Desktop reboots when gaming

Stargazer09

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I've recently encountered this situation where playing games (specifically, Fallout 4, The Crew and Diablo 3) causes the PC to reboot after a few minutes. However normal usage such as web browsing does not have this problem.
Any ideas what could be the underlying issue?
 

ZrE0_Cha0s

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could either these :

GPU failing
PSU failing
maybe software issues?
 
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I've recently encountered this situation where playing games (specifically, Fallout 4, The Crew and Diablo 3) causes the PC to reboot after a few minutes. However normal usage such as web browsing does not have this problem.
Any ideas what could be the underlying issue?

Could you list down the individual parts?
 

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Monitor the temperature of your CPU and graphic card. May be due to overheating.
 

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Could you list down the individual parts?
OS: Win 7 Home Edition Premium
CPU: Intel i5-4460 3.2 GHz
RAM 10GB (unsure of make)
Boot drive is a SSD, 111GB capacity according to properties
Secondary drive is a Toshiba 2TB HDD
Gfx card Nvidia GTX760

No BSOD

How do I monitor the temperature of CPU & graphic card?

Thanks all for replying.
 

ExArchz

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OS: Win 7 Home Edition Premium
CPU: Intel i5-4460 3.2 GHz
RAM 10GB (unsure of make)
Boot drive is a SSD, 111GB capacity according to properties
Secondary drive is a Toshiba 2TB HDD
Gfx card Nvidia GTX760

No BSOD

How do I monitor the temperature of CPU & graphic card?

Thanks all for replying.

U can download MSI Afterburner or ASUS GPU Tweak to monitor graphics card. Core Temp 1.0 RC8 for CPU.
 

zephyr11

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i had the same problem when i played gtav couple of years ago, it was gone after i changed out the psu.
 

jtjt00

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OS: Win 7 Home Edition Premium
CPU: Intel i5-4460 3.2 GHz
RAM 10GB (unsure of make)
Boot drive is a SSD, 111GB capacity according to properties
Secondary drive is a Toshiba 2TB HDD
Gfx card Nvidia GTX760

No BSOD

How do I monitor the temperature of CPU & graphic card?

Thanks all for replying.

Which power supply unit are you using?
 

Myu~sun

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To my knowledge normally if no bsod normally could be psu as not enough power?

If random crash. Graphic distorted n stuff normally gpu or ram
 
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