PC keeps crashing constantly but works fine while playing games

[Frz101]

Hello everybody, I'm totally new here though i've visited this site countless times anonymously. Well my problem is my Pc keeps freezing (just like the title says). I had windows 7 and it crashed every now and then while playing some video or surfing the internet and other random things. therefore i dumbed down to windows XP. problem still persists but with few crashes this time. interestingly everything works smoothly while playing games. i dunno what to do. Please Help!

PC specs:

# Intel i5 2nd generation
# 4 GB RAM
# ATI Radeon 5670
# 500 GB HD

 

[nikorr]

Whats your PSU?

 

[nikorr]

What are your CPU+GPU temps?

 

[Frz101]

What are your CPU+GPU temps?

here bro: http://s1169.photobucket.com/albums/r516/frz101/?action=view&current=Cputemper.jpg


thank you

 

[nikorr]

This is while idle, right?

Its 14 degrees too high.

 

[nikorr]

Whats the room temperature?

 

[nikorr]

Whats your PSU?

 

[nikorr]

Can u try another PSU?

 

[Frz101]

PSU is 450 watts!

and i didnt know that was too high. i live in India. its pretty hot here. but it dose not crash when i'm playing games. and thanks for helping me out. can you tell me what should i do?

room temperature is 35 degree average

 

[Frz101]

i can try another PSU

 

[bloodymaze]

95 F is his room temperature... -- Might not be good for a PC boss. Sorry.

 

[InvalidError]

and i didnt know that was too high.

45C idle core temperature is fine, I get similar temperatures on my CPU when I set my HSF speed profile to quiet.

What really matters is load temperatures which most people want to keep below 80C, preferably under 70C.

 

[Frz101]

hmm....ok guys thanx a lot for the help.

 

[Frz101]

umm, i just got an error message saying: "VPU recover has reset your graphics accelerator as it was no longer responding to the graphics driver commands"

here's a screen shot: http://s1169.photobucket.com/albums/r516/frz101/?action=view&current=VPUerror-1.jpg

before that happened my computer froze for a while

 

[Frz101]

can that be a factor?