GPU crashing PC while playing Shadow of Mordor

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I'm currently using Corsair Link 4 to monitor the temperatures of my components, and I found out that my GPU is constanly over 60 degrees, even when I'm not gaming. While I'm gaming something like Football Manager, it goes up to 74 degrees, and while playing Shadow of Mordor, it goes all the way up to 85, and then my PC crashes.

My graphis card is a XFX Radeon RX 480 XXX - 8GB that I bought about 5 months ago, so it shouldn't be something like thermal paste or something. Anyway, can anyone tell me why it's so hot, and if I can cool it down? I have tried taking it out, getting the dust off my PC, etc.
 
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If you cannot get that front fan to pull any air from outside maybe try putting it on the bottom/side fan mount on the door of the case that comes off. The trick to that is having a fan cable that's long enough to allow you to connect it to your motherboard before putting the side back on. That should get a good amount of outside air to the bottom of your GPU so it can blow that cool air on its heatsinks.
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when it starts to crash your computer ? 2 weeks ago ? a month ago ? it seems that it was running ok then it starts to get hotter than usual. what is the warranty from the manufacturer ? 12 months ? if you have it for just 5 months, I would try return it to the manufacturer as it is still under its warranty.
 
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It only started to crash my PC when I'm playing Shadow of Mordor, and about 30-60 minutes into the game. When I'm gaming something else, such as Football Manager or even World of Warcraft, I haven't had any problems with it so far. It's only in Shadow of Mordor I've had issues with it.
 
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marko55 has good points. also, try to play SOM with video settings as low as possible, to not stress the video card, to see what happens. If you can play with that video configuration for more than usual, I would request the replacement of the video card (as it is under warranty) but try to verify what marko55 said before ask for a replacement.
 
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I have 1 fan set as outtake in the top of the case. However, in the back of the case next to the GPU, I have a Corsair 80i v2 cooler placed, that has two fans on each side of the cooler, where each of one is intake and the other is outtake, so it blows into the cooler itself. I'm not sure if that is a problem for the rest of the case.
 
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You should really have at least one fan on the front of your case sucking cool air in from the outside and feeding that to your GPU. Right now your GPU has no access to cool air so as it heats up and its fans start blowing its just gonna keep blowing warmer and warmer air around in your case, some of which is getting sucked out by your single exhaust fan and some which is getting blown across your H80's radiator on its way out. This isn't helping your CPU cooling at all either.

Does your case support any front mounted intake fans?
 
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Sorry, I found that there is one fan mounted in the front as intake. Howver, it's right up against the case, where it can't take any fresh air into the case though. Should I do something about the front to expose it more?

 
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If you cannot get that front fan to pull any air from outside maybe try putting it on the bottom/side fan mount on the door of the case that comes off. The trick to that is having a fan cable that's long enough to allow you to connect it to your motherboard before putting the side back on. That should get a good amount of outside air to the bottom of your GPU so it can blow that cool air on its heatsinks.
 
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