pc keeps restarting while gaming counter strike...

[boxed]

past few weeks my pc has been crashing on me while i game counter strike. could it be theres no air flow going to the pc?...i have the case open having a big personal fan blowing into the case. is it that or do i need some mini fans on the case it self?

i have

2500+ overclocked to 3200+
512mb of kingstone ram
gforce 5900XT
420Watt of power supply

need more cooling?....new case maybe?

 

[PsharkJF]

Go stock then try again.

 

[Fuchs]

I don't think counter strike would heat up any rig built after 1998, but yeah sounds like you may wanna not OC and try it again.

 

[dclive]

Originally posted by: boxed
past few weeks my pc has been crashing on me while i game counter strike. could it be theres no air flow going to the pc?...i have the case open having a big personal fan blowing into the case. is it that or do i need some mini fans on the case it self?

i have

2500+ overclocked to 3200+
512mb of kingstone ram
gforce 5900XT
420Watt of power supply

need more cooling?....new case maybe?

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=32&threadid=1359897&enterthread=y

Read thru and follow that, and do all the updates listed, then if it still crashes, run mps reports and send me the dumps that happen after you update everything.

 

[PsharkJF]

Originally posted by: Fuchs
I don't think counter strike would heat up any rig built after 1998, but yeah sounds like you may wanna not OC and try it again.

You obviously haven't played steam. 😛
They took a game that ran perfect on a 500 mhz machine and made it so my 2.53 gets jittery fps. ;\
RIP WON

Oh, and btw, tfc > cs 😀