Computer Freezing/Crashing During 15 mins of Gaming?

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jwillams77

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I've built my own pc solely for gaming. After about a year I'm getting about 10 - 15 minutes and my PC shuts down. I've opened up the case and dusted. Not working. My CPU is getting to 48.5 to 50 C and it shuts down. After dusting, I've gamed with the case open. Same result.

Would like to figure out what's bad so I can fix it before Arkham knight releases.

Specs.
PSU - Turbolink Switching power supply
Model ATX-CW500wP4 12v (500 watt max)

Motherbourd - ASUSTek Computer M4A7T

PC - AMD Phenom II X6 1100T

ATI Radeon HD 5670
8GB of ram (Corsair) Two 4GB sticks.


 
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Voltages from cold start.
CPU VCORE - 1.264
VIN1 - 1.048
AVCC - 3.392
3VCC - 3.4
VIN4 - 1.024

Voltages at graphics card - 1.100
voltages recorded using ASUS sensor recorder at crash:
VCore - 1.386
+5v - 5.080
+12v - 11.834
+3.3v - 3.392

 
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jwillams77

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Temps?

Cold start 32 - 33 degrees per core,
systin 34
cputin 40
auxtin - 128 (This stays high the whole time)
Tmpin3 - 40.

Crashing ASUS monitored temp - CPU 30.5, RAM 23 at start of gaming, CPU 47.6, Ram 34 at crash of gaming.

Games I play:
I;m currently trying to play Batman Arkham Origins Cold Cold heart DLC - it's crashing on a windowed 1028 x 720 with all extra graphic effects turned off.
It's also crashed while my son has played Minecraft or Lego Marvel Superheroes.
 
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As I said in my first comment: Turbolink appears to be from the deep-end of the bad PSU pool with units that can barely deliver half of their sticker ratings so your "500W" PSU might not be worthy of being rated at more than 250W when brand-new.

Now, low-quality PSUs have a tendency to age very poorly on top of failing to meet their label ratings even when fresh so if your PSU is more than a few months old, what you are seeing is very likely the first obvious signs of your PSU being very sick and about to die. In that case, you want to fix or replace it before it has a chance to take the rest of your PC along with it when it pops if you do nothing.
 
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jwillams77

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unfortunately I'm not quite out of the woods. The PC definately runs quieter with the RoseWill 500 watt PSU, but I'm crashing after 30 minutes as opposed to 10 minutes. Guess it's time to investigate better cooling methods.
 
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