Hi all,
First off I'll provide a background to my problems. 8 months ago, I upgraded a number of components in my existing HP HPE-575A desktop. Things added in were a Thermaltake 750 power supply, a Radeon R9-290 GPU, and an additional 8 gig of RAM. 1 month ago, I got nothing but black screen upon a startup. Long story short, the GPU crapped itself.
For two weeks now I've been running an ASUS ROG Matrix R9-290X without fault until a few days ago. The problem was first identified during a particular game (World of Tanks), where it would randomly (and without warning) hard restart my computer. Now up until this point the card was working perfectly and had been running the same game without fault. Additionally, as part of the fault finding, I stress tested the graphics card using Furmark. The second that you click on begin test, the computer hard restarts.
This sounds more and more like a power supply issue to me, even though from everything I've read the power supply should be more than enough to run it. I'm thinking more along the lines of the fact it may not be providing clean power or it's out of spec or can't provide the required amps to the card.
System Info:
Intel Core I7 2600
16 gig (4x4) DDR3 1333 RAM
ASUS ROG Matrix R9-290X
Thermaltake 750W Smart Bronze
2 TB Hard Drive (1 x 1.5 / 1 x 0.5)
1 x 120mm intake fan
2 x 80mm cooling fan (1 x CPU, 1 x exhaust)
CoolerMaster Silencio 550 Box
Cheers
First off I'll provide a background to my problems. 8 months ago, I upgraded a number of components in my existing HP HPE-575A desktop. Things added in were a Thermaltake 750 power supply, a Radeon R9-290 GPU, and an additional 8 gig of RAM. 1 month ago, I got nothing but black screen upon a startup. Long story short, the GPU crapped itself.
For two weeks now I've been running an ASUS ROG Matrix R9-290X without fault until a few days ago. The problem was first identified during a particular game (World of Tanks), where it would randomly (and without warning) hard restart my computer. Now up until this point the card was working perfectly and had been running the same game without fault. Additionally, as part of the fault finding, I stress tested the graphics card using Furmark. The second that you click on begin test, the computer hard restarts.
This sounds more and more like a power supply issue to me, even though from everything I've read the power supply should be more than enough to run it. I'm thinking more along the lines of the fact it may not be providing clean power or it's out of spec or can't provide the required amps to the card.
System Info:
Intel Core I7 2600
16 gig (4x4) DDR3 1333 RAM
ASUS ROG Matrix R9-290X
Thermaltake 750W Smart Bronze
2 TB Hard Drive (1 x 1.5 / 1 x 0.5)
1 x 120mm intake fan
2 x 80mm cooling fan (1 x CPU, 1 x exhaust)
CoolerMaster Silencio 550 Box
Cheers