- Jan 19, 2014
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I believe my CPU has been acting up recently. The other night I was playing a game when the PC just shut off as if it had been unplugged. It didn't reboot or anything, it was just like the shut down button had been clicked.
I went into the BIOS and checked my temps and the CPU temperature was really high at 80 C. I opened up the case, cleaned everything, removed the thermal paste, applied some more, and reseated the stock heat sink that came with the CPU. This helped things a bit but the temperatures are still quite high. When idle it hovers between 30-50 C but once I start to run anything, even a few Chrome tabs it can jump up to 50-70 C.
Even though I put this PC together myself early last year, I'm still relatively clueless when it comes to these things. I probably wouldn't have been able to do it if I didn't have contact with someone who knew what they were doing by phone or text the whole time. I figured I'd post here to hopefully seek out some advice.
Does this seem to be a CPU issue or could it be something else affecting things? I wanted to get some opinions before I end up spending any money on things that I might not need.
If I left out any information or this is in the wrong place, please forgive me. Let me know and I'll try to add any missing information and such.
I believe my CPU has been acting up recently. The other night I was playing a game when the PC just shut off as if it had been unplugged. It didn't reboot or anything, it was just like the shut down button had been clicked.
I went into the BIOS and checked my temps and the CPU temperature was really high at 80 C. I opened up the case, cleaned everything, removed the thermal paste, applied some more, and reseated the stock heat sink that came with the CPU. This helped things a bit but the temperatures are still quite high. When idle it hovers between 30-50 C but once I start to run anything, even a few Chrome tabs it can jump up to 50-70 C.
Even though I put this PC together myself early last year, I'm still relatively clueless when it comes to these things. I probably wouldn't have been able to do it if I didn't have contact with someone who knew what they were doing by phone or text the whole time. I figured I'd post here to hopefully seek out some advice.
Does this seem to be a CPU issue or could it be something else affecting things? I wanted to get some opinions before I end up spending any money on things that I might not need.
If I left out any information or this is in the wrong place, please forgive me. Let me know and I'll try to add any missing information and such.
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