PC restarts itself while playing hitman

[WastelandWanderer]

after about half an hour or so of playing my PC will restart itself and when it turns back on it says it had to restart to protect my PC from a power surge, ive noticed as well that it gets way hotter than usual CPU about 50 c and GPU 55/60 c normally it takes hours just to get to 40 c. is anyone else having similar problems or know what is happening?

[Tim Timsen]

Get a better PC.

[lorddemolatron]

it can be overheat of PC or PSU problem in this case i think as myself i not had any situations like this even i play the game on gaming laptop and it never once too much heated.

[WastelandWanderer]

yeah very helpful timothy. I've got a intel core i7 4790, GTX 1060 6 gb and 16gb of RAM. however I've just tweaked the GPU settings and seem to of fixed the overheating problem but it still shouldn't make my computer restart to protect from power surge, that's the bit that's confusing.

[Kunovega]

Originally posted by WastelandWanderer:

yeah very helpful timothy. I've got a intel core i7 4790, GTX 1060 6 gb and 16gb of RAM. however I've just tweaked the GPU settings and seem to of fixed the overheating problem but it still shouldn't make my computer restart to protect from power surge, that's the bit that's confusing.

If your system is not built to handle the heat from certain high settings, you will have shut downs from over heating

The problem is in your setup or hardware. Some games can push a system to extremes, you need to know your limits and/or build a system that can handle those extremes

The game doesn't know how you built your system, it can't tweak itself to keep you under your temperature limits

I have an i7700k with a gtx1080 and 6 case fans, and I can still overheat it with ultra settings in a few games if I don't keep the dust filters clean

[Tim Timsen]

Originally posted by WastelandWanderer:

yeah very helpful timothy.

You didn't post your specs and expected help. Think about that for a moment.

[Klauth]

hardware problem, not software problem, as usual.

Pls OP, post all specs, including cooling, if you want some help. Most likely, your PC didn't shut down due to "a power surge" since the CPU can't detect that, but more likely due to overtemp.

overtemp = wrong cooling. If you fix that, then it will stop.

[WastelandWanderer]

Originally posted by Tim Timsen:

Originally posted by WastelandWanderer:

yeah very helpful timothy.

You didn't post your specs and expected help. Think about that for a moment.

are you like 10 years old or something? if you've got nothing constructive to say then keep your childish comments to yourself. The main part of my question was why is my PC saying it had to restart to protect from a power surge, normally if someones PC overheats it just switches its self off or restarts.

[Tim Timsen]

Originally posted by WastelandWanderer:

Originally posted by Tim Timsen:

You didn't post your specs and expected help. Think about that for a moment.

are you like 10 years old or something?

I could ask you the same.

[WastelandWanderer]

Originally posted by Klauth:

hardware problem, not software problem, as usual.

Pls OP, post all specs, including cooling, if you want some help. Most likely, your PC didn't shut down due to "a power surge" since the CPU can't detect that, but more likely due to overtemp.

overtemp = wrong cooling. If you fix that, then it will stop.

thanks for the reply. I've fixed it now, in the program "GPU tweak II monitor" i had the fan set to auto witch for some reason didn't change the fans RPM as it heated up. since i've changed it i've had no problems

[Piano man]

Originally posted by WastelandWanderer:

Originally posted by Tim Timsen:

You didn't post your specs and expected help. Think about that for a moment.

are you like 10 years old or something? if you've got nothing constructive to say then keep your childish comments to yourself. The main part of my question was why is my PC saying it had to restart to protect from a power surge, normally if someones PC overheats it just switches its self off or restarts.

Ignore him... there's a good chance you are right and that he is 10 years old, or mentally stunted; but the most likely possibility is that he's a ♥♥♥♥ !

[LoseSanity]

Yeah, automatic fans can be a bad thing sometimes, atleast in EVGA's cards, since the fans will not even spin if your GPU aint 60C, so if the GPU starts stressing a lot suddenly it can over heat.

Owned 2 EVGA's gpu's and on both of them i need to put the fan speed to 50% manually when i play a game. (even though it happens rarely its still a pain)

[Kunovega]

Originally posted by LoseSanity:

Yeah, automatic fans can be a bad thing sometimes, atleast in EVGA's cards, since the fans will not even spin if your GPU aint 60C, so if the GPU starts stressing a lot suddenly it can over heat.

Owned 2 EVGA's gpu's and on both of them i need to put the fan speed to 50% manually when i play a game. (even though it happens rarely its still a pain)

EVGA pretty much expects you to use their EVGA-Precision software to create a fan curve that will then increase your fan speeds

I switched to MSI last time I bought a graphics card and though they also offer a simillar program (afterburner) I have yet to bother installing it