hi, my temperatures are normal. cpu temperatures 30+ idle, 40 under load. system never goes above 30. and yes, i'm using 32bit with only 3gbs of ram. i've actually installed 64bit, but did a full reformat because the pc also locked up under that too.
i will try your evga suggestion. and i've looked at the event viewers and all it tells me, every time i had to force restart, that there's an abnormal shutdown. nothing else.
also, sometimes while playing games, there might be a nvdklm.sys tdr error. i've only gotten it once and returned back to desktop. but usually, it's a hard lock, and my keyboards become unresponsive. this sometimes also happens while i'm on youtube or simply typing on the internet. i've used memtest awhile ago with no problems. i've also changed memory just to be sure, i've also done the same with psu.
i've looked at the gpu temperatures and they're in the normal range, as far as i remember. i'll check again with gpu z.
ok, the temperature for the gpu is reporting back as 40 at idle, 35% fan usage. after about 20 minutes in a game, it's at 50 degrees, the shader clock and gpu usage rose. i didn't see much change for anything else.
ok. playing the most graphics intensive game i have, temperatures rise to nearly 60, fan rises to 40 percent or so. this is for about 20 minutes.