Alex Six Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 I was playing GTA4 for maybe at most 15min. (messing with the settings, using throttle stop) and BAM my computer shut down.... for the computer to hit TJ in 15min, should i be worried? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
svl7 Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 Tjunction is 100°C for the SB chips if I remember correctly. GTA4 is very CPU dependent... but it should throttle itself in case it gets too hot... I recommend making some log files during the next gaming session, GPU and CPU. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Founder Brian Posted June 12, 2011 Founder Share Posted June 12, 2011 Did you have logging on to check if it hit TJMax? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mw86 Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 Exactly see what kind of speeds you are reaching and the temps while gaming in GTA 4. That game, max settings can cripple a top end computer of even today. Call it bad coding. It wasn't built for PC and was sloppily ported over... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevenxowens792 Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 1. Can you duplicate the shutdown? (if so give us full details on how you replicated the shutdown)2. Are you monitoring temps? if so what tools or logs and can you post the results please?3. Does this happen in any other game? Push the machine hard to see if it happens in other games (within reason)Please keep us posted. i am interested in hearing this. BW, Stevenx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Six Posted June 13, 2011 Author Share Posted June 13, 2011 Well gaming on m14x as we all may know is not ideal in terms of heat, some of you may use a cooler others (such as myself) just raise the back a bit. honestly the normal temps i see when playing GTA4 is about 89*C keep in mind that this is with the back raised about 1.5 inches.today, as i stated i was messing with the GFX settings and i had the GFX card OC'd to 750/1500/1080 and again with the back raised it reaches 89*C but this is after 1.5-2Hrs of gaming. but the starge thing is that after 15min MAX (more like 10 but for the benefit of the doubt) it must of hit the TJ because the computer just shut off, ive never had this happen before and after that happened i played RE5 for about 2hrs with the back NOT raised, and that did not get over 85*C.Note:i have never opened the computer, aside from swapping the HDD with a SSD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevenxowens792 Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 Alex (just my opinion) I would lower the GFX mem speed because it causes extra heat and not much performance gain... play at like 750/1000. That's a nice overclock for a notebook gpu. Keep us posted. StevenX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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