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PC shutdown due to high temperatures yesterday. Now it is shutting down at low temperatures.

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It was very humid here yesterday and my PC overheated and shut down due to a high load on the CPU. I booted it back up today after cleaning it up and making sure there was little dust left. The PC ran for around 30 minutes but shutdown then.

 

The processor is an FX-8150 and the graphics card is a HD 7950. Any thing I can do, or did I burn the CPU?

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What temperatures did you hit?

"It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brain falls out." - Carl Sagan.

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I didn't get a chance to see before it shut down. I'd estimate it at 65-75 C.

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I didn't get a chance to see before it shut down. I'd estimate it at 65-75 C.

Was it humid in the area where your PC is? Was the room humid?

"It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brain falls out." - Carl Sagan.

"I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you" - Edward I. Koch

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Was it humid in the area where your PC is? Was the room humid?

Yes.

 

I'm also running the PC at the moment. It spiked to 56C from 46C for no reason.

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Yes.

 

I'm also running the PC at the moment. It spiked to 56C from 46C for no reason.

Are you sure you didn't increase the load on the CPU? I'm going to take a guess and say the humidity in the room could've affected your PC.

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"I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you" - Edward I. Koch

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Are you sure you didn't increase the load on the CPU? I'm going to take a guess and say the humidity in the room could've affected your PC.

 

The shut down last night happened while playing an MMO and had a high player count on the screen, more than 100 players. Today it shut down on the same game with no high player count or any other apparent reason.

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do you have crashlogs from windows or isnt that a thing? (must have worked too long with linux to forget this:))

Computer's don't make errors. What they do, they do on purpose.

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