Computer freezes during games

[Steve Goldberg]

When I run games that are CPU intensive, after about 10
minutes or so the computer freezes up. Keyboard and
mouse stop responding and the screen freezes with its
current image and the sound sounds like a broken record.
I thought it was just a heat problem - so I bought a
better heatsink and yet and I am still getting similar
problems when I run games such as Half Life, Warcraft 3
and Homeworld.

Is this a WinXP / software problem or a hardware problem?

[yeloduke]

It's possible your graphics card is overheating. Have you overclocked it?

"Steve Goldberg" > wrote in message
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> When I run games that are CPU intensive, after about 10
> minutes or so the computer freezes up. Keyboard and
> mouse stop responding and the screen freezes with its
> current image and the sound sounds like a broken record.
> I thought it was just a heat problem - so I bought a
> better heatsink and yet and I am still getting similar
> problems when I run games such as Half Life, Warcraft 3
> and Homeworld.
>
> Is this a WinXP / software problem or a hardware problem?

[Steve]

It is a possibility, but no I havent overclocked it. I
was thinking of getting one of those phat GPU heat
spreaders by Zalman but the I've got like 2 really big
fans right near it extracting hot air. :/


>-----Original Message-----
>It's possible your graphics card is overheating. Have
you overclocked it?
>
>"Steve Goldberg" > wrote in message
...
>> When I run games that are CPU intensive, after about 10
>> minutes or so the computer freezes up. Keyboard and
>> mouse stop responding and the screen freezes with its
>> current image and the sound sounds like a broken
record.
>> I thought it was just a heat problem - so I bought a
>> better heatsink and yet and I am still getting similar
>> problems when I run games such as Half Life, Warcraft 3
>> and Homeworld.
>>
>> Is this a WinXP / software problem or a hardware
problem?
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