Pc turns off while gaming Help?!

[bryanbar]

Hello I've recently built my first pc and it was working great for about a month when all of sudden it started restarting every time I play any game. Help me !

 

Here are my specs:

CPU -AMD Athlon X4 760k Quad core processor 3.80 Ghz
Ram- crucial ballistic 8gb 
OS -Windows 8.1 
GPU-EVGA Geforce 660 SC edition
Motherboard -MSI A78M-E35 
Power supply- corsair cx430

 

Now happens with all games and with any program does benchmarks.

No overclocking 

[Thebman712]

we may need more info like what games and you may need to check your configuration in your bios

[Benjamin G]

My first thought would be GPU or PSU, but we need some more info to narrow it down.

[Jvagle875]

Is anything overclocked? 

[tryphaa]

It may be a psu failing to provide power, or many other things. We need more details.

[bryanbar]

I was able to play a couple a games for like titanfall , arkham city and Guild wars 2 but it randomly started happening during a cutscene in crysis 3. I believe nothing  is being overclocked and I dont know how to check the bios lol

[MrYuriy]

Yeah, details would help. Also, answers to a few more questions:

 

1) Did you overclock?

2) Have you checked your temperatures?

3) Have you done any Burn-In or Stress Testing to your PC?

4) Any particular games, or all of them?

5) Only games..? No other CPU/GPU-Intensive software do this?

[bdsansone]

Are you using the stock heat sink that came with your CPU? Stock thermal paste?

 

Computer might be overheating while you are playing games.

 

I had a friend who had the same problem when he was playing League of Legends and all he did was buy a new heat sink for his newly built computer then put Arctic Silver paste on and his CPU didn't overheat anymore and it didn't crash.

 

But check and see what other people say!

[cameron532]

Check the inside of your case for dust, especially in the CPU fan. Dust usually causes a computer to overheat and turn off to protect the CPU from being damaged.

[A_Prime]

Sounds like something is overheating, and the most likely cause of overheating is dust build up, open the case up and give it a good clean with compressed air

[BasedGod]

Might want to check if all your cables are correctly plugged in, and not any are lose., Like the big 24 pin, the 8 pin CPU power, or the GPU power cable. If that doesn't help after you replug all those, your cpu might be overheating

[Prokart2000]

Yeah, details would help. Also, answers to a few more questions:

 

1) Did you overclock?

2) Have you checked your temperatures?

3) Have you done any Burn-In or Stress Testing to your PC?

4) Any particular games, or all of them?

5) Only games..? No other CPU/GPU-Intensive software do this?

tell us this

[MrTomnus]

Welcome to the forum!

 

I had a problem like this a while ago. When I was playing games my computer would just turn off then restart. No blue screen, no errors. It turned out it was that graphics driver. A few things you could do:

 

-To check it's not a problem with overheating, use GPUTemp or something similar to monitor your temperatures (I put them in the notification tray). Play the game in windowed mode so you can look easily, to get an idea of the temperatures you're running at normally in-game. Your CPU already looks a bit warm for idle temps in your screenshot...

-Make sure there's no dust in your PC. Use a can of compressed air (NOT a vacuum cleaner) to get rid of any dust built up in there!

-If you have a multimeter of any kind you could try monitoring your power draw. With a PSU with a wattage that low, and a power hungry CPU, you might be at risk of drawing too much power from the wall, which would cause a shutdown, especially in intense situations like a benchmark (which are not representative of real world loads, remember). If you have another PSU lying around, swap it out and see if the problem still happens.

-Reinstall your graphics card drivers. This might also fix the problem. Use a program like DriverSweeper to uninstall them.

 

If you have been getting BSODs, a program called WhoCrashed can tell you what caused the blue screen.

 

Hope this helps!