Computer Issues

So I've had some issues of late with my computer.  I was playing Assassin's Creed Syndicate, I wasn't recording at the time, but had finished recording some time earlier.

There I was minding my own business and suddenly the screen went black and after a moment I got a notice on my monitor that I had lost connection from the computer for it (you know as if you unplugged your monitor from the computer).  After that it was almost impossible to get the computer powered back on.  It eventually did power back on though...but anytime I started any game the same thing happened.  Least to say it was frustrating and then the computer just wouldn't power on at all.

Now initially I though that the motherboard had gone bad, but it looked like it was the power supply.  Lucking I had another PSU that I could install, though its wattage is only 500w compared to the older one which was 581.5w.



It works for now but I may need to get a better power supply here soon, possibly something over 600w (which is what the original was supposed to be at).

Now before anyone says anything about the CPU over heating...that has passed my mind.  So here's the thing, temperatures are often tracked in Celsius, and the hottest your CPU should run is 60.  Now using the MSI Click Bios II app, it says that the temperatures I'm running at normally is between 57C and 60C...that's without running a game.

However this app may not work well.  As such I downloaded the SpeedFan (4.51) app.  Now the tower I have has 2 fans built into it (that I can't figure out how to get to), with one not working, and it has 3 additional fans in it, one extra one I arranged blow onto the processor on top of the heat sink and fan that is locked onto it.  One fan is an air intake, another is an output.

The new app of course only detects 1 fan.  Not a big deal though.  As for temperatures:

• GPU = 37C
• Temp 1 = 49-52C - its fluctuating between a green check mark and a flame.
• Temp 2 = 40C
• Temp 3 = 32C
• HD0 = 38C
• Core = 34C

Now the temp being mentioned for the core here is way less than that the other program is saying.  I'm inclined to believe the new program.

I may need to look into getting a more exotic CPU cooling fan (liquid based possibly?).  But going that rout I'm looking at stuff from $55 to $80 for a liquid CPU cooling system.

On the other hand there are some life hacks that I could make and modify to pump cold air into the tower.

Either way I guess I'll see what happens and decide from there.