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Jwalant Gangwar

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First of all my Computer specs,

Mobo - Asus M5A99x evo
CPU - AMD 8150 Black Edition
GPU - Sapphire 7970 oc
PSU - CM RS 700 PCAA E3

So I have been playing games on my pc for the past one and half year and have encountered no problem what so ever, recently when tried playing Sleeping Dogs again my PC started shutting down or restarting. I thought overheating might be a problem, checked the temperatures and its was around 90. I went out the very same day and bought my self a CM Seidon 120M, installed it monitored the temperatures and they were around 24 C playing watch dogs or any other graphic intensive game. A while later my pc restarted by itself and now I have no clue about what the problem is. HELP. :|
 
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There's more than just your CPU overheating that will make your computer crash.

It's possible your motherboard or graphics card is overheating. The parts on your motherboard overheating could be the northbridge or southbridge, you might need to get a better case that has better airflow.

But I don't know what kind of case you have currently.

Also what's the ambient temperature of your room? your computer can't really get colder than your room, and if your room is 70C that's gonna start killing your computer, you're gonna need air conditioning or a way to get air moving through your house.
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There's more than just your CPU overheating that will make your computer crash.

It's possible your motherboard or graphics card is overheating. The parts on your motherboard overheating could be the northbridge or southbridge, you might need to get a better case that has better airflow.

But I don't know what kind of case you have currently.

Also what's the ambient temperature of your room? your computer can't really get colder than your room, and if your room is 70C that's gonna start killing your computer, you're gonna need air conditioning or a way to get air moving through your house.
 
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Thanks for Answering,

I have a Cooler Master Elite 431 Plus, my usual room temperature is around 16 - 18 degrees. I have been monitoring my GPU and its usually around 40c or 50 at max. I never had problems before, recently when I go windows 8 this started occurring. Any chance or reason this might be causing the problem?
 
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Well, making sure your case fans are placed the right way is important, basically:
a) all top and rear of case fans should blow air OUT of the case.
b) all other fans should pull air into the case.

Case fans MAY have an arrow on one of their sides indicating that air flows that direction.

It's also possible your drivers are crashing, did you make sure to update your drivers when you switched to windows 8?
 
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Use Win7. It is Road tested. Win8 is going to be like Vista and WinME. Win8 will be replaced by Win9 and nobody will use Win8 anymore. Just like WinME was replaced by WinXP and nobody ever used WinME anymore.
 
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The rear fan is attached to the radiator so it pulls air in and so does the fan at the bottom and front, the two fans on top blow air out.
Yes when I upgraded to Windows 8 I updated all my drivers, and I make sure I keep them updated.

Could it be that my PSU is not able to provide enough power? Would that force my PC to shut down or restart?
 
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Yeah Windows 8 is a pain in the ***, I hate that it's on my work laptop, figuring out how to shut down my computer was way more of a chore then it should have been.

 
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Actually, it looks like it could be: http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1804779/power-supply-unit-tier-list.html
That coolermaster series is in the bottom tier of "replace immediately."

Choose one from one of the top 3 tiers and you should be fine.
 
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i always buy the best PSU 1st when building a system.

don't think of a PSU upgrade as anything but that. It may not solve the problem. But, u should always have the best PSU u can afford.

So, figure out the best for ur money. Read as many reviews as u can. And JonnyGuru (PSUs) Dot Com is a good place to start. (Plus i always compare TH reviews and many sites to the JonnyGuru reviews.)

What i always mention is the quality of Seasonic PSUs and that several of Corsair PSUs are re-branded Seasonics but, the Corsair version has a longer warranty and better phone support.

Therefore I always, strongly advise, going with a re-branded Seasonic with the Corsair name on it.

Remember, ur not trying to solve current problem- maybe and hopefully it will- ur simply investing in a PSU for overall reasons. A PSU is like the quality of fuel u put into a Hot Rod or Rocket.... the better the fuel the better the results. ;)




 
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