Thread: Processor overheat problem

I have AMD Athlon X2 4400+ CPU, Gigabyte GA-M61SME-S2 motherboard. My PCs PSU is CIL Odyssey 450W. I want to add a ATi Radeon 4850 or 4830 or NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 graphics card. Can I do this? Is there is any performance drop of a graphic card because of a PSU? Wi II these cards be bottlenecked with my CPU and board. I want to play F.E.A.R. 2 and Crysis at maximum resolutions (1600 x 1200). Another problem with my processor is that it heats up to 90 or 100 degrees centigrade when I play games like NFS Prostreet and Carbon.

Firstly, your CPU will get fried if you do nothing. Probably the contact between the CPU and its heatsink isn't proper or the fan could have died. Please get this checked ASAP. Also your motherboard is a value option and while its not going to bottleneck your performance your CPU most definitely will. I suggest an upgrade to a Core 2 Duo at least. You could pick up a good P45 motherboard for around Rs. 8,000. A Core 2 Duo E8400 will set you back by another Rs. 8,000 bucks. Next, upgrade to 4 GB of DDR2 RAM. This will cost you around Rs. 3,500. Then buy a GTS 250 graphics card for Rs 10,000. If you can spend up to Rs 14,000 the GeForce GTX 260 will really do the trick.