PC regularly turning off

NickTheBiz

NickTheBiz

NickTheBiz

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...presumably due to temperature, although my HWMonitor trial has run out.

My spec is as follows
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CPU: AMD A10-5800K 3.80GHz @ 4.40GHz Quad Core APU
Motherboard: Gigabyte F2A85X-UP4 (Socket FM2) DDR3 Motherboard
RAM: Patriot Viper 3 "Red Venom" 8GB DDR3 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit
Cooler: Prolimatech Lynx CPU Cooler
Samsung 840 Series 120GB SSD
Seasonic S12II-520
Samsung HD204UI - 2TB x 3
Samsung ST2000DL004 - 2TB
NZXT H440 Case
2GB Sapphire 260 R7

It was bought overclocked from this very company but I lost BIOS settings recently and had to reselect them using this video... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIk-juTFqjE



2 questions
1) Is there a good in Windows temperature monitor?
2) The case is new like my overclock settings so presuming it's one of these two that has started to cause the heating (plus the English summer). Should I be upgrading the CPU cooler?
 
I would be looking at around 40c ~ in the BIOS, recheck the cooler is attached correctly.

I use Hw Monitor to monitor my temps.
 
Core Temp 64, Free. And 70+ is BIOS is waaaay too hot. I'd reseat the heatsink, failing that - you've done your OC wrong and pumping too much voltage through.
 
Great tool, freeware.

https://www.piriform.com/speccy

Gives you all system temps.

As said above, check your CPU cooler is connected properly. Maybe contact OcUK support for your OC settings. You could be running way too much voltage through it (and damaging it)
 
Ok chaps a bit more help needed.

I took the CPU cooler off and reseated. It seemed fine anyway, so I don't think that was the problem. So I reset my bios back to defaults updated HWMonitor and booted up. Now getting some wildly different results.

Pre bios reset, CPU when idle was averaging cica 60 degrees. Now it's a lot cooler but when I start a game the temperature is spiking. For example this morning its currently at...
47 with a lowest of 44 and a highest of 82

So now I'm wondering if my CPU cooler is the problem again, in that the case I have is quite new and I think the fans are working against each other.

The back exhaust fan is pulling air out and the fan on the CPU heat sink is pulling air in. They're only a couple of inches from each other so could this be the problem? I've got some new thermal paste coming in the morning and I'll take the heatsink off again, clean it up and reapply.
 
That cooler looks pretty light weight, set it back to default and test temps and see if it still does it

And yes, why cant you flip the CPU fan so that it works with the exhaust fan instead of against it
 
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