My computer freezes when playing online games

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Doris Man

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Hi everyone, I have a problem suddenly with my computer which freezes when I play multiplayer games online . These are my specs
CPU INTEL CORE 2 DUO
MOTHERBOARD GIGABYTE G41M combo PCIE X16
RAM 4GB DDR2
graphics NVIDIA GEFORCE 9600GT 512MB 256 bits

i ran speedfan and it says that my gpu is running hot aka 62C when I am not doing anything. Could this be my problem and do I need to put an extra fan ? Thank you in advance
 
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62 C at idle is high temperature. Playing multiplayer generally stress your CPU much more than playing singleplayer so it may be reason. If its 62 at idle there is high chance it can reach critical temperatures during game in which case PC would either shutdown or try to throttle down/freeze completely. It looks like yours is 2nd option.

Try to run some monitoring software on background during playing, best if that software will be saving data to file. After it freeze again check log what temperatures you had during game.

As to matter of fixing issue basic option is to check your cpu fan/whole pc if its not full of dust and clean it if it is.
This alone can often fix problem. If it wont help next options would be putting new thermal...
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62 C at idle is high temperature. Playing multiplayer generally stress your CPU much more than playing singleplayer so it may be reason. If its 62 at idle there is high chance it can reach critical temperatures during game in which case PC would either shutdown or try to throttle down/freeze completely. It looks like yours is 2nd option.

Try to run some monitoring software on background during playing, best if that software will be saving data to file. After it freeze again check log what temperatures you had during game.

As to matter of fixing issue basic option is to check your cpu fan/whole pc if its not full of dust and clean it if it is.
This alone can often fix problem. If it wont help next options would be putting new thermal compound between cpu and fan or getting better fan. Putting more fans in case may help a little, but most important is fan directly attached to CPU.
 
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Doris Man

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Thank you for your answer, I placed another fan and my temp dropped to 40 and as I can see it stays there. I will buy more to make sure it won't freeze again. It seems that this was my problem after all.
 
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