Computer Crashing During Gaming

[bman7842]

My computer is sorta a hand me down, I have been wanting to update the parts but between school and other more essentials expenses I have been unable to purchase new parts. I have had the computer for about 1 month now and I have been continuing to have this problem. Recently I have been playing rocket league and after a certain point into the game my computer randomly just completely turns off, no messages or anything, just goes black.

 

My PC specs are,

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 6000+ 3.0GHz (Came from previous owner)

Motherboard (Came from previous owner)

4 GB ram (Came from previous owner, sorry I don't know the brand)

400 Watt Power supply (Previous owner, don't know brand)

GTX 750 Ti (Recently purchased, yes I know the processor is slowing this thing down but the idea is for me to have it when I upgrade to bigger better things)

 

My OS is Windows 10 (Valid license, not pirated)

My Rocket League is set to max settings and plays at a perfect 50 fps (until it crashes of course)

 

 

I really would like to know what is causing this, is it the board, the powersupply, graphics, etc.? Any help would be great. It does this on almost all games I play, Cities skylines did it for me, Sid Meier's Civilization 5 did it (after a long time of playing), all games appear to do it after a certain amount of time depending on how intense they are. Doing day to day tasks like opening Word documents and having 10 tabs open in firefox never cause it to crash so it must only happen with intense usage. Any suggestions other than get a better system would be great, however, if you do have suggestions on budget friendly motherboards and processors for my build I would gladly appreciate it.

[bman7842]

Have you checked your temperatures during gaming?

I'll start checking them

[manikyath]

monitor temps for a while, i'm pretty sure this is a thermal issue.

 

other than that, check for dust, that may be a big part of your issue.

[Guest]

I second that, sounds thermal. Clean out dust, consider re applying thermal paste if you're comfortable doing that

[bman7842]

I second that, sounds thermal. Clean out dust, consider re applying thermal paste if you're comfortable doing that

Which thermal, my CPU or GPU?

 

Have you checked your temperatures during gaming?

My GPU temperature was at 57 degrees celsius when it crashed (at least from what I could tell) and its fan speed was at 46% *according to EVGA OC Scanner X*

[Guest]

Which thermal, my CPU or GPU

Could be either

[bman7842]

Could be either

Is there anyway to monitor my CPU temps? I can monitor my GPU (temps shown above) but not my CPU

[Guest]

Is there anyway to monitor my CPU temps? I can monitor my GPU (temps shown above) but not my CPU

some people don't care for it but hwmonitor seems to work pretty well for cpu temps for me

[bman7842]

I've used Speccy and Speedfan myself. Sometimes monitoring softwares can show different temperatures, but testing two different ones should be enough.

Okay here are the results right before it crashed:

 

CPU: 64

Motherboard: 66

GPU: 57

 

All temperatures are based in celsius

[bman7842]

Ok, temperatures are just fine. Then you just have to check your power supply. If it's not from a reputable brand it could easily cause these kinds of problems. Especially if the computer is working fine at light workloads. Gaming usually stresses the PSU more and causes poor quality ones to shut down the computer. If it's from a reputable brand and a quality model, it could just be too old.

 

If you can't read the label then you need to remove the screws that are holding the PSU on the case and flip it.

There is no branding at all on the power supply, it probably is a cheap one. I'd assume this is the problem.

[bman7842]

There is no branding at all on the power supply, it probably is a cheap one. I'd assume this is the problem.

Do you have any suggestions on good 400-500 watt power supplys? (At a reasonable price)

[dragoon20005]

Do you have any suggestions on good 400-500 watt power supplys? (At a reasonable price)

look at the EVGA 500B 

[bman7842]

look at the EVGA 500B 

Do you think I really need a 500W power supply though?

[dragoon20005]

Do you think I really need a 500W power supply though?

might be a bit too much but at least the PSU is reliable

[bman7842]

might be a bit too much but at least the PSU is reliable

Good point, thanks for the suggestion.

 

If anyone else has some good suggestions on power supplies I would love to hear them.

[bman7842]

might be a bit too much but at least the PSU is reliable

Hey, is this a good power supply: http://www.ebay.com/itm/CORSAIR-CX-series-CX500-500W-ATX12V-v2-3-80-PLUS-BRONZE-Certified-Active-PFC-Pow-/381060982864?hash=item58b9012850

 

Also, will this power supply still work with all components? I know it usually doesn't make much of a difference but my components are older so will the ways of supplying power to the board etc. still be compatible with this power supply?

[dragoon20005]

Hey, is this a good power supply: http://www.ebay.com/itm/CORSAIR-CX-series-CX500-500W-ATX12V-v2-3-80-PLUS-BRONZE-Certified-Active-PFC-Pow-/381060982864?hash=item58b9012850

 

Also, will this power supply still work with all components? I know it usually doesn't make much of a difference but my components are older so will the ways of supplying power to the board etc. still be compatible with this power supply?

refurbished PSU are not a good idea too

 

also that is just ok series of PSU

[bman7842]

I think this is a pretty good list of all the good and bad brands:

 

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-2547993/psu-tier-list.html

 

 

Newer PSU's will work with older hardware but not vice versa. Newer PSU's have an 8 pin CPU power connector that can be split in to two to use with older motherboards that only require a 4 pin one.

 

You need to realize that a power supply is the most important part of a computer and you should never try to save money when buying them. If a bad quality PSU fails it could potentially damage all the other components in your system. That list I posted gives you a lot of information about what brands you should definitely avoid and which ones are safe to use.

Okay, I'll deffinatly have to save up for one then. I'm pretty low on money now but if you can find a good 400-500Watt power supply for $40-50 please tell me!

[bman7842]

While you are saving money, do you have a friend or an acquaintance that could lend you a power supply, so you can test if that is really the issue with your computer?

 

It's always best to make sure.

No, I don't really know anyone into computers.