Pc restarts when playing games

[Tomm01]

Hello,

 

Lately my pc shuts down when i'm playing games I think it is my cpu getting to hot but i'm not sure.

It is a very old Intel core 2 quad q6600 @ 2.4Ghz.

My graphics card is a: AMD Radeon HD5870

I play games at 1080p

 

 Any help is appreciated.

[Thinkfreely]

If its old, it could be any number of things. Typically check your powersource, that will usually fail before the CPU/GPU. Also what temps are your CPU and GPU getting to?

[Delicieuxz]

Has this started happening only recently? What is the power supply?

[EPPHO]

So download some app for temperature monitoring like hwmonitor and see if it overheats.

[Tomm01]

1 minute ago, Thinkfreely said:

If its old, it could be any number of things. Typically check your powersource, that will usually fail before the CPU/GPU. Also what temps are your CPU and GPU getting to?

The temprature of the CPU is around 65 degrees.

The temprature of the GPU is around 40/50.

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Tomm01 said:

The temprature of the CPU is around 65 degrees.

The temprature of the GPU is around 40/50.

Is that when playing games or not?

[Ace McPlane]

yea.. I think it may be time to upgrade.

FYI, you can get some used parts for a steal.

 

Buy a new 1150 socket type motherboard

find a used i5 4690, 4690k, or something along those lines

get yourself a used gtx 970..

etc

 

at the end of the day, you can actually build yourself a VR capable machine at a fraction of the price if you're thrifty.

If you test anything you buy on ebay right away within 30 days, they have an automatic refund policy even if the seller doesn't have one.

A lot of people don't know to take advantage of that

[Tomm01]

Just now, Abyss Gaming said:

Is that when playing games or not?

Yes it is when playing games like Counter Strike, Rust, 

[Thinkfreely]

Just now, Abyss Gaming said:

Is that when playing games or not?

Yeah cause if that is under load your fine, your gpu/cpu could get into the 80's and still be technically fine.

[Thinkfreely]

Just now, Tomm01 said:

Yes it is when playing games like Counter Strike, Rust

Then your temps are perfectly fine, time to replace the PSU.

[Tomm01]

1 minute ago, Thinkfreely said:

Then your temps are perfectly fine, time to replace the PSU.

Thanks for the advise, I will try tomorrow with a different psu

[LucasRem]

Many Striker II boards i saw that were running on bad PSU's, Intel 4 Chipsets too, same issue, 9950 CPU's or better, DDR3, but old FSB 800 Mhz express boards too. Hope that you will fix this by replacing that PSU.