Hi, I just recently swaped just about everything in my computer, sept the power supply, HDD, and the Optical Drive.

I've replaced the motherboard (GiGabyte Z68xp-UD3p)

the RAM (Gskill Sniper series 2-4 gig DDR3 2133) a total of 8 gigs of RAM

The GPU (EVGA 560 ti (Fermi)

The Processor (sandy bridge I7 3.4ghz Quad core)

A Zalman Heat sink and Fan

And upgrade from windows xp home to Windows 7 Pro 64 bit

My tower has 5 Fans 4 120mm and one 240mm

My temps on load are around 39 highest when playing games for as mush as I can that is the processors temp though, the case reading is a bit lower, around 35sh I'm sure this reseting is not an overheating issue.



Anyways to the problem, I'm about to go buy a psu from best buy just to test the old PSU which is a roswell 750w Extreme edition PSU

Any advice as to why my computer is just restarting (turning all power down, and then starting back up again whilst giving me the windows did not shut down successful message) whenever I play oblivion, or skyrim?

I assume this will happen with any game I play

I'd have thought that the PSU wouldn't even power up if it was too weak. I'd assume 750W is more than enough to power most other components.

I recently did exactly the same thing, installing all new components, bar the PSU/HDD. My PSU is like, 5 years old if not more, and is powering an equally powerful computer as yours, at only 450W.

I don't claim to be an expert, but I'd look at your GPU before PSU judging by the issue.

well, I maybe, I can pop in my old GPU and check but usually a bad gpu would give you a BSOD or just flicker the display rather than powering doen the unit but maybe

Worth a try I guess, but like I said I'm no expert. That's just where I would start.

How does your PC cope with other tasks? Music/VIdeos?

Sounds like RAM to me. I had a stick of RAM restart my computer the same way. Whenever my Memory usage reached about 1.2gb (was on windows XP) it would do the same thing. removing the stick fixed the issue.

I would suggest removing one stick (I play Skyrim on Win7 x64 with 4gb, so it'l be fine) and seeing if it still resets. if it does, add the stick you removed, and remove the other one. If it still crashes I would try to see if you could borrow (or just buy) some lower clocked RAM.

Also, you should try the http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1348566-the-community-tech-thread-no-112/ if none of this works. Thats where all the smart people hang out