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I've been having a bit of a problem with my computer lately and I can't seem to solve it on my own. I recently fixed up my brothers nice computer that he had built for gaming. Here's the build:
Asus sabertooth 990FX r2.0
AMD FX - 8120
Nvidia GeForce GTX 650
Corsair CX750M
8 Gigs Team Xtreem DDR3 ram (4 sticks of 2 gigs each)
Windows 7 professional 64 bit
The problem I've been having is odd, whenever I try to play a video game about 10-15 minutes in my computer will shut off without warning. However, if I am doing anything else, like surfing the web or just leaving my computer to idle it will not shut down. I've tried pretty much everything I could think of, so I need some help. Thanks to anyone reading :)
 
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This sounds like an absolutely typical thermal issue. Download a program like MSI afterburner or Open Hardware Monitor and this will allow you to monitor what is going on with your hardware. Leave your computer to idle while running one of these programs to see how hot your CPU/GPU get. Then try again with a game. You might find that you reach a temperature like 95 Degrees and then lose power.

Solution would be to buy a cpu heatsink fan to replace the stock one that came with your CPU.
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This sounds like an absolutely typical thermal issue. Download a program like MSI afterburner or Open Hardware Monitor and this will allow you to monitor what is going on with your hardware. Leave your computer to idle while running one of these programs to see how hot your CPU/GPU get. Then try again with a game. You might find that you reach a temperature like 95 Degrees and then lose power.

Solution would be to buy a cpu heatsink fan to replace the stock one that came with your CPU.
 
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Unsure if this is your problem.
But I had PC that would literally reboot randomly, sometimes 4 hours, or even longer, sometimes 5 minutes.
I had removed the CPU, and bent 3 pins. they were not even connected.
I did not think it should even work.

Now I always remember this: when removing a CPU, Always warm it up first by turning it on for a bit.
The thermal transfer [the kind used then, and possibly still] turned solid and CPU would stick to heat sink.
 
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