Cant really recommend a PSU without knowing make/model, it might be one of those proprietary PSU's, I know some Dell's have their own.
I have an Acer Aspire X3950, I don't know if that helps?
yeah but is also gaming with a HTPC Video card a Geforce 315 is not even close to a 8800GTS released 5 year ago ain't it somethign like Geforce 210 ? or it more like a Gefroce 220 ? From what i know OEM Series 300 where exactly the same as Series 200 Expect A little Higher Clock (20-30mhz)
So Some game might have like 5-10FPS when he crash having too low FPS can cause instability if it do it for all game it can also be Driver's if you get Blue Screen of death then you can read if it was Caused by Driver Malfunction
you can check ur temp with PC wizard / Hardware monitor / GPU-Z (Sensor TAB) / MSI Afterbrurner But i think unless ur gpu is Idling at 75C and full Load 90C it unlikely to be overheating unless there artifacting (Weird pixel / Weird Texture / System Crash)
The onboard AMD ATI HD4200 from the Onboard 785 of my nephew would Crash in various game till i put a Video card about 2 month after no crash after that same power supply check ur FPS with Fraps if you try putting game at medium 1280x1024 when the gpu can only handle 1024x780 All Low it could explain crash
But Lot of Factory Manifacturer PSU Found inside Even Alienware Desktop have like a Life Expetency of 2-3 Year so it can be also that or Ram. Check Memtest
I found about 28 time faulty DDR2 / DDR3 Inside Factory Build Machine within 1 Year of Purchase But some of them didn't just want to take the ram & test it and give you new ram .... they ad to ship the WHOLE PC FOR GETting some 40$USD RAM FIXED that do Zero Error In Memtest 86+ even after 6-8 pass which is about 5 hour
you can run BlueScrewnviewer to see ur recent BSOD and find result with 0X00000116/124 for example
but if you get no detailed BSOD report that tell it Driver / IF Gpu temprature is low Within crash / IF memtest86 show no anomly then it can be ur power supply but if the problem is not persitent IE : happening every few hour then it likely a GPU / RAM ISSUE or Driver issue
marcthpro
Ok, so I checked my temperature of my GPU, and it was at 62 C when I was not gaming. Then I fired up a game, and in 5 minutes it rose to 91C and then my computer crashed. Is my GPU overheating? Also I did the BlueScreenViewer, and all the recent faults were 0X0000116 or 124. Maybe it's not my PSU after all? Thanks for all the help again!
If ur confident that ur PSU is at fault then changing it is easy.
Just look at all the wires where they r going, take pictures if it helps u remembering. remove all wires and srew out the old psu. put in a new one and reattach all wires.. unless u do it urself ull never learn hoe to replace simple things...
u shud give it a shot,,but i think ur pc might be in warranty.. If its in warranty then dont open the case cuz u might void the warranty,, take it to the manufacturer then.
harooon
Thanks for the advice, I should find out if I still have warranty.
Have you checked your gpu temps by the way? Unless you have a mini form factor case all ATX psu fit. What are your computer specs anyway? so we can give the best option for your needs. 04dcarraher
I have Windows 7 CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU 550 @ 3.20GHz GPU: GeForce 315 No I haven't really checked exact temperature, but the case isn't warm or something. I don't know if that indicates anything? How can I check my GPU temperature? Thanks for the quick replies by the way.
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