Cpu Overheating Causing My PC To Restart?

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Ive never had this problem before, but recently ive started playing video games again. and after maybe a half an hour to an hour my pc freezes for a few seconds then shows and weird pixilated colorful screen which then restarts my computer. I looked at my temps and the highest is my cpu which is at 70-75 celcius while im typing this and nothing else is running. is that whats causing my crashes? if so how do i fix that? Ok after posting this i mentored my temps while playing and got this:
Operating System
Windows 10 Home 64-bit
CPU
AMD A8-5500 85 °C
Trinity 32nm Technology
RAM
12.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 798MHz (11-11-12-28)
Motherboard
MSI 2AE0 (P0) 29 °C
Graphics
HP 23bw (1920x1080@60Hz)
4095MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti (EVGA) 42 °C
Storage
1863GB Seagate ST2000DM001-1CH164 (SATA) 31 °C
Optical Drives
hp CDDVDW SH-216BB
Audio
IDT High Definition Audio CODEC

My CPU is getting pretty hot but everything else seems ok to me. this would be my only guess on whats happening
 
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Bo Lee
It can cause that to happen. I had a similar problem a while back, sometimes it would restart, sometimes it would just shut down unexpectedly. Turns out, my temperature was running hot. I put in a Wraith cooler and the problem went away. That CPU is rated at a max temp of 71 or 72 degrees (I keep seeing 71.3 pop up, which to me is an odd figure to post). So yeah, you are running way hot of its specs. You may want to clean your fan and remove the old thermal paste and reapply it. And make sure your fan is even functioning problem. The RPMs could be way down and it running hot. Do you ever hear a rattle sound from your fan? Could be faulty bearings in it.
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Bo Lee

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It can cause that to happen. I had a similar problem a while back, sometimes it would restart, sometimes it would just shut down unexpectedly. Turns out, my temperature was running hot. I put in a Wraith cooler and the problem went away. That CPU is rated at a max temp of 71 or 72 degrees (I keep seeing 71.3 pop up, which to me is an odd figure to post). So yeah, you are running way hot of its specs. You may want to clean your fan and remove the old thermal paste and reapply it. And make sure your fan is even functioning problem. The RPMs could be way down and it running hot. Do you ever hear a rattle sound from your fan? Could be faulty bearings in it.
 
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Yes do what stated above, redo thermal paste, clean it out, and what cooler do you have? Do you have anything overclocked? Does your case have good air flow? There can be many factors, but if its running at 85 degrees do not even use it for long periods of time because even 75 is bad for a CPU for even like 10 minutes, so be careful. Make sure you have fresh thermal paste, make sure theres not much dust, make sure the heatsync isnt full of dust.

Im assuming its not your case flow since your GPU and motherboard temps arent high, so it has to be something with the CPU itself (overclocked?) the cpu cooler, or you just got bad luck
 
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