new games freezing..

[Genesis15]

It seems like DirectX games are the ones freezing because Counter-Strike 1.6 plays fine but HL-2 and Guild Wars crash after 10 minutes.. Running:

AMD AM2 X2 3800+
2048 Corsair DDR2-667
MSI k9mm-v
XFX 6600GT 8x agp
windows vista/xp
380w Antec

hiload temps-

cpu 52c
gpu 82c

games run great until they crash...

i formatted and got diff drivers too.

 

[MrGenie]

i remember getting issues with my cpu getting that hot! i would shoot for max mid 40

 

[Genesis15]

your kidding me right?

 

[montag451]

More likely to be o/h vid card.

CPU on my sys shows up as 45C at boot - might be the dodgy ABIT BIOS though.
I would be happy anything up to 55C, and at full use upto 65C.

Maybe I'm just a wacky liberal, or maybe I like a cooked cpu for brekky

80 does sound a little high though.
Also, at what temp do you have the cutoff set at, in the BIOS?

 

[MrGenie]

Originally posted by: Genesis15
your kidding me right?

not at all... i had to change my heat sink.. and replace the system fan.

well i live in a hot environment. (saudi arabia) and i cant keep the A/C's on all the time... it would kill me in the elec. bill!!!


but yea.. i had heat issues.. probably my h/w was fragile and old..i really dont know .. but i did have situations where my PC refused to work .. once i changed the heatsink and the fan... eveything became normal.

this doesnt mean you are having the same issue... im just trying to tell you not to overlook the simplest things.

 

[RadiclDreamer]

Thats a bit toasty for the video card, but overheating should not affect only DX games, try reinstalling DX and then reload your gpu drivers

your cpu temp is perfectly fine