Computer loses power while playing WoW

[kcsaenz]

your heat sink may just be loose. if its even a little loose it doesn't work

[Warrax]

Lol at 200c, of course it was an error otherwise your CPU would have died, horribly.

But yeah, temps over 60c is not recommended, I highly recommend getting a 3rd party CPU cooler like the Hyper212 (pretty common and good value). Also, change your psu!!! if you want to be sure it's broken, go to a local computer shop and ask a tech to test your PSU or buy a PSU tester and test it yourself. Knowing the brand and the specs of the PSU will give us hints.

[Scooby Dooby Doo]

There are no warnings when it shuts off? No quick BSOD or anything?

Nothing at all. The whole computer just shuts off.

[Gaidax]

Dafaq I just seen? lol

200c and still running? Do they plate space rockets engines with AMD CPUs for protection from heat?

[Kezotar]

Did your PC come like this or did you upgrade it? It might just simply be that you replaced any parts, and that your PSU isn't big enough to handle it when full load.

[Vash The Stampede]

Nothing at all. The whole computer just shuts off.

Do me a favor and find out the maker of your motherboard. HWMonitor is nice but not always accurate. Asus and ASRock for example have their own tools that do a better job at monitor CPU temp. Lets find out first who makes it and then we'll get a better temperature monitor. Meanwhile see if you can take a snapshot of your CPU fan.

[Kezotar]

He linked a stock PC for his specs. That usually means no upgrades. Best guess is either the heatsink isn't seated properly, the CPU fan isn't running or there is literally so much dust on it that there's no air movement at all.

He could still have added a few harddrives, even though they do not take too much power. Or simply, overclocked his card. Tbh, anything that might mean more power consumptions. His PSU is only 350W. Doesn't the CPU alone take 150?

[Stormspark]

The temps seem better now. Some computers use the case fan as the CPU fan in a cheap way. Take a snapshot of the case fan so we know what was going on, cause you went from 200C to 60C. Be careful not to burn up AMD chips cause their memory controllers are sensitive to heat. I should know from my overclocking.

There is no way the CPU was ever 200C. That is not physically possible. It would've melted through the motherboard at that temperature. The CPU, motherboard, and socket would be a pile of slag. The first one HAD to be an error with the temperature sensor or software. HWMonitor doesn't read the temperature of the integrated GPU on my laptop properly either and shows ridiculous numbers.

[Deleted]

Nice fusion reactor you've got there. Dilithium crystals?