how can i prevent a PowerSpec G478 Gaming PC CPU from getting too hot and crashing?

ShawnInSanDiego2002

I'm running a vide recompression task using Handbrake on a 22tb10 bit HDR video file, trying to recompress it down to around 4.6 tb 10 bit HDR video file using x265 codec using CPU encoding.

The process runs for quite a while, then the pc does a hard reboot, most likely because the CPU got too hot.

The pc is was bought last November so its still very new and has been crashing on occasion, mostly when recompressing 4k videos like this (occasionally particular 1080p videos, but that's really rare).

Is there a way to make the CPU more aggressive in cooling or tell it to throttle itself back instead of crashing if it gets too hot?

In case someone asks, yes, I tried NVIDIA 10bit h.265 hardware encoding and it compressed 1/4 of the video and then was black the rest of the video. plus I prefer the smoothness of CPU comressed video vs the result of hardware encoding which seems to have slightly more artifacts. No idea why the hardware encoding is failing too.

Moosetanks

I would try undervolting or tuning down your cpu if you really just want it to finish an encode. Intel extreme tuner with some tutorials online for your specific CPU are what I'd do. turn the voltage and speed down til its stable. Render. Default values after for gaming :)