Getting intensive lag until blue screen D3/WoW

Bergilicious

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Hey guys,
I have some problems with my computer. To tell you the whole story, my 5 year old computer i bought from future shop (never changed anything until now) was doing some blue screens while i was playing League of Legends, WoW, and mostly D3. Went to some computer store and they told me my graphics card was getting super hot and told me we had to change it. This and power supply that we changed. Now, it has been a month now, it starts doing it again, but only when i play WoW and D3. It never does when i play LoL. Weird. I need help because i dont want to buy graphics card every month. Thanks in advance.
Alex
 
Solution
Did you get a new video card and power supply or a used one? It only seems to lock up in those few games, rest are OK? Try running a benchmark a few times to test the card. 3DMark, run it a few times in a row and see how it behaves.
First step, make sure the system is clean, no dust clogging the fans.
Second, I would re-install Windows and then the drivers, that should rule out any issues from the software side.

At least try to remove and re-install the latest drivers if you don't want to re-install all your programs. Trying a clean version of Windows is probably best though.
 

Bergilicious

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I did check it yesterday, there was some dust but nothing to be bothered. Ive clean it up just to make sure. Well, before when this problem came, i had windows vista so I reformated the computer and install windows 7. I did check last week and updated my drivers. Still, same problem. Dont know what to do!