My PC keeps turning off...please help

[KisaiTenshi]

yeah its definitely the cpu over heating. its at 28-30. after less than 3 min in game it goes to 68 and keeps climbing unless i alt tab

wanna hear something weird. ive been playing since that post. here are the tests i have found. Skyrim on ultra for 1 hour, never breaks 43 degrees. FF on borderless windowed mode, never breaks 42 degrees, unless i am in a sanctuary. then is starts climbing. it took the prime 95 9 tests of max stress to overheat it. takes about 15 min in a santuary tops, but it i am in a fate, dungeon, or just soloing out in the world, very rarely gets to 35. WTF? i know its the shit coding SE is using that is making our systems go nuts, i hope they fix it, untill then i will monitor until a definitive answer is given or a fix. and stay out of sanctuaries for extended amounts of time.

IMO, this can still point to a improperly mounted CPU cooler/TIM (gawd do I ever hate stock Intel coolers "pushpins" mounts, I can never tell if it's mounted right.) The previous two CPU/MB mounts I just ditched the stock cooler with an aftermarket one, and when I removed the MB I kept the CPU and heatsink mounted because I didn't want to take all that gear apart again. Right now I'm using a haswell with a stock cooler (not stock TIM however, and it hasn't been delidded.) I haven't had ... well any of the problems people are frequently mentioning beyond the occasional crash after several hours.

If the TIM is uneven or the cooler itself isn't flush against the CPU, then it's not working efficiently, or your pumping system isn't working. You can try http://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp/ and see if the CPU's are all heating at the same rate. (click "more downloads" so you don't have to download the other junk just to install it. It doesn't need to be installed, only run.)

[JustinLovesIzzy]

IMO, this can still point to a improperly mounted CPU cooler/TIM (gawd do I ever hate stock Intel coolers "pushpins" mounts, I can never tell if it's mounted right.) The previous two CPU/MB mounts I just ditched the stock cooler with an aftermarket one, and when I removed the MB I kept the CPU and heatsink mounted because I didn't want to take all that gear apart again. Right now I'm using a haswell with a stock cooler (not stock TIM however, and it hasn't been delidded.) I haven't had ... well any of the problems people are frequently mentioning beyond the occasional crash after several hours.

If the TIM is uneven or the cooler itself isn't flush against the CPU, then it's not working efficiently, or your pumping system isn't working. You can try http://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp/ and see if the CPU's are all heating at the same rate. (click "more downloads" so you don't have to download the other junk just to install it. It doesn't need to be installed, only run.)

downloaded program, cant figure out how to make it show each core though

[MissRoxy]

downloaded program, cant figure out how to make it show each core though

It will only show CPU#0 temp since you have an AMD FX-4100 processor.

The ones that show multiple core temp ( #0,#1,#2,#3 ) are usually intel processor(s).

[JustinLovesIzzy]

game running great as long as i dont enter cities or sanctuaries for more than 3min at a time. so dumb. but i guess when i want to do inventory or crafting, selling, or buying anything, i'll just have to play on ps3.