PC shuts down into 15 mins of playing a game

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dominatrix99

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Hey toms hardware! my name is mike, and recently one of my friends gave me his EAH4870 / 512mb. I have a 435W PSU, an m2v-se motherboard with 1gb ram and an AMD dual core proc. at 2.5ghz. now my problem is, after like 15 mins into a game like sniper : ghost warrior 2 the game crashes., the CCC ( catalyst control center ) indicates the GPU temp at 65 in the moment of crashing, the CPU is ok, it's at like 70C at full load and 60C idle, and the gpu is around 40*C after 10 mins of starting and idling, after i go into a game like League of legends, at ~ medium graphics the game works fine, same for NFS Carbon at high, Same for Borderlands 1,2 ,serious sam 2 works great, same for the HD remakes of TSE and TFE. halp me idk what's wrong.
 
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You can try Prime95 small-FFTs to see if you can cause your PC to shut down from overheating the CPU. If that does not succeed, you can try FurMark to see if you can cause the GPU to make your system reboot. If neither is successful on their own, run both together and if you get a reboot within minutes, the problem may very well be the PSU.
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Sounds like you have a 6+ years old PC. What is the actual PSU model and how old is it?

My guess is your shutdowns are simply the PSU's way of letting you it is dying if you are still on the original: there are not many decent quality 430W PSUs today and there were even fewer 5+ years ago.
 
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70 Degrees Celsius is not ok for an AMD Dual Core processor. Even 60 on idle is not ok.

I'm thinking that in idle your processor should never go higher than 40 degrees and in full load never go higher than 60 degrees celsius.
 
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dominatrix99

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Oh well, i think the pc was picked up in late 2007 :p . since then im stuck with this lil' shite. I got the PSU from the same friend, but it's not more then 4 y. old, it's his stock one so i guess it might be it, uh the 12v rail has like 14A on it so it might be the cause just that i want to be sure. I'll be back in a bit with the PSU model : SMART TECH, MODEL: LC-8460BTX. And by the way the CPU's Heatsink and fan are not stock ones.


 
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You can try Prime95 small-FFTs to see if you can cause your PC to shut down from overheating the CPU. If that does not succeed, you can try FurMark to see if you can cause the GPU to make your system reboot. If neither is successful on their own, run both together and if you get a reboot within minutes, the problem may very well be the PSU.
 
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dominatrix99

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Well, small-FFT crashed my PC. now i'm going to try FurMark! And i said it once i think, the CPU cooler is not a stock one.
2 min later edit : Furmark went well i'd say:
SCORE:1108 points (18 FPS, 60000 ms)
Max GPU Temp: 74°C
Resolution: 1024x768 (W) - AA:0 samples
FPS: min:19, max:20, avg:18 - OPTIONS: DynBkg
ASUS EAH4870 series (1002-9440)
Catalyst 8.751-100622a-102609C-Asus (6-22-2010)
GPU core: 750 MHz, memory: 900 MHz
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4800+ 2501 MHz
System Memory: 1023MB
Windows XP 32-bit build 2600 [Service Pack 3]
 
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dominatrix99

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Oh well, i dismounted the heatsink from the CPU, got the CPU out from it's bracked and cleaned it, there was some dust on it idk if that was it's problem or not, maybe i mounted it wrong once and it didn't do a good contact, anyways now it's fixed both programs run perfectly even when both together, thanks InvalidError!
 
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