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BenBen90 said:
The GFX card doesnt pass 75C. It crashes with all high quality games like ac4, metro 'll, planetary annihilation, etc. I doubt reinstalling windows agagain will fix anything, it's not windows because games work with hd 7750. Could it be a faulty psu?
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Yes it could be that the PSU is not up to running the higher spec GFX card. Could be a faulty Gfx card or you could of cooked the CPU. Only real way of telling is putting in a different part and testing. Hopefully you have a friend with compatible parts to help you out.
 
I don't think it is a faulty GFX card or a cooked CPU because they work really well when doing other things besides gaming. My guess is the PSU because some guy on another forum told me that Corsair, especially the CX series has really bad capacitors that don't like heat.

I don't overclock and I made sure nothing is overclocked. but I did find that my CPU frequency was around 3.7ghz but I'm pretty sure that's the turbo from the I5-3570K. I have no idea what my ram is because it's just stock but I do know they are DDR3.
 
BenBen90 said:
I don't think it is a faulty GFX card or a cooked CPU because they work really well when doing other things besides gaming. My guess is the PSU because some guy on another forum told me that Corsair, especially the CX series has really bad capacitors that don't like heat.

I don't overclock and I made sure nothing is overclocked. but I did find that my CPU frequency was around 3.7ghz but I'm pretty sure that's the turbo from the I5-3570K. I have no idea what my ram is because it's just stock but I do know they are DDR3.
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Your best option is to test with a friends PC parts. I'm lucky I have that option. You could just keep buying expensive PC parts like the heatsink fan you have already bought. PSU is a likely candidate for being faulty...but it's by no means the only one.

Good luck with it.
 
your right at the minimum requirements.

I would try to go for a quality 650 or 700watt.

Anything larger would be a waste of $$$.
 
So what should I exchange it for??

Update: I just played Assassins Creed 4 and Battlefield 4 on medium settings and no crash but when I cranked up the settings to Max...what do you know a reboot.
(I dont know if this will help towards the solution of the problem but you know..)
 
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I've had similar problems, and I've narrowed it down to being my motherboard. I've looked around, and other people have similar issues with Gigabyte boards. I've troubleshot everything else, from hardware, to software, and this is all I can discern.

So the PSU is likely your culprit, but I won't say it's definite.
 
THRiLL KiLL said:
your right at the minimum requirements.

I would try to go for a quality 650 or 700watt.

Anything larger would be a waste of $$$.
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I think 700 would be a waste for one card. Nvidia recommends a 500 or better, and THAT number is only so high to cover people who buy cheap PSUs.

Now we can't say there isn't a problem with your power supply BenBen90, but if that unit is in good condition, the unit you have chosen should be fine as far as specs go.

In response to a replay earlier, have you done a fresh Windows install since you changed cards?
 
Is it necessary to do a fresh install because I have the OS on the same HDD as everything else, and I dont want to wipe all of my harddrive.
 
It can't hurt to try it first without doing a clean install of the OS, but you'll probably run into small issues in the future (if nothing major at first).
 
Did you do the CCcleaner on AMD software and uninstall the Nvidia drivers use CCcleaner on Nvidia then reinstall the nvidia driver like I said earlier?
 
Before spending money on a new power supply, you can attempt to verify your power supply. Most motherboards these days have a utility to report the power supply voltages. Speedfan will do so as well. If they report you are getting 10 volts on your 12v connector (for example), you have your problem. Check it both when idle and under load.
 
BenBen90 said:
So what should I exchange it for??

Update: I just played Assassins Creed 4 and Battlefield 4 on medium settings and no crash but when I cranked up the settings to Max...what do you know a reboot.
(I dont know if this will help towards the solution of the problem but you know..)
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Can you confirm that your pc 'crashes' are reboots? Or does it sometimes crash to the windows desktop?
 
I have whocrashed and it does not help at all and also they are reboots and ONLY reboots no crashing to windows or anything of that sort.
 
BenBen90 said:
I have whocrashed and it does not help at all and also they are reboots and ONLY reboots no crashing to windows or anything of that sort.
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OK, good to know the details here.

Then, despite yr voltages seem OK, it does seem you need a better PSU. I get U R waiting for a specific recommendation.
 
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