PC shuts down gaming

[Yasin40]

Hi guys.

So a while back I upgraded from my dying, now dead GTX580 to a 7970 because the PC kept turning itself off during GTA 5 and some other games.

The problem was identified by a PC shop to be my VS650 PSU, which I then upgraded to a TX650M, but the problem still persists. My PC still randomly shuts off with no warning and it's driving me crazy.

Could it be my 7970 this time? Please help.

[corrado33]

Shuts off with no blue screen?

 

Either not enough power or overheating. Is anything overclocked?

[Vasllo]

Can it be? Yes. It's very unlikely it's the PSU, but it might be defective. Also, you might have a CPU/MOBO issue too.

 

CPU/MOBO > GPU > PSU are my guesses.

[Yasin40]

I'm pretty sure I have enough power. My PSU is a new 650W 80 plus gold unit from Corsair and according to benchmarks a system with a very power hungry chip like an old i7 extreme edition and a GHZ edition 7970 shouldn't be consuming more than about 500W under full synthetic load.

Also, my Ryzen 5 1600 is very mildly overclocked to 3.5GHZ on a B350 Asus prime board.

Honestly I don't know what could be the cause of my issue

[Yasin40]

2 minutes ago, Vasllo said:

Can it be? Yes. It's very unlikely it's the PSU, but it might be defective. Also, you might have a CPU/MOBO issue too.

 

CPU/MOBO > GPU > PSU are my guesses.

I really really hope it's not my motherboard or CPU since not even the local PC shops have Ryzen systems to test with so that would super suck

[Vasllo]

As I said, your PSU is great, but there is a very unlikely chance it's defective, you should test it. Your MOBO could be defective too, but also unlikely now that I know which one it is. Knowing your hardware, I would guess it's the GPU's fault.