PC restart while playing games

Discussion in 'General Hardware' started by hotice87, Feb 6, 2010.

  1. hotice87

    hotice87 Geek Trainee

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    hi

    i bought my new pc about a month ago ..
    i got
    i7 920
    MB Asus P6T
    Corsair Ram 3GB @1333
    PSU Silver stone 650w
    GPU EVGA 275GTX Superclock

    i am having a problem that my pc restart while playing games ...i check everything but dont understand what is the problem .. :(
    nothing is overheating everything is working on default clocks ..nothing is overclocked .....
    first my brother was playing Mass Effect 1 when thins start happening ....i was thinking something was overheating i increased GPU Fan speed then it was fine ..
    but next day i was playing Age of Empires 3 again my pc restart ...then i do some cable management then everything was fine ...
    now it is started again after few days ...
    i was playing crysis first it was fine for about 3 hours then a restart ..i started crysis again but this time pc restart after 15-20 mints ....
    pc is restarting after 15-20 mints while playing games....
    GPU max 66c @80% fan speed
    CPU max 78c and AVG is 70c for all cores
     
  2. valamar

    valamar Geek Trainee

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    thats pretty warm for the CPU. mine gets to about 55c while gaming, never more than 60.
     
  3. BoBBYI986

    BoBBYI986 Geek

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    power supply unit will most likely be the issue. I've had this problem myself pc would restart after 25mins either a overheating psu or gpu using to much power.
     

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