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  • When I play games for a long amount of time or a short amount of time, my PC freezes.
  • 64 bit Home Premium
  • I have the Corsair CX600M Power Supply, Cooler Master Seidon 120v water cooler, FX-9590 AMD CPU, R9 270X Toxic OC. Sharkoon T28 Mid ATX Case + 1TB Hard Drive
  • BIOS Version 2.33 B13.0902.1
  • Team Fortress 2, Minecraft. What surprises me is that it happens on easy games.
  • No error messages, the screen just freezes and I cannot do anything

 

P.S It seems to happen when my cpu water cooler gets hot.

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  • When I play games for a long amount of time or a short amount of time, my PC freezes.
  • 64 bit Home Premium
  • I have the Corsair CX600M Power Supply, Cooler Master Seidon 120v water cooler, FX-9590 AMD CPU, R9 270X Toxic OC. Sharkoon T28 Mid ATX Case + 1TB Hard Drive
  • BIOS Version 2.33 B13.0902.1
  • Team Fortress 2, Minecraft. What surprises me is that it happens on easy games.
  • No error messages, the screen just freezes and I cannot do anything

 

P.S It seems to happen when my cpu water cooler gets hot.

 

 

 

I have 2 fans on the Radiator on each side so I don't understand :(

Are you sure your fans are facing in the right direction? If they're not they might be pulling in the warm air from inside the case and bringing it out and thisa may not be cooling the rads enough to keep the water cool enough to cool your CPU.

 

How is your water cooling config setup?

 

You can try clearing some things up on your computer, how much space is left on your HDD?

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  • When I play games for a long amount of time or a short amount of time, my PC freezes.
  • 64 bit Home Premium
  • I have the Corsair CX600M Power Supply, Cooler Master Seidon 120v water cooler, FX-9590 AMD CPU, R9 270X Toxic OC. Sharkoon T28 Mid ATX Case + 1TB Hard Drive
  • BIOS Version 2.33 B13.0902.1
  • Team Fortress 2, Minecraft. What surprises me is that it happens on easy games.
  • No error messages, the screen just freezes and I cannot do anything

 

P.S It seems to happen when my cpu water cooler gets hot.

 

What is your OS? I know 64 bit, but 8 or 7?

Downloading programs from CNet is not a good idea, as they will commonly include unwanted, and sometimes dangerous bloatware... The more you know.

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Are you sure your fans are facing in the right direction? If they're not they might be pulling in the warm air from inside the case and bringing it out and thisa may not be cooling the rads enough to keep the water cool enough to cool your CPU.

 

How is your water cooling config setup?

 

You can try clearing some things up on your computer, how much space is left on your HDD?

Here is a picture if that helps also

 

The black fan is pushing the warm air to the radiator and the green fan is pushing that warm air out if that works?

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Here is a picture if that helps also

 

The black fan is pushing the warm air to the radiator and the green fan is pushing that warm air out if that works?

Do you have any fans in the front of the case? If not you may not be getting sufficient airflow through the case to keep the rad cool. Also, are you sure you have thermal paste on your CPU? Because if you don't have Thermal paste than your watercooler will do just about nothing when the temps get high.

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Do you have any fans in the front of the case? If not you may not be getting sufficient airflow through the case to keep the rad cool. Also, are you sure you have thermal paste on your CPU? Because if you don't have Thermal paste than your watercooler will do just about nothing when the temps get high.

Yep I have the Artic MX 4 something like that thermal paste

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Yep I have the Artic MX 4 something like that thermal paste

Did you install all the fans yourself? Because you need to  make sure they are pushing air the way you want/need them to, there should be an arrow on one corner of the fans indicating which way the air is flowing.e

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Did you install all the fans yourself? Because you need to  make sure they are pushing air the way you want/need them to, there should be an arrow on one corner of the fans indicating which way the air is flowing.e

The 2 fans at the front were pre installed but the 2 at the back were installed by me

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Yep I have the Artic MX 4 something like that thermal paste

If you have any extra left try installing a new dot or line of it just for good measure. I just had to do that to mine. Also try to get some canned air and blow out your graphics card cooler really good along with your radiator with the fans off and the rest of the case for good measure. 

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if you have any extra left try installing a new dot or line of it just for good measure. I just had to do that to mine. Also try to get some canned air and blow out your graphics card cooler really good along with your radiator with the fans off and the rest of the case for good measure. 

Yep I have loads of thermal paste left, so should I clean it then put thermal paste or just apply more on?

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The 2 fans at the front were pre installed but the 2 at the back were installed by me

You could try and make sure that the air is surely being force to the outside of the case, if it isn't then one might be trying to push it out of the cause, while the other is pulling it in, that could make it not cool properly. 

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Yep I have loads of thermal paste left, so should I clean it then put thermal paste or just apply more on?

Clean it off of the cold plate on your radiator and your cpu with rubbing alcohol and a coffee filter until everything is off, then apply a small pea sized dot or a line the size of an uncooked grain of rice

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You could try and make sure that the air is surely being force to the outside of the case, if it isn't then one might be trying to push it out of the cause, while the other is pulling it in, that could make it not cool properly. 

 

Okay how do I make sure of it and in what order shall I put the 2 fans in like on the corners how should they look to push in or out etc.

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Clean it off of the cold plate on your radiator and your cpu with rubbing alcohol and a coffee filter until everything is off, then apply a small pea sized dot or a line the size of an uncooked grain of rice

 

I do not have rubbing alcohol but I have white spirit and nail polish remover? Could I use that

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I do not have rubbing alcohol but I have white spirit and nail polish remover? Could I use that

I wouldn't try doing that.

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