Oh yeah, you can bet on it. :p I wonder how many other people need to be saved from bad PSUs? Kinda surprising something would be marketed as a gaming PSU and then as soon as a marginally demanding game shows up it starts clicking off your computer. >:O
It was an $80 PSU from Best Buy. I’ll check out some of the other brands they have. Still a little kitten ed my little brother traded off the BFG 650W that I had before I bought this computer, would’ve totally used it instead.
Sadly, just looked it up, and I guess bfgtech got liquidated.
Thanks guys, I’ll take the TT PSU back probably Saturday and see if they have anything better. Otherwise I’m totally fine with getting a refund and hitting up an actual computer parts place to get one.
ThermalTake used HEC for the OEM on the TR2 PSU’s, which means they are crap, not that I would call ANY of the TT PSU’s good. They are cheap, and it shows, take back the PSU and get something better, problem or not, it’s always good to have a good quality PSU. I am assuming you bought this local? If so, what brands do they carry and what models?
Yeah I bought it local, I thought Thermaltake was a pretty respected brand?
Probably the Power Supply. 400W is barely sufficient to drive an AMD with such a videocard. If it’s a cheaper brand, it’ll have fluctuations and a little spike could easily drop your pc.
The 400W one was the one that got replaced, the new one is 600W.
Trying out HWMonitor now.
Edit: This was taken seconds after having played GW2 for 5ish minutes.
So this weekend I bought a new EVGA nVidia GeForce GTX 660 GPU and Thermaltake TR2 600W PSU and installed them. I’ve been watching temps, CPU doesn’t go past about 30C and the GPU doesn’t go over 50C. I’m using the power cord that came with the PSU on this next run instead of the old one from the other PSU to make sure that it’s not the cord. That said, this problem doesn’t seem to happen with SWTOR or DCU, and I haven’t tried The Secret World or Borderlands 2 for comparison yet, but I will if this next test is a failure.
The problem: I play GW2 for about 5-10 minutes and then my computer just shuts off with a click. No error message, no sound effect, and I can restart my computer immediately in the event of a shutdown.
That said, I only bought and installed the new components on the 19th so I can totally take that kitten back and get it replaced if it’s one of those. Was using a GTS 450 and a 400W PSU before. Including a DxDiag for completeness:
