PC Shuts down when Intensive games are played

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eduardaramyan1989

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Hi, everyone!

I am totally lost and can't figure out what's wrong with my PC. It keeps shutting down when I am playing intensive games (e.g Paragon, Tom Clancy's The Division).
I have run the AIDA64 System Stability test and these are my results, but I don't understand what I should be looking at. Is everything good here or something needs to be addressed? Any help would be highly appreciated!
The link to the pic of the stats:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rpYx_6Uxg5JqWafMEmFI8FGRVsE_IWib/view?usp=sharing
 
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tigsounds
There are so many differences in BIOS's supplied by the many different PC companies one would just have to go into the BIOS and look at everything it has to offer. Somewhere in there you may come across CPU temperature warnings and shut down point that you can set. It doesn't hurt to look around. Just don't change things for the sake of changing them and only click to "save" if you found what you are looking for and desire that change. Your video card may also have a BIOS screen with similar settings, or an application to accomplish this. My response that it appears to be temperature related is based on experience since your machine is shutting down suddenly with nothing else apparently wrong. It probably starts right back up again...
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I'm just doing a drive-by here so this may or may not be your problem....

The stress test programs do not sustain a stressful situation. Check your BIOS and see what the shutdown temperature is for your CPU. Your games are running things at the performance limit and aren't backing down. I suspect you have an automatic shutdown caused by a thermally limited device. If the BIOS shuts you down it is without warning unless you can set an alarm (they usually only make a beep, once, so be alert for it if you can set it.

High-powered video cards can shut you down without warning too, so look at that while you are at it.
 
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Hi! Thank you so much for the reply! I really appreciate the help. Can you explain me please, how and where exactly I should look for this in BIOS?

 
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I also encountered this situation when I was playing Happy Wheels on https://www.freegames66.com/happy-wheels. This game is really simple and light, it does not affect the CPU but still error.
 
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There are so many differences in BIOS's supplied by the many different PC companies one would just have to go into the BIOS and look at everything it has to offer. Somewhere in there you may come across CPU temperature warnings and shut down point that you can set. It doesn't hurt to look around. Just don't change things for the sake of changing them and only click to "save" if you found what you are looking for and desire that change. Your video card may also have a BIOS screen with similar settings, or an application to accomplish this. My response that it appears to be temperature related is based on experience since your machine is shutting down suddenly with nothing else apparently wrong. It probably starts right back up again just fine after the minute or 2 it had to cool down.

Make sure heat dissipating devices are clean. A dusted-up fan/heat sink is deadly to a computer.
Never use a vacuum cleaner on a computer (guaranteed to kill your machine). They make those "can-of-air" dust removers for blowing dust out of things without damage or electrostatic build-up, use them.
Your heat sink/fan may be inadequate. If it's a crazy-powerful processor, use water cooling, they take longer to overheat by virtue of the mass of the cooling medium and if you hear the fans roaring, you know things are getting hot.

Good luck.
 
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I know this is gonna sound weird but if you bought the game from Steam, their game servers remember your settings AND crashes, too. Go into the games and find the 'reset' button or 'set the game back to default settings'. Remember to write down your settings so you can program them back in.
Hope this helps.
 
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