PC Restarting while playing Battlefield 4 Online

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Lawk Duski

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It has been twice that i get this problem. when i play battlefield online. i play it for a while like 15 mins and then the computer restarts. like suddenly it restarts.
i have played battlefield before for hours and i started getting this problem since 2 days. what could be the problem? im guessing its my CPU Throttling. even through the fan works. so im thinking about replacing the thermal paste
im playing on High settings with resolution of 1440x900
i3 3220 With Asus Radeon HD 7850 with 8gb of ram
now i know the CPU is weak for such online game so thats why im doubting my CPU is the problem. but yet again i used to play good until recent
any ideas?
thanks.
EDIT: IT ONLY HAPPENS ON BATTLEFIELD 4. I play Company of heroes without any problems on it.
 
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You should download realtemp and see if your temperatures are getting too hot. It could also be an aging power supply that is getting tripped for over-voltage or temps as well.
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my PSU is not too old. it has been like a month since i bought it. its Corsair CX600
 
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cx series is budget builder grade which is not good (not calling you cheap) ....been there, done that, broke that lol). cheap chokes and other components. 7850 requires 500W min of quality psu. I would suggest planing on getting new psu soon ( cx degrades fast and if you game a lot you will start hearing coil whine when under load) that means its time.Evga G2 SERIES is reasonably priced and really good.10 years warranty cant beat that. My rig in my sig. running that beast 10 hours a day gaming/editing/rendering for months so far and no problems.
Anyways going back to your problem........If you have stock cooler and TIm wasnt replaced in while i would suggest taking heatsink off, clean cpu and heatsink with some min 90% isopropyl alcohol and apply some new TIM suck MX4 or arctic silver. I prefer MX4 cause doesnt require burn in time and its good compared to others. Or get new heatsink, remove factory tim and aply mx4 on new one to avoid hassle later. I think your restarts are related to heat.
Download Intel Extreme Tuning Utility and when you run benchmark or stress test it will let you if is throttling because of the heat issues and you can monitor temps and stuff when running XTU. Nice tool to eliminate problems and see system performance. Hope that helps.

BF4 is kind of cpu intensive, 4790K utilizes 50%- 70% on all cores when gaming so is kind of a lot.

 
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i upgraded my motherboard and CPU to i5 4690k and ASUS Z97-E
i run battlefield 4 on ultra settings on 1440x900 resolution with no problems. no crash no lag no restart. BUT my PC Heats up. while playing an intensive 64 player match in BF4. my CPU Temp tickes between 70-78c and my GPU Temp Ticks between 67-73c
is this normal? note that i only have one 120mm fan that takes air into the case from front. and im using stock cooler on my CPU
 
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GPU temps are fine,but CPU is starting to get near limit since you are on stock cooler.Cheap solution would be Raijintek Aidos or Themis. Both of them will reduce your temps ALOT.Even with Aidos who is smaller you will be in low 60's MAX during BF4 and it will even allow you OC to 4.0 - 4.2 Ghz and Themis will do the same with lower temps.And next upgrade you could do would be monitor for better picture quality and overall gaming experience and later a nice GPU from new AMD lineup(most of them will be just re-brands).
 
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how about Cooler master Hyper evo 212? i can afford it and i heard its the best air cooler available
 
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i can afford a liquid cooler as well. just not those big radiators. something like Corsair H60. can you suggest me the best Cooler for my CPU that will make me able to overclock it as well? no big radiators through. my case doesnt support it
 
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Corsair h80 will do it. It's 120 mm rad and I would install it in front of the case as intake, add exhaust fan on the back and if you have room install some fans on top of you case. Heat rises so you want all the heat out asap from your case. I would suggest corsair af 120 fans for exhaust.they have quiet edition and performance. If you have fan controller then I would get performance if you don't then quiet edition. Fairly quiet and move lots of air. Cooler master sickleflo fans are good but loud as hell.....just like 747 take off lol.
I have 3 af fans installed as exhaust and air flow is good and quiet at the same time.
Any stock heatsinks are bad....forget about overclocking on them. Unless you have money to buy cpus every few months then that's no problem.
 
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