PC Shuts Down While Playing

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My PC shuts itself down when I play either Skyrim or Men of War Assault Squad. As far as I remember, it didn't used to do this about a year ago. I used to happily play Men of War and Skyrim without any sort of shut-down.

- I don't think it's a GPU heat issue because I ran some logging software and it didn't reach more than 75 degrees before the PC shut down.
- I don't think it's a CPU heat issue because the CPU temperature was logged at about 10 degrees below the GPU at all times.
- I installed the latest GPU drivers today and the issue persists.

The Specs:
Intel Core i5 655K @ 4.4GHz
8GB DDR3 1600MHz Dual Channel RAM
Gigabyte P55-US3L Motherboard
Zotac GTX275 896MB
Western Digital 1TB SATA2
Corsair CX400 PSU
Antec 300 Case
Liteon SATA DVD-RW
Windows 7
1 x 120mm Fan blowing air in from front
1 x 120mm Fan blowing air in from side
1 x 140mm Fan blowing air out top
1 x 120mm Fan on CPU heatsink blowing toward back
1 x 120mm Fan blowing air out back

Any ideas?
 
have you tried stressing your pc see if it shuts down whilst using prime or intel burn or could be a power supply issue
 
alex h said:
have you tried stressing your pc see if it shuts down whilst using prime or intel burn or could be a power supply issue
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Intel Burn ran successfully (Standard run, 2 tests):

Time (s) Speed (GFlops) Result
37.278 23.9785 3.375460e-002
Time (s) Speed (GFlops) Result
38.702 23.0966 3.375460e-002
 
it might not be psu,qpi/vtt voltage is for the memory controller inside the cpu,you can adjust it in the bios

but I need to know how much is being used atm
 
probably your multiplier is set to 44, find this and change to 32.
set the rest on AUTO... but before you do that... save the information... so if you do something wrong you can change it back.
 
Drangueos said:
probably your multiplier is set to 44, find this and change to 32.
set the rest on AUTO... but before you do that... save the information... so if you do something wrong you can change it back.
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The CPU Clock Multiplier was actually set to 28. I've now changed it to 14. I'll give this a try.
 
wait wait why have you changed it? if it was a pre overclocked machine it will be set to 28x whatever bclk to give you 4.4ghz

qpi/vtt is way too low for 4.4ghz,id set it to atleast 1.315v and then see if it crashes in games

set cpu multi back to 28 for now and test with qpi/vtt at 1.315v
 
wazza300 said:
wait wait why have you changed it? if it was a pre overclocked machine it will be set to 28x whatever bclk to give you 4.4ghz

qpi/vtt is way too low for 4.4ghz,id set it to atleast 1.315v and then see if it crashes in games

set cpu multi back to 28 for now and test with qpi/vtt at 1.315v
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I dunno. I thought I was following Drangueos's line of thinking. Anyway, it didn't do anything. Skyrim soon crashed like usual.

I'll do as you suggest and try it out.
 
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