

also i earlier today bought a CX650M to replace my old psu

yea those posts were more about the problem this was about that it can do to my hardware I have a corsair 450W powersupply i had a r9 270 that i replaced with the new gpu (gtx 1060 3gb) i have a amd fx 4300 (yes i know the new gpu bottlenecks it, just got a good price on the gpu) 8gb ballistix ram can be bothered to find out the motherboard name rn but its a gigabyte Note: The computer is a couple years old so thats why the parts a old and cheap too

Well if my computer seems to work perfectly now it means there is no damage right, i have even cheked the memory and there seems to be no problems, right?

okay so im not sure if this is true or not, but im hoping someone can answer this. I recently bought a new graphics card, but quickly i noticed a problem. My PSU isnt delivering enough power to my new GPU and its causing the whole computer to crash when im using the GPU heavily, this has happende 4 times now. Can this cause any damage to the hardware itself?

Well that would explain why some games work and some don't, i think my choises are to either buy a new psu or try to buy a cpu that doesent take as much power( even though my cpu doesent take that much power anyways). But anyways thank you for the reply

Ok! Thank you for your help, i will see what i do !

@Hugsy Malone Hello! Thank you for the reply! I will use the repair tools that windows has to see if anything is wrong and i have already cheked all the cables so there is no problem with that.

Also while im here i would like to ask something else from you guys, see i'm not really good with computers and i'm kinda paranoid about damaging my hardware. So is it possible that my computer crashing suddenly like that has somehow damaged my new gpu. Sorry if this is a stupid question, but again as i said i'm kinda paranoid about that.

@Alex Colson yea when i had my old gpu there was no problems and when i took it out of my system i had no problems either so i think that is it. Only one thing bugging me, my old gpu's recommended powersupply was 600W but it worked perfectly on my Corsair 450W but now i have a gpu thats reccomended is 500W it doesent work on my Corsair 450W, so i think thats kinda strange.

Hello! So about 3 years ago i bought the parts to my first computer, and while its been running pretty well trough the years its been getting a little slow. The parts in my computer are: AMD fx 4300, AMD Sapphire Dual-X R9 270, the Corsair CM450M powersupply, 8 gb DDR3 Ballistix ram and a Gigabyte 78LMT-USB3 motherboard. On black friday i decided to buy a Asus GTX 1060 3gb becouse it had a really good price and it was recommended. And yes i know that my processor will botlleneck the new gpu, but again as i said it had a really good price and was recommended. So fast forward to the past two days. I installed the new gpu in my old system, deleted my old AMD drivers and installed the new NVIDIA ones. At first it was running well and it increased the fps a little, again i didnt expect it to increase it hugely becouse of the bottleneck. While i was playing The Long Dark with it installed it crashed the whole computer, at first the screen went dark and told that there is no connection, then the whole computer shut down and when it went on back again the gpu fans made a huge noise and the computer just turned on again. The gpu or the inside of my case didnt feel that warm or anything so i just thought it was something else. Well in these two days the computer has had the same thing happen to it while playing games 3 times. I asked my brother what was wrong with it and he said that he didn't really know, but told me to take the gpu out, run the computer with no gpu and delete all the drivers, then install the gpu and the drivers back again. I did so and everything seemed to be fine, i even launched a couple of games and played them with really good performances. but after about 30 minutes of playing the computer did the same thing for the fourth time. The fourth time i was expecting it and cheked the gpu fans every couple of minutes and they were working like they are supposed to. So here comes my final question what is causing the crashes, is it the 450W psu, when the recommended for the new gpu is 500W, is it somehow the bottleneck from the fx 4300, or is the gpu just broken? note: i havent touched any settings concerning the gtx 1060 and i have a hard time believing that the psu is causing the crashes when my old gpu's reccomended was 600W and it worked perfectly on my 450W psu. note 2: the computer crashed 3 times while playing The Long Dark and once playing Rainbow Six Siege. But i have played League Of Legends and Destiny 2 with it for multiplse hours straight with no errors. note 3: I am using the same computer to write this and it has had no problems, the problems only appear when i'm playing graphics intensive games Also if any of you are kind enough what would be the best thing to upgrade next, i have about 200-300 euros to spare.