What do I need to change with my pc in order to smoothly play some games?

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Hello, i have a small question, what do I need to change with my pc in order to play games such as League of Legends, Dota 2, CONTINENT OF THE NINTH SEAL and simular.. I got some problems and i think its with my LC Power, each time i start a game my pc just shuts down after 10 minutes of playing, and i think its only cause of heat, but still i would apreciate your opinions. Pls do give me advice!!

PROCESSOR: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+ 2.69 GHz
RAM: 4.00 gb
Graphic Card: NVIDIA GeForce 210
Available Graphic Memory: 2815MB
Video Memory: 1024MB
Hard Disk Space: 900-1000GB

P.S. I really dont need high settings or anything i jsut wanna play them without a problems, atleast for now, I know somethings is bad with my pc but i just dont know what exactly, aldo pc itself has a few years.
Thank you in advance !


 
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Juat about everything the graphics card first and foremost. you really should just build an entirely new one if you want a real gaming computer. I can suggest a couple graphics cards if you want you will probably need a new power supply to if you have a stock one from dell hp or whoever.
download a temp monitor like CPUID's HWmonitor and play the games in windowed mode so you can see what the temps are reaching.

IF you are overheating you may need to clean the system out with some compressed air. After if the CPU is over heating you may need to reapply thermal paste under the cooler.

you are correct your system does have a few years on it but you can still get a Nvidia GTX 640 or AMD's 230 and not have to much of a bottle neck for a GPU for more performance there.
 

Dunlop0078

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Juat about everything the graphics card first and foremost. you really should just build an entirely new one if you want a real gaming computer. I can suggest a couple graphics cards if you want you will probably need a new power supply to if you have a stock one from dell hp or whoever.
 
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a new build would be a good idea but if you cant go that rout check your motherboard and see if it can handle am3 or am3+ cpu's if so look at a phenom2 quad core.
as for the gpu anything over a gtx640 or 5850 will give you higher then minimum settings at 720p+
if you cant afford the cpu and gpu then upgrading the gpu would be a start but know you will have bottleneck issues as your current 1 is aging badly for games.