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New PC owner needs help

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colt6920

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I've been interested in a gaming pc so I traded for one off of craigslist. It was working at his house but would not turn on when I got it home. I dropped it off at a computer shop and they replaced the psu. Now it boots up and runs fine until I try to play a game. It powers down and restarts if I run Skyrim or Civ 5 at 1920x1080 but not at 1366x768. Batman AA crashes regardless. I tried updating the gpu drivers and it didn't change. I also tried to run 3dmark and it restarted. It sits at the BIOS screen for about a minute after restarting. I'm not sure if that's normal or not. I took it back to the shop and they said I was running too high a resolution. My monitor is 1080p. I'm not experienced with pcs and any help you guys can give would be deeply appreciated.
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD3H(I think?)
CPU: Intel I5 3570k
GPU: EVGA GTX 760
PSU: Fatal1ty 750w replaced by Inland 650w
RAM: 8GB I don't know what brand
 
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Thanks for the help. I'll give that power supply a try. Last time it cost me $170 to get it replaced so I'd like to try it myself this time. Do I have to disassemble the entire pc to replace it?
 
colt6920 said:
Thanks for the help. I'll give that power supply a try. Last time it cost me $170 to get it replaced so I'd like to try it myself this time. Do I have to disassemble the entire pc to replace it?
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Depends on the case, but I would say about 90% of the time that would not be necessary.
 
They charged you $170 to replace your decent PSU with a piece of $30 (if that) garbage? Criminals. Never do business with them again. Really, you can do most anything yourself at home. There is a youtube tutorial for everything.
 
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