computer shutting off when playing open world games

B0wTieGuy

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Aug 23, 2016
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My computer started shutting its self off when i played planet side 2 and it went down hill form there. the only other that that made this happen was running a minecraft server and joining it. recently i was playing pokemon uranium and watching Netflix and this happend. other games like league or mincraft (playing on a public server) work fine. any thoughts?
 

Manly_Kitten

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May 27, 2016
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your CPU may be overheating, when was the last time you applied thermal paste, it would be best to apply thermal paste once a year as it will help a lot with the transferring of heat from the CPU to the cooler.
 

B0wTieGuy

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Aug 23, 2016
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I found out that my power supply's fan wasn't working and everything is working now. Thanks