23" Display Shuts Down After A Random Amount of Time While Gaming.

Hello,
I have a 23" Display that i've had for over 6 months. During the summer my room can get around 80 degrees.
Today (Auguest 20th) I was playing World Of Warcraft and after being on for a couple hours the monitor turned off and would not re-display when turned off then on again. However I could still navigate blindly and the sound was still functioning. Upon touching the monitor itself it was pretty hot, but it has been that hot for parts of the summer already.
So I decided to shut everything down and came back an hour later to turn the computer on and the monitor started to display again. When I started to play WoW again, after a random amount of time, the monitor shut off again and I was still able to navigate blindly etc...
My monitor is also not connected to a MaC, but a regular PC.
Is this a video card issue? Heat issue?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Edit Also when I am not gaming my computer has not blacked out and I currently have been on the computer w/o gaming for about 2 hours and everthing is fine.
Message was edited by: ijtl04

Hi-
Welcome to Discussions!
The blackout would most likely be a function of the video card. Do you have temperature monitoring for the video card? A hot GPU could result in loss of picture, as well as artifacts, and other graphic anomalies.
Might be a good idea to look at getting some additional cooling on the graphics card.
Also, stand the ACD power brick on edge- this will help the power brick to cool better.

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