As the title says, I have a new GPU, and well, when I play a game, it looks good, plays well...then shuts down. And I can turn it back on right after.
That is what has me wondering what is going on. Is it really overheating? My case gets warm to the touch, not hot, and I can turn it right back on.
I have dealt with overheating once with my previous gpu, the case was hot to the touch where if I held my hand there it'd begin to hurt, and it took around 20 minutes to cool down.
Now what I think it is, and would wonder if it even could be, is the PSU. It is a 550w PSU. My Graphics card recommends at least 500w, I imagine it means for just the card. So it shuts down when I play games, and that is when it needs to draw more power, right? Thus it shuts down because it is hogging all the power from everything else. Of course I could be wrong and my computer could be really fucked, but I'd like to hope it is just this PSU, since I already ordered a new, more powerful one.
The card, if it matters, is a Sapphire R9 270x.
it's new so clearly dust isn't the issue here, but try and clean it if it's bad enough
run this too maybe [url]http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/fur/[/url]
to make sure 100% it's the gpu.
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;46801153]What's the power supply model?
Check temps with HWmonitor when in game. Also clean your case and make sure the fans are working.[/QUOTE]
I can't say what the type of PSU it is right off hand, I never remembered the model number, and lost the packaging at least a year ago. If there's a way to get it from like a dxdiag type deal, I can do that real quick.
The temps are around 28-30c for my Motherboard and Harddrive in game, and out.
GPU goes up to around 48c when in game. Around 28 or 30 out of game.
I tried this with 7 Days to Die, so not the most demanding game, but it was one that would eventually cause a shut down. The furmark result seems to be a better indication.
My CPU is for some reason coming off at 206c in both HWmonitor and Speccy.
Could this be a problem? It's obviously not even close to that, but two programs seem to think it is.
[QUOTE=J!NX;46801159]it's new so clearly dust isn't the issue here, but try and clean it if it's bad enough
run this too maybe [url]http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/fur/[/url]
to make sure 100% it's the gpu.[/QUOTE]
I cleaned the fans and case when I was upgrading
And the benchmark results are:
[t]http://i.cubeupload.com/QubnoT.png[/t]
61c is pretty good, at least with nvidia cards, so I don't think it's over heating. That test gave me 70c before and I was totally fine, and you did even better than me.
delete your GPU's drivers completely, and drivers settings, and see if you can install older drivers. Could be bad drivers / corrupt drivers
additionally theres this
[url]http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html[/url]
[QUOTE=J!NX;46801292]61c is pretty good, at least with nvidia cards, so I don't think it's over heating. That test gave me 70c before and I was totally fine, and you did even better than me.
delete your GPU's drivers completely, and drivers settings, and see if you can install older drivers. Could be bad drivers / corrupt drivers
additionally theres this
[url]http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html[/url][/QUOTE]
I'll try to see about the older drivers, I had issues with newer ones completely fucking me over once in the past. And if it isn't them, it'll be easy to get back to the current drivers.
And trying that scanner out, it says it should show stuff automatically, but nothing comes up. Unless I am supposed to tell it to find the dump files.
Can you try a new PSU? i had a very cheap, random brand one before, my PC would only shut down during gaming (there was no crash or sign it was turning off, just like an instant power off, I had to power cycle to fix it), then I upgraded to a corsair 600w, and I've had 0 issues since (even upgraded to more powerful stuff)
edit: specifically, I mean my old PSU had plenty of wattage, but it was just terribly cheap and didn't manage to sustain enough power I suppose (or it sucked dick cos it was cheap)
[QUOTE=Smt;46801320]Can you try a new PSU? i had a very cheap, random brand one before, my PC would only shut down during game (there was no crash or sign it was turning off, just like an instant power off, I had to power cycle to fix it), then I upgraded to a corsair 600w, and I've had 0 issues since (even upgraded to more powerful stuff)[/QUOTE]
Okay that sounds downright to the dot what my issue is.
I have a new PSU on the way, I can't remember the brand at the moment as my dad placed th eorder on his amazon account, which I can't access right now to check, but it'll have more power than my current one does at 750w, and it wasn't a cheap offbrand one for like 30 bucks I know that much. It was well received by the Amazon reviews, not the best idea to get how well something works I know, but it seems to be a decent way to tell at least.
If it was decent it might not be the issue, mine was literally £10/$20, it had no visible brand on it, it was just terrible, worked fine until gaming but as soon as I put any stress on my system it'd just totally kill its self, havent had a single issue with my new psu since then though
[QUOTE=Smt;46801348]If it was decent it might not be the issue, mine was literally £10/$20, it had no visible brand on it, it was just terrible, worked fine until gaming but as soon as I put any stress on my system it'd just totally kill its self, havent had a single issue with my new psu since then though[/QUOTE]
Well okay mine isn't that bad of a PSU, but it still is underpowered I am pretty sure. As soon as the new GPU went in, these issues started happening while gaming.
According to the documentation of the new GPU it says it needs 500w minimum for just the card. I figure that, with the CPU, Mobo, Disc drive a hard drive and 6 usb ports to power, it is demanding too much when gaming, but not while doing simple tasks.
500W is not just for the card, they assume a standard variety of specs for the rest of your components. I have a 660W, high quality PSU and it runs just fine. What you need is a better quality PSU, not a higher powered one.
First, check your power connectors. Make sure ALL the power pins are in. Reseat them just to be sure.
Second, maybe it is your power supply being overloaded. It being a 500W I wouldn't doubt this. But use the PSU Calculator ([url]http://www.extreme.outervision.com/psucalculatorlite.jsp[/url]) to calculate what sort of wattage you should be getting.
Third, your drivers are heavily outdated. The current driver set is 14.12 (Dec 2014), you have 13.11 (Nov 2013). Give those an update right away.
But obviously something is holding back the system.
Me using a HD7 series card, off a Phenom II X4 package and I'm getting a much higher score off you:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/Che66hg.png[/img]
[QUOTE=Smt;46801348]If it was decent it might not be the issue, mine was literally £10/$20, it had no visible brand on it, it was just terrible, worked fine until gaming but as soon as I put any stress on my system it'd just totally kill its self, havent had a single issue with my new psu since then though[/QUOTE]
When I built my mom's new PC I thought her old one would suffice when she said it was 550W. Turns out it was a crappy generic one. PC worked perfectly until I installed the GPU drivers then it would shut down immediately on startup. Decided to try my own PSU (750W) and it worked perfectly. I went out and bought her a generic 750W (I wanted to get a decent one but it was her money and her budget I was spending) it's been running fine since.
Well got the new PSU, and haven't yet had time to try Skyrim to see if it eventually shuts down, but it's already running better than before so that's a good sign. Furmark is returning better results, of course this is withotu AA to the max, so that helps too.
[img]http://i.cubeupload.com/GRYAnK.png[/img]
I'll mark as solved if Skyrim goes smoothly, should be able to test soon. Still, got some good tools and some more information, so thanks everyone for that info.
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