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Originally Posted by Dantenoc
Wooohoooo!!!! my computer's broken 
Well, actually I'm not glad that my computer's broken, but it is, which means that:
1) I wasn't losing my mind.
2) I now what's wrong with it, ergo it can be fixed
that speedfan utility coupled with the alt-tabing tip proved golden. I can actualy see my system heating up just before it begings to lag, at which point I alt-tab out to give it a break, see it cool down, and go back to SH with no problems until it heats up again. (which is pretty darn fast)
I'll try a good clean up job of all my computer first, and see if that helps. If not, I'll follow the advice given for dissipating heat.
I think this will do it, but I'll let you guys know what happens just to share with others on the results. |
Kinda funny when someone is so excited that their computer is broken!
Glad you found the problem so quickly. And walrusbomb is giving you good info, go for the artic silver! And when you clean off the old stuff make sure you get it all. Otherwise you will have gaps between the cooler and the cpu and that will make it worse than it is.
And walursbomb (Love that name:rotfl
also asked if it was the cpu that was overheating. Check it out, I find that the newer game tend to rely more on the video card (GPU) while the older games put more strain on the cpu. so it may not be your cpu. And a lot of video cards don't even have fans on them and the heatsink is on the bottom...duh...heat rises. so if you don't have good circulation or a fan blowing on the heatsink, it heats up quite quickly.
But whichever component it is, it should be a fairly easy fix. Good luck, keep us posted....I see we crossposted, you posted at 2:30 while I was typing info and posted at 2:33, can't get any closer than that.
Peabody