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Advice on lockup problem
I've had a lockup problem for awhile that is heat related. I am guessing
that my video card has a heat failure based on the fact that for some period of time it ran without a working fan. PLus I need a better card anyway. However my heat related problem (definitely heat related since a fan aimed at the open case cures the lockups every 15 or so minutes in games like GTA3) could be a bad solder anywhere in my system or a failing component. My Athlon 800 never gets above 55C in even hot weather and my mobo is never above 35 C at the max. This is well within the specs. Anyway other than methodically switching out components with others that are somewhat equivalent I have given up hope of ever curing this problem unless it is the video card. Therefore I'm wondering is it a good time to switch to newer hardware. Here's what I got now. Asus A7V with 800 MHZ Athlon 256 Crucial SDRAM PC133 Geforce 2 GTS with 64 meg (being replaced with ATI Radeon 9700 non pro) All the latest Nvidia and 4 in 1 drivers and BIOS Antec 300 W PS I only play Half-Life based games plus GTA3. I never buy new games until they are low priced. Basically a year or 2 after they come out. Therefore I don't see a real need to upgrade because of performance. I think the ATI 9700 will cure all of my jerky video in GTA3 but this may be a CPU intensive game. If this is the case I can upgrade to a Athlon 1400 at max. However if I am gonna upgrade the whole thing I will upgrade to: Genuine Intel 865 PERL board 512 M DDR 400 2.4 Pentium 4 with 800 FSB I never overclock and I don't a real need for it. I want stability. I hear and I expect Intel to have the best chipsets and mobos stability wise. Companies like Asus make these great mobos that are "great" because they are pushing things too much. Opinions? |
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