System Restarsts itself during Hawken and World of Tanks

rottie7

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Hi,
Don't know what to do anymore. Here is my setup:

Intel Core i7-2600K 3.4Ghz Unlocked LGA1155 CPU

EVGA GeForce GTX760 FTW with ACX Cooler 4GB GDDR5 256Bit

Patriot Sector 7 12GB DDR3 (3x4GB) PC12800 1600MHz

ASUS P8P67 Pro REV 3 Intel P67 LGA1155 Motherboard

Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO

Diablotek DA Series 600w ATX Power Supply

My computer runs perfectly until it doesn't. Once I've been gaming on world of tanks for about two hours or hawken for about 20 minutes my pc does one of two things. Either it simply reboots, or worse, it gives me the blue screen of death (dropping video output signal) and the cpu fan starts spinning very fast and makes a loud wind sound until I pull the plug. It is very warm sometimes when this happens. Other times it happens before it's very warm. The air leaving the case is warm I mean. Once it happens one time it will happen sooner and sober until I shutdown and leave it to chill out for a few hours

I'm wondering if my Processor is dying or my psu is not able to handle the pressure.

Thanks in advance.
 

DonnyTechMaster

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Dec 29, 2013
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Well, one thing you may want to look at is that only 2 of your 3 sticks of ram are running in dual channel mode. It may actually be better for you to remove one of the sticks. You will have to match the colors of the slots when you remove the stick of ram (in other words put the remaining two sticks in the two blue slots).

I'm not entirely sure that this is the issue, but it is worth a shot. However it may just be an issue of heat in which case reapplying thermal paste onto your CPU could solve the issue, as well as cleaning out the dust with compressed air.