Right so this problem has been happening for the last few months or so. When playing any game my computer will shutdown and restart after around 10 minutes. I suspect it is overheating but I have seen that the PSU may also cause this kind of thing to happen. It runs fine during normal operation and I used to be able to play video games for hours in the past. It has overheated twice about a year ago but after I dusted it out it worked fine until the current issue started. I tried checking the temperature after the most recent restart but I could not get into bios. I will try and induce a restart during game play and get the temperature reading shortly. Also if there is a way to find out the temperature during gaming then that would be helpful. When I put my hand near to where the processor is located is does feel quite warm, though not as hot as it did on the occasions when it overheated in the past (On those occasions it did not restart but simply shutdown. When I attempted to switch it back on, it said it had overheated and needed time to cool down).
Since I got the PC I have made a couple changes, namely upgrading the 650W PSU to a 750W and upgrading my GPU to an MSI AMD R290x. I have been through a few hard drives. It originally came with a 2TB Seagate (model number st2000dm001) I shifted the OS to am SSD about a year or two ago but the SSD recently had some problem, no idea what it was, so I just replaced both hardrive with a new single 2TB Seagate HDD (same model as the old one).
I have had the PC for the last 4-5 years.
PSU - Corsair CX750M model 75-002019 (Recently acquired in April 2015)
CPU - AMD FX-8320 Eight-Core Processor 3.50GHz (The original I got 4-5 years ago)
GPU - MSI AMD R290x (Can't say exactly when I got it, I'd guess around 2 years ago)
RAM - 2x 4GB Corsair XMS DDR3 (Original, 4-5 years old)
Motherboard - Asus M5A99X EVO (Original, 4-5 years old)
HDD - 2TB Seagate model number st2000dm001 (In use for the last few months) Problem in question existed before the change of hard drives.
Cooling System - Some kind of Corsair liquid cooling, unhelpfully I don't know the model. (4-5 years old)
Any help with this problem would be greatly appreciated.
Since I got the PC I have made a couple changes, namely upgrading the 650W PSU to a 750W and upgrading my GPU to an MSI AMD R290x. I have been through a few hard drives. It originally came with a 2TB Seagate (model number st2000dm001) I shifted the OS to am SSD about a year or two ago but the SSD recently had some problem, no idea what it was, so I just replaced both hardrive with a new single 2TB Seagate HDD (same model as the old one).
I have had the PC for the last 4-5 years.
PSU - Corsair CX750M model 75-002019 (Recently acquired in April 2015)
CPU - AMD FX-8320 Eight-Core Processor 3.50GHz (The original I got 4-5 years ago)
GPU - MSI AMD R290x (Can't say exactly when I got it, I'd guess around 2 years ago)
RAM - 2x 4GB Corsair XMS DDR3 (Original, 4-5 years old)
Motherboard - Asus M5A99X EVO (Original, 4-5 years old)
HDD - 2TB Seagate model number st2000dm001 (In use for the last few months) Problem in question existed before the change of hard drives.
Cooling System - Some kind of Corsair liquid cooling, unhelpfully I don't know the model. (4-5 years old)
Any help with this problem would be greatly appreciated.
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