- Aug 17, 2018
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Let's start this off by saying that I don't have a lot of knowledge about PC's.
Lately I have been encountering a very consistent and annoying problem. Every time I try to play a game, the PC decides to shut itself off after a while. The PC is able to turn right back on after shut down. It started when I was playing Just Cause 3, but now it can even happen whilst browsing the internet. I tried some troubleshooting online and people talked about changing some Win10 settings around, but sadly this hasn't worked for me.
So I thought it was a hardware problem. I looked up my CPU specifications and it turned out that the maximum temperature according to the manufacturer should not exceed 61.1 ºC. However when I ran MSI Afterburner it showed regular temperatures around the high 70's ºC and low 80's ºC during games (with the stock CPU fan). I have also been thinking about a PSU problem.
Here are my specs:
- Cooler Master K-380 Advanced 3.0
- AMD Vishera FX-8320 Eight-Core
- Cooler Master Hyper H412R
- MSI 970 Gaming
- Crucial Ballistix Tactical 8GB DDR3-1866
- Nvidia GTX 960 2GB
- 1000 GB Sata III HDD
- 600 Watt Cooler Master PSU3
- Windows 10 64-bit
Yesterday I had a local PC shop switch my stock CPU fan with the Cooler Master Hyper H412R. I was very happy with how silent the fan was, but after playing Ark Surival Evolved, it shut down after a while again and the case was very hot.
Possibly worth mentioning:
- When I change the energy settings to energy saving the problem does not occur, temperatures stay much lower but the PC runs very slow.
- When changed to balanced energy settings I can make the PC last if I take a side panel off and have a external room ventilator blow towards the CPU. No problems occur then.
- Event Viewer shows Kernel-Power 41 as a cause for the shutdown.
I hope this forum can help me out since I really don't know what to do anymore.
Lately I have been encountering a very consistent and annoying problem. Every time I try to play a game, the PC decides to shut itself off after a while. The PC is able to turn right back on after shut down. It started when I was playing Just Cause 3, but now it can even happen whilst browsing the internet. I tried some troubleshooting online and people talked about changing some Win10 settings around, but sadly this hasn't worked for me.
So I thought it was a hardware problem. I looked up my CPU specifications and it turned out that the maximum temperature according to the manufacturer should not exceed 61.1 ºC. However when I ran MSI Afterburner it showed regular temperatures around the high 70's ºC and low 80's ºC during games (with the stock CPU fan). I have also been thinking about a PSU problem.
Here are my specs:
- Cooler Master K-380 Advanced 3.0
- AMD Vishera FX-8320 Eight-Core
- Cooler Master Hyper H412R
- MSI 970 Gaming
- Crucial Ballistix Tactical 8GB DDR3-1866
- Nvidia GTX 960 2GB
- 1000 GB Sata III HDD
- 600 Watt Cooler Master PSU3
- Windows 10 64-bit
Yesterday I had a local PC shop switch my stock CPU fan with the Cooler Master Hyper H412R. I was very happy with how silent the fan was, but after playing Ark Surival Evolved, it shut down after a while again and the case was very hot.
Possibly worth mentioning:
- When I change the energy settings to energy saving the problem does not occur, temperatures stay much lower but the PC runs very slow.
- When changed to balanced energy settings I can make the PC last if I take a side panel off and have a external room ventilator blow towards the CPU. No problems occur then.
- Event Viewer shows Kernel-Power 41 as a cause for the shutdown.
I hope this forum can help me out since I really don't know what to do anymore.
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