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I refreshed my pc about a month ago with a 5600x and a new cooler nzxt kraken x63. a day ago When playing Beyond the wire it restarted my pc and did it on ark as well. I checked my thermals and they were normal, I even replicated the crash and did not see any large jumps in temp it stays in a good range under 70c. I used software to check my RAM and it was all good there no issues reported. It left me with 2 options: PSU or software related. I hunted down fixes for software and it didn't work and just decided to do a clean windows install to completely rule out any software issues and it seemed to work. Today around the same time boom it restarts again so it isn't software related. I assume it is the psu its a 750 watt evga 80+ gold semi modular and I got it six years ago. I think maybe with the age and the big jump in power consumption is causing it to fail. I also noticed a sound coming from my pc only when I put it under pressure it never made and I believe it is coming from the power supply but I am not too sure. Anyone care to input any other potential culprits?

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usually this happens because of not enough wattage. you have enough. How long is the warranty on it? run chkdsk or something (idk how ul have to google it ;-;) and make sure its not a drive issue

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I ran chkdsk on all my drives and no issue however my keyboard was being strange after I restarted and I read somewhere that external devices can cause this as well I will get my hands on a keyboard and see if things change in the meantime I do have a bios update and I will also attempt rollbacks on updates.

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