PC restarts while gaming

[Mantis000]

i5 6600k 3.5ghz

Radeon R9 390

32gb ram

1000w PSU

MSI z170a gaming M3 mobo

Windows 10

 

Yes, it's old. I've been looking into upgrades, but I'm not sure what I'm doing. 

 

The issues I'm having are the restarts when gaming (PUBG, DayZ, Diablo 4) and a strange noise that sounds kind of like the little pop when you plug the power cord into the PC. The noise is more frequent when gaming, though I don't know where it's coming from. All my temps are good and the games I'm playing run smooth enough.

 

I thought I fixed the issue when I pulled the GPU out and re-set it. But a few weeks later and the problem has started up again. 

 

Any thoughts?

 

EDIT: Swapped out for my old 600w PSU and ran some GPU stress tests. No noise, and no restarts. I'll test it some more, but it's looking good so far.

[SuperMoonie]

The pop you hear is the PSU. Seems to be broken. The over voltage protection triggers falsely.

 

[Mantis000]

1 minute ago, SuperMoonie said:

The pop you hear is the PSU. Seems to be broken. The over voltage protection triggers falsely.

 

[Mantis000]

Just now, Mantis000 said:

1 minute ago, SuperMoonie said:

The pop you hear is the PSU. Seems to be broken. The over voltage protection triggers falsely.

 

Can I easily swap it for another PSU? I suppose there are tutorials on YouTube 

[SuperMoonie]

Yes. As long as you have another ATX PSU.

You definitely don't need 1000Watts of power either.

So yeah should be an easy swap.

There are a ton of YT tutorials.

 

Ps. Is it very hot in your house at the moment?

[Mantis000]

1 minute ago, SuperMoonie said:

Yes. As long as you have another ATX PSU.

You definitely don't need 1000Watts of power either.

So yeah should be an easy swap.

There are a ton of YT tutorials.

 

Ps. Is it very hot in your house at the moment?

I'll try to swap it out tonight. I still have the PSU from my old(er) PC. My PC is in my basement, where it's very cool. 

[SuperMoonie]

Ah okay.

Yes try it. Should be fine.

[_Omega_]

While the PSU would be my first guess as well, it might be a different part that triggerst one of the protection circuits... But still i would try another PSU first, but keep in mind that its not 100 % certain that it is the culprit 

[Mantis000]

On 6/18/2023 at 3:48 PM, _Omega_ said:

While the PSU would be my first guess as well, it might be a different part that triggerst one of the protection circuits... But still i would try another PSU first, but keep in mind that its not 100 % certain that it is the culprit 

Swapping the PSU appeared to fix the issue at first, however, today it happened again while gaming. I was thinking of maybe trying an AMD RX580 to see if it's a GPU issue as it's pretty cheap nowadays and I cannot afford a new mobo+CPU+GPU. Would this be the next logical step?