Sager 2090 powered off

I was playing TF2 today for maybe fifteen minutes, and then my wonderful sager turned off. I wasn't getting any artifacting, or lag, or anything abnormal. I've played here for an hour and a half before and had no problems. Playing at home I usually have a couple CD cases under the back feet just in case, but my gpu never pushed temps above 83 (tested w/ fear).

After it turned off it would boot for a few seconds, with no video output, then turn off and on again. I waited about ten minutes, turned it on it booted completely fine - gave me the windows boot mode screen (windows did not shut off correctly etc) and booted up fine. I checked my temps and I was idling at ~66. I'm frightened, why did this happen and what should I do?

 

Probably overheated and shut down to save its butt. While you monitored gpu temps before, maybe this time your ambient temps were higher, causing the gpu temp to go up more than before.

When was the last time you checked your heatsinks? Given that your gpu stayed cool and stable before, and now you're crashing, seems to me like you're cooling is not up to par anymore.

So check for dust covering up the heatsink.

 

Yeah, sounds like the main processor (not the VGA) overheated.

What you could do is run some CPU intensive tasks (SuperPi for example) and monitor the temperatures and see if it does the same. If yes, then maybe the heasink has some dust preventing good airflow.

 

it has been fairly dusty in my room (accumulates on my desk/ top of the keyboard). What can I use to monitor my CPU's temp? I have nvidia monitor, but that only shows me my GPU temp I believe. Also, will I need to open it up, or can I just spray some compressed air in all the vent and things? Thanks for your input.

 

You could try Fan Speed it seems to work well.

 

gracias

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what are normal CPU temps?

EDIT so I don't maek poast again, I'm idling at around 38-39 CPU, core 1 just went up to 51 doing 2m digits of SuperPi (the little flame appeared next to it, so I stopped the test).

 

51* is nothing to be worried about, absolutely normal. Anything under 80* is fine for your cpu. That little flame means nothing, it's just for show.

Also, your computer is designed to shutdown itself long before it reaches an unsafe temp that will fry the cpu, so you shouldn't worry about your cpu frying.

 

yeah, they dont' seem to be getting much hotter than 54. Which makes me wonder why my machine just died like that. I was in TF2 being a dick and shooting fire underneath the gates before the match began, so maybe it was karma =P. I'm afraid to run it now! Maybe I'll grab 3DMark and see where that puts my graphics card. Although I've been running for half an hour now, and it's not getting any hotter. Any other ideas?

 

My q6700 seems to idle between 43-47C depending on room temps. Under a full load it seems to hit 60C. I would think yours should be close to that as well.

 

I think it was your gpu overheating, not the cpu.

 

I just played about a half hour of HL2: Lost Coast Maxed, 1280x800 2xAA and 2xAF (windowed so I could watch temp carefully) and the highest it went was 88 EDIT: The GPU, that is, but it went back down afterwards. Maybe just a totally random phenomena? ..

 

It does happen from time to time. But I would probably plan an afternoon and clean out the fans and vents just to be safe.