Solving an overheating issue on a prebuilt PC

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About two years I bought a pre-built PC from ibuypower and since I then I have had issues with it shutting down while playing graphically intensive games. Depending on the game this takes at least half an hour to occur, which has lead me to believe that it's an overheating issue. Furthermore, I recently have been monitoring my PC temperatures and have discovered that my AMD fx 8120 regularly gets several degrees above its factory limit of 61c. This is not a new issue as previously, right after I bought the computer, I had returned it to get my overheating Radeon 7950 replaced. This time however my GPU seems to be operating in a safe temperature range so i'm not worried about it so much. Also, I am not overclocking my PC, and the only thing I have changed as of recently is the intensity/prerequisites at which my fans operate. Based off of this information my does it make sense to replace the thermal heat sink on my pre-built PC with a much better one, and would this likely solve my problem? I will admit that my room does not have air conditioning (although I may invest in this) and during the summer months it can reach high 80's.

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Recently I modified my fan perimeters to blow at full speed temperatures well below 61c, and I cleaned the inside around 3 months ago. My question is that based on the fact that my CPU still gets above 61c does it make sense to buy a new heat sink or or am I just wasting money on something that is going to continue to give me issues.
 
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Recently I modified my fan perimeters to blow at full speed temperatures well below 61c, and I cleaned the inside around 3 months ago. My question is that based on the fact that my CPU still gets above 61c does it make sense to buy a new heat sink or or am I just wasting money on something that is going to continue to give me issues.
 
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If I were to guess my room temperature i would say around 20C. My motherboard is only around 29C as of right now. Also as a side note I think I slightly overestimated when I said my room can reach high 80's during the summer. It gets hot but it's probably a few degrees cooler than my first guess.
 
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IN THE BIOS there is a category which says how hot the cpu is what temp does it say? If its more than 50+ also tryt to unplug the cpu cooler from the motherboard's port 1 (cpu fan 1) and connect it to the cpu fan 2 and check temps again
 
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The CPU was 41C in BIOS. Also, is there any reason why I should adjust fan settings in the BIOS opposed to doing it on windows via application.
 
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If you do it in the bios its 99% sure that it will be apllied if the controller works. On my pc with speedfan (program) if i adjust the fan speed the speed wont change unless I do it in the bios. Try to adjust the fan speed in bios and put it in performance mode if it has this mode or in full speed mode and tell us your temps
 
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I set all fan settings to default on ASUS AI suit and MSI afterburner. After that I went into BIOS and switched settings to "performance level". I then went in game to see how hot my CPU would get, first without changing fan parameters and then again with my custom levels. In both instances after about 25 minutes of play my CPU got above 60C.
 
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I set all fan settings to default on ASUS AI suit and MSI afterburner. After that I went into BIOS and switched settings to "performance level". I then went in game to see how hot my CPU would get, first without changing fan parameters and then again with my custom levels. In both instances after about 25 minutes of play my CPU got above 60C.
 
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