PSU is Power Supply and GPU is your Graphics Processing Unit. Anyway for your problem of overheating try turning the PC on and pressing delete to get into your Bios or F1 or whatever your PC requires you to press to get into it. and Just click onto the "Load Optimized Defaults" Give that a shot hope it helps

you dont take the onboard one off

you stick in a new one into one of the card slots then tell the pc to ignore the built in one and use that one instead (in the bios)

oh thanks guys! ill see if i can get a new video card. I really appreciate it. (:

you need to figure out what card slot you have first, pci express, pci or agp

agp slots are brown, pci is white and pci express is black

this is only a rough guide!

Sorry man why i post my problem here but don't want to open new thread with the same problem.


I have the same problem, the diference is that i bought my pc yesterday and when i play CS 1.6 or f1 2001 (i tried this games so far) my pc freeze after few minutes and i need to reboot, i don't know what is the problem can anyone help me????


M2N32 sli deluxe/wifi
amd athlone x2 4600+
geforce 8600gt 512mb
2gb ram
250gb hdd

this is the performance from my new pc, so i still cannot understand why mu pc freeze on so "stupid" games

ovrheat, bad drivers or low power

Emphasis on the low power over here...

What's the wattage on the power supply?

400w

I went to newegg.com and used their wattage calculator and put in your specs (approx.) and it returns a recommended PSU of 373 watts... now you have a 400 but 400 is the maximum output.

So it could still be a power problem if your PSU isn't a very good one. If it's low quality it could say 400 watts but really be a terrible performer.

I use a 550 watt PSU and my specs are a bit higher than yours and I don't every have power problems.

Maybe get speedfan or some other temperature reading programs so you can see if you GPU or CPU are overheating.

But first of all, try some different drivers for your graphics card.

I had the same issue on some of my games and it was the driver. My experience with the power has been the screen wont even load, do you actually see the game or is it a blank screen? On my desktop I blew my psu and went and bought a new one. I saw 450 but somehow wound up with the 330, I didn't check when I was installing and when I didn't have enough power, I could get to the game menu but trying to load a game, just blank screen. I would check to update drivers before buying a new psu. Make sure you don't have any extra devices running sucking power also.