2010-06-19, 05:01 AM
You've de-dusted your video card? If you've never done so, then it's obviously going to be dusty so it could be overheating. If you put "8600gt temperature" into Google, a lot of the top results are reports of very high temperatures.
To enable temp. monitoring in the Windows version of the NVIDIA Control Panel, you need this: http://www.nvidia.com/object/nvidia_syst..._6.06.html
To enable temp. monitoring in the Windows version of the NVIDIA Control Panel, you need this: http://www.nvidia.com/object/nvidia_syst..._6.06.html