Video card overheating?

[Morokiane]

Here lately my computer has been shutting down while playing games. I have dual quad core Xeon cpus and a nvidia 8800GTX video card. I got some temperature monitoring software. The CPU's were getting upward of 55C. I got some canned air and aired out the dust on all the fans and heatsinks. The CPU's now max out around 45C and idle around 35C. However the video card still gets up around 80-85C while playing.

What happens while playing is basically the computer just shuts off...and takes it about 30 seconds of pressing the power button for it to come back on. I'm still not sure if its heat issue with the CPUs, video card, or something else. It has shut off since the cleaning...and is just random on when it does it...and doesn't do it in all games. Mostly turns off while playing League of Legends and once while playing Wolfenstein.

 

[v8envy]

My guess: your PSU is about to give up the ghost. Video card should start artifacting rather than power off your machine, and it seems like your CPU temperatures are under control.

With a video card that old I'm guessing your PSU is getting up in years as well.

 

[dguy6789]

Power supply going bad is my guess as well. In most cases, that is always what causes a system to hard shut off.

 

[Modular]

+1 for PSU. Try spraying some canned air through the PSU and see how much crap comes out.

80-85c isn't that hot for your video card.

 

[Morokiane]

Alrighty. I'll look into getting a new power supply. Thanks for the help.