Haven’t touched this computer in a while but it was my main rig for a long time. Even after the flood in my basement. The psu got flooded. Dried it out and worked fine for another 10 months. Thermaltake case so psu was the only thing that got flooded. This computer was never meant to be a gaming powerhouse. It was mainly built as mass storage for all my kids Disney movies and series so they could watch as they pleased. Well now my daughter want to play games with me. She’s mostly into roblox and similar games. Maybe a little fortnite? I know this computer can do it cause I’ve done it. It’s budget to the extreme cause wife, mortgage, 3 kids and life get expensive so please, no stupid comments. ?
I guess I’ll start with what’s inside.
ASRock 960GMIU3S3
fx4100 black box edition (never overclocked)
16 gb ddr3 1600 (2x 8gb sticks)
cooler master cpu heat sink and fan.
240gb ssd for boot
WD blue 7200 1TB hdd
gt 480 passive video card (only for the single hdmi output to the living room tv)
like I said before the computer ran fine for 10 months after the basement flood. Finally I turned it off one day and it wouldn’t restart. Got a Corsair tx650 psu from my cousin and put it in. Runs fine. Was able to load up WoW and play with a FPS of about 40. After psu replacement now after about 5 mins of playing, the display starts to shut down, like the graphics card is going bad. If I push it another minute or 2 the whole computer shuts down and reboots. Due to a real limited budget and the fact that it’s kind of hard to find cheap last gen replacement parts I don’t want to start swapping stuff out. I could pull a small 300 watt psu for a crappy old dell laying around once I find some time. Figured maybe posting up here would offer some sort of ideas. Supposedly the psu was known to be good and working.
Thanks in advance for the help