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I have a NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 and when i start up my computer the idle tempature is 60 degrees but when i play a game it goes up to 92 degrees and my computer shuts down, i have done a major cleaning in there but that did not work and i was thinking that i have to little fans in the computer. Only one for the cooling of the CPU. I buyed the computer two years ago and the games worked fine then so i dont know what it could be? The case is a Acer Predator and it is very much alike with the picture i have put in here

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When you say you did a major cleaning, did you remove the graphics card and directly blast the heatsink with canned air? This is often the only way to dislodge dust and cruft from the heatsink. Just make sure you don't let the fan spin when hitting it with the air. Otherwise the fan could spin too fast and damage the bearings. Make sure to hit it from all sides every direction.

I've had this exact thing happen. When I got down and blew the dust out of the card, I got what looked like a pad of lint (like you'd remove from the dryer) in the exact shape of the intake. It was completely stopping air from getting in.
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That case design on the inside kind of makes me laugh. But to me it looks like the front of the case might have room for a 120mm fan if you removed the bottom drive cage if that is possible. The fan would be choked off but it looks like it might have room to mount one.
 
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Actually I dug this up with a little more research http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/some-acer-predator-gaming-pcs-recalled-due-to-overheating-issues.88735/ it was showing recalls due to heat issues. So you might want to consider contacting acer
 
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When you say you did a major cleaning, did you remove the graphics card and directly blast the heatsink with canned air? This is often the only way to dislodge dust and cruft from the heatsink. Just make sure you don't let the fan spin when hitting it with the air. Otherwise the fan could spin too fast and damage the bearings. Make sure to hit it from all sides every direction.

I've had this exact thing happen. When I got down and blew the dust out of the card, I got what looked like a pad of lint (like you'd remove from the dryer) in the exact shape of the intake. It was completely stopping air from getting in.
 
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Yeah removing it is really the only way to be sure you get all the dust out, especially if your card positioning is similar or the same as in the picture. You'd be hard pressed to removed all the dust from the graphics card with the card that close to the bottom of the case.
 
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I did it now and the idle temprature is 46-50 degrees so yeah much dust in and around the gpu fan and it worked good (Y) thanks for the help guys :D
 
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