Okay I just purchased all brand new parts for an entire machine build, and I went with a Antec HCG-900 for my PSU. I got my computer all hooked up and ready to go and everything worked fine for the first night. I left it running the first night to download some games from the internet from my steam account. I woke up the next morning and got to playing and boom it powers off. I know that components such as the motherboard have safe shutdown for potentially damaging temperatures so I restarted the machine after having to flip the switch on the PSU. I ran a temp monitor on both CPU and GPU and started playing BFBC2 on max. It shutdown at 50 degrees celcius on my CPU and 83 degrees celcius on my GPU both being well in operating range. Keep in mind I have not overclocked this machine at all. So I broke out my hyren's boot disk and did some testing and the computer loses power within 10 minutes. Now every time game or no game it will lose power after about 10 minutes. Do you agree that it is a semi DOA component from Antec?
Antec PSU DOA? What do you think?
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Just powering off like that is usually a sign of an overloaded PSU, of course if the PSU is faulty or something it very well might not be able to give enough power when the machine is under load. From the model number I can tell that it's one of the "High Current Gamer" series. IMO you would have been better off with a TruePower one. From your last sentence, I can say now that it is definitely a faulty PSU. A 900W PSU should handle your system without incident, but it isn't. And the symptoms you describe are of a faulty or overloaded PSU - so yes, time to get it replaced.
. Looks like I get to deal with an RMA... lucky me.