Computer crashes while playing games

LGDX_lepou

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Hello! I bought this computer a year ago and last week it was the first time that my computer crashed while playing a game. At first it would do it once per day but now it has become worse. Up to 5-6 times. Usually happens when I play high-demanding games including COD:AW, DayZ and League Of Legends (not really demanding but that's the first game it crashed on.). I looked up in the dump folder in "C:\Windows" to see if there was any crash report and there's none. The way it happens is that while playing normally, the game starts to drop FPS and after about 1-2 minutes the screen goes black and the computer makes a weird sound and it shut itself down, although it restarts immediately after.

Specs:

Operating System -> Windows 8.1 64-bit
CPU -> Intel Core i5 4440 @ 3.10GHz
RAM -> 8.00GB Single-Channel DDR3 @ 798MHz
Motherboard -> ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. K30AD_M31AD_M51AD (SOCKET 1150)
Storage -> 931GB Western Digital WDC WD10EZEX-22RKKA0 (SATA)
1863GB Seagate ST2000DM 001-9YN164 USB Device (USB (SATA))
Graphics -> 3071MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 (192-bit)
PSU -> 500 Watts


Speccy: http://speccy.piriform.com/results/wK2HZ81RGmYziPgTsYUpIPq


All of my drivers (so far) are updated. I've never experimented those crashed until last week.
 
I found the problem. Last time I opened the computer I cleaned all the fans except the GPU one which ultimately led to it having issues. It would go up to 100 degrees. After I cleaned it, everything got back to normal.