Alright, I'm in a pickle here. Basically, I have noticed that under playing intensive games (namely The Sims 4, Civilization 5, Cities Skylines) my game has begun to be a meanie and re-emerge by freezing and reseting (effectively adding an entry in the BLueScreen Viewer, therefore, I'm blue-screening again) BSoD viewer shows NOTHING useful (points to error 0x0000124 and ntokrnl.exe or whatever.
However, I have been keeping an eye on my temperatures and I have noticed something somewhat peculiar.
When I start playing games, the tempreture of my Motherboard ( ASUSTeK Computer INC. M5A78L-M/USB3 (AM3R2) begins to steadily raise (slower in some games, quicker in others, takes about 2-4 minutes in Skylines) up to 73C degrees. IF I exit the game before the game/PC hangs, it will VERY QUICKLY drop back down to the averaeg idle of about 40C. If I recall, my GPU (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti) goes up to about 70C (35C when idle) if not less (I wasn't paying attention) and my CPU (AMD FX-6100 6-Core 3.3ghz if I recall) goes up to about 65 C. (25C when idle).
My Powersupply I believe is 500 W (yes, I know it is quite low) and I have 8GB of RAM.
So.. would anyone have any accurate insight into why my Northbridge (or my motherboard) would overheat so quickly when playing games (at this stage I am pretty much considering replacing my mobo, I got the money, I might as well) but I still don't understand why it overheats.
My overall air flow shouldn't be bad (I have 3 fans, on on the lower front, one in the upper back, and one on the top of the case adjacent to the upper-back one).
My dad has a theory that the Motherboard simply isn't strong enough to handle all the pressure, so any insights, I would greatly appreciate.
However, I have been keeping an eye on my temperatures and I have noticed something somewhat peculiar.
When I start playing games, the tempreture of my Motherboard ( ASUSTeK Computer INC. M5A78L-M/USB3 (AM3R2) begins to steadily raise (slower in some games, quicker in others, takes about 2-4 minutes in Skylines) up to 73C degrees. IF I exit the game before the game/PC hangs, it will VERY QUICKLY drop back down to the averaeg idle of about 40C. If I recall, my GPU (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti) goes up to about 70C (35C when idle) if not less (I wasn't paying attention) and my CPU (AMD FX-6100 6-Core 3.3ghz if I recall) goes up to about 65 C. (25C when idle).
My Powersupply I believe is 500 W (yes, I know it is quite low) and I have 8GB of RAM.
So.. would anyone have any accurate insight into why my Northbridge (or my motherboard) would overheat so quickly when playing games (at this stage I am pretty much considering replacing my mobo, I got the money, I might as well) but I still don't understand why it overheats.
My overall air flow shouldn't be bad (I have 3 fans, on on the lower front, one in the upper back, and one on the top of the case adjacent to the upper-back one).
My dad has a theory that the Motherboard simply isn't strong enough to handle all the pressure, so any insights, I would greatly appreciate.
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