Overheating system and crash

[MurphCID]

Holy Hannah! It actually caused my processor and video card to overheat, and it has smoked my main machine! Never had that happen. Heard the processor fan speed up, and I mean speed up, then the video card fan, then overheat errors. Whoa, anyone have any ideas on this? Checked my task manager, and the proc was running 100% on both cores for a while. Is this normal? AMD 4800+ processor, Nvidia 7800 GT video card w/ 2 gb of 3200 ram. All case fans running, nothing out of the ordinary. Nothing else running than the game. I've never had a heat related shutdown on this machine, its my main photoshop workhorse. Sorry; Xp Pro Svc Pack 2, all other updates added. Machine has NEVER run hot on any other game, ever. Its always been rock solid.

[templar_fan]

Video card kind of old. And AMD 4800+? Not really much of a game rig to begin with man.

[kannwar]

Yea that's pretty crappy by today's standards. Oh well now you have a reason to get something a bit more modern .

[Groove74]

I would also agree that I think you just pushed your PC over the edge, over worked it. Sorry to hear your PC died I know how bad that sucks to be without a working PC

[MurphCID]

Ok, just ordered the following:

AMD 810 quad core AM3 2.6 ghz proc
4 gb Corsair DDR3 RAM
Gigabyte 9800GT w/ 1 gb DDR3 ram
2x 1 tb Western Digital drives (photoshop has eaten my other drives)
ASUS AM3 MB

[Brusilov]

Ok, just ordered the following:

AMD 810 quad core AM3 2.6 ghz proc
4 gb Corsair DDR3 RAM
Gigabyte 9800GT w/ 1 gb DDR3 ram
2x 1 tb Western Digital drives (photoshop has eaten my other drives)
ASUS AM3 MB

With your old desktop I'd suggest opening up the case and making sure that there is no dust build up anywhere. The fans will suck it in and it will contribute to overheating.