wuts wrong with my XP2600+ T-bred

[WuGahCha]

hey guys, my PC locks up in games such as warcraft3
I'm NOT overclocking

running:
XP 2600+ t-bred (12.5x166, stock)
asus a7v8x-x
enermax 300W
512mb apacer DDR333

I think it's heat related cuz when i open the side of my case and blow the mobo with my table fan it wont crash I got a better case with 3 80mm fans for better airflow and artic silver5, and upped Vcore by 1 increment, helps a little bit but it just rebooted itself recently again (reported 55C).

my temperature: 38C idle, 50ish load (normally)

are those too much for T-bred to handle or is my cpu just bad???
I dont want to spend too much on upgrade,

any advice is welcome thx

 

[3chordcharlie]

upping vcore won't help temperatures, but if your temp readings are remotely accurate, they shouldn't be causing a crash.

It's possible something else in the system is overheating though; check your video card fan (I've had trouble with the fan on an mx440 once). Now that I see it's a lockup during games, I would bet video card temps, or drivers are to blame.

Also, is the AV7 board a kt266 board? If so, I had a somewhat similar problem that was cured by disabling 'automatically restart on system failure' (start-system-advanced).

 

[WuGahCha]

oh sorry, its the a7v8x-x board, my bad
pretty sure its not the video card, my mx440 is passively cooled, and i also tried a relatively new mx400, also gave me same problem

 

[3chordcharlie]

I'm not entirely up on my asus nomenclature, but I think that's a newer via chipset board (KT400 I'd assume), I'd still try diabling the automatic restart on system failure, and see if that helps.

-cheers

 

[WuGahCha]

yeah the mobo is kt400, i'll try disabling the auto reboot, but the problem i had with WC3 before was it crashing(freezing), not rebooting my pc...