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GPU overheating and shutting down

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July 16, 2013 4:59:54 AM

My GPU just hit over 101 celsius and the screen went blank.

It happened 3 times now while I was playing League of Legends. I don't get why it overheats since it should easily be able to run this game.
It's a Zodiac Geforce 460 GTX

I already used air spray to clean all the dust in the PC and even took the GPU out to completely get rid of all dust on it.

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July 16, 2013 5:13:59 AM

Change thermal paste on the gpu, if you dont know how, give it to someone( or a store) that knows how.
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July 16, 2013 5:47:01 AM

Is anything else running in the background? Your GPU shouldn't get anywhere near 100 C in LOL.

+ 1 to Daffy above, but I'd also run MSI afterburnewr to monitor temps and fans better.
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July 16, 2013 5:53:43 AM

I downloaded afterburner and the fans are on auto. The GPU is 3 years old so I guess it makes sense that it would need new thermal paste?

This never happened before and only started recently. I guess it's because it's summer and it's really hot in my room.

I've never changed thermal paste but it doesn't look too difficult (based on this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqJTWlXhHdU) so I'd rather try. Should I get Arctic Silver 5? I see people mention it a lot on Google.
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July 16, 2013 5:56:24 AM

nyxanna said:
I downloaded afterburner and the fans are on auto. The GPU is 3 years old so I guess it makes sense that it would need new thermal paste?

This never happened before and only started recently. I guess it's because it's summer and it's really hot in my room.

I've never changed thermal paste but it doesn't look too difficult (based on this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqJTWlXhHdU) so I'd rather try. Should I get Arctic Silver 5? I see people mention it a lot on Google.

Try creating a custom fan profile and incrase fan speed, and yea sure arctic silver is fine
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July 16, 2013 6:04:49 AM

When was the last time you checked for dust and cleaned your CPU and GPU heatsinks?
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July 16, 2013 6:10:37 AM

3 days ago.
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