New video card, computer dies when game starts.

[CuriousMike]

Bought my son an R9 270 for xmas and installed it in his system.
His system is unknown mobo with an AMD 5800k and 8GB of ram.
The powersupply is a 300W Enermax.

His previous video card was a 650ti.

I uninstalled his old video card thru windows 10 (deleted drivers), installed new card, downloaded amd drivers and we were looking good.

Games launch - BlackOps 3 was first up. As soon as you get past a menu into gameplay, the machine shuts down.

CSGO loaded and would play with low settings and vsync on .. he tried against bots for about 5 minutes. He turned vsync OFF and the machine shut down.

This smells like the powersupply is letting us down - does that sound right?

 

[sandorski]

I suspect so.

 

[Ketchup]

AMD video cards take a lot more power than Nvidia cards.

Get a good quality power supply of at least 400 watts and you should be good.

 

[CuriousMike]

Can't run to 7-11 on xmas day and buy a computer power supply...

 

[Zodiark1593]

Next year's present, a new PSU.

 

[CuriousMike]

Next year's present, a new PSU.

LOL -- yeah, I think this one's gotta be "on the house" - Fry's opens at 8 a.m. tomorrow... or so i've been told...

 

[CuriousMike]

Update: 500 watts of Corsair power has the boys machine singing.

 

[Ketchup]

Awesome. Thanks for the update!