PLEASE HELP! Strange problem, GPU overheating very suddenly

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I recently put a new mobo, CPU and RAM in my old chassis. I am still using my old GTX 460 as the GPU. For the first few days everything ran normally. Yesterday, seemingly out of nowhere, The GPU started overheating. I was monitoring the temp with Speedfan and, at idle, the temp is at least 60c. When I start a game (ME3) with in 30 seconds of opening the game temps reach 90-95c and after just a couple mins they are at 100c. This obviously causes the computer to crash. When the temps rise the fan spins up LOUD

What I tried so far is to remove the stock cooler clean it off and apply new thermal paste (there was a lot on there) and clean out the dust build up ( wasn’t much dust really).

This is where it gets weird and makes me think it’s a setting or software problem… I have an identical GTX 460 from years ago when I ran an SLI setup. I swapped the cards and it does the same thing.

Any ideas on what the problem could be?

Specs

Gigabyte GA 990FX UD3
AMD FX 8350
8 GB PNY DDR3 1600
Corsair 550W PS ( don’t remember the model # but it is gold rated)
GTX 460
Kingston 120 GB SSD
WD 1 TB storage drive

Thanks in advance for the help!
 
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coozie7
Sounds very much like the system has picked up some sort of virus or, more likely, malware, there's a lot of stuff out there that'll use the GPU for its compute power.
Try running virus and malware scans, you'll need both anti virus AND specialised anti malware software: Avast! or AVG are good free AV programs and Malwarebytes does a good job with...Well...Malware.
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"How is your case air flow the fx8350 is a hot cpu. And with hard working gpu you will get a lot of heat inside the case"

CPU is cooled by a sealed unit Cooler Master water cooler. There is a fan in the front for intake, and one in the back and one on top for exhaust.
 
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Sounds very much like the system has picked up some sort of virus or, more likely, malware, there's a lot of stuff out there that'll use the GPU for its compute power.
Try running virus and malware scans, you'll need both anti virus AND specialised anti malware software: Avast! or AVG are good free AV programs and Malwarebytes does a good job with...Well...Malware.
 
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I will definitely try that when I get home and post results.

Thanks for your reply
 
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Well I ran Malwarebytes and avast. Malwarebytes found 7 items, I removed them. No viruses detected. The problem persists. I am considering wiping the HD and reinstalling windows. The install is only a few days old so i wont lose much.

Any other suggestions?
 
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i had just experianced a overheating issue after buying a R9 390 (MAN IT IS A HOT CARD!!!) but anyways i found out my case cooling wasnt good enough by running my system with the case open and a house fan blowing over it from about 4 feet away on med my system was back to running like a champ i now know i need more airflow.... this test may help determine if airflow is the cause of your issue also what type of cpu cooler are you useing i had also found out by doing the above that it did not remove heat well from my CPU which had gotten to 155F with enclosed case with an open case it was running about 30-45F hotter then the surrounding air .... Hope this might help... btw i had 5 case fans i was pretty sure thatd be good enough NOPE i was wrong
 
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hey did you find a solution after all? i have an identical problem with my gtx 570 - suddenly started overheating after i installed Tomb Raider (2013).
I've since
-uninstalled Tomb Raider
-cleaned the fan/heatsink
-clean nvidia driver reinstall (multiple times and different versions, now on 359.00)
-win10 reinstall (kept programs and files)
-full scan with malwarebytes and symantec

the only thing i can think of doing at this point is reapply thermal paste, but i don't think it's a hardware issue, more likely my install of tomb raider was infected, but i don't know how to fix it

 
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