So this is a question for the more tech savvy members because to be honest, I am clueless when it comes to the hardware side of things.
So, I've had this PC about a year now and it's been pretty awesome for the most part. The issue I have however, is that now that games are getting prettier and more demanding I would like to make use of both my graphics cards (I have 2 NVidia GTX 570 1024MB cards and the 2nd one has been putting it's energy into either PhysX enabled games or nothing at all.)
Now, whenever I go into the NVidia control panel and change the cards to run in SLi it goes through, no problem. The issues arise a few minutes into a game. Whenever the PC spins up during a game, the slightest thing can reset the PC. I was testing it out recently in Skyrim and it was running beautifully, albeit a little loudly. Then, I hit the quicksave key and dunk the sound sticks and the screen blacks out, the machine spins down and then reboots.
The only time I have witnessed this previously is when I got a new Gfx card for my old PC. Same thing happened. The PC would be running fine, then as soon as I started a game it would freeze and reset. This was much quicker of course, usually only running the game (HL2 in this case) for about 5 seconds. That turned out to be a power supply issue in that it wasn't powerful enough to support the Gfx card.
My current PC however is sporting a 1200W power supply which according the the company that built it is overpowered for the rest of the spec.
Anyone experienced this before or know of any tests I could run?
Thanks, and sorry for the wall of text.