8600 gs(note: no M)

[LycosIX]

I've been overclocking my card and sometimes, my games just hang for no reason when i exceed an unknown, invisible threshold in overclocking. But the temperature only peaks at 65 C. I can't see why would it hang, is it due to my unbranded '230W' PSU, then the card just hangs and i 've restart it. My card could survive at even peak temperatures of 85 C before i changed my gpu cooling solution.

At the same time is 53 C normal for idle temperatures? SpeedFan shows an fire icon beside my GPu temperature...

[Radiator]

230W is well... not nearly enough . Frankly I'm supprised it runs at stock clocks .
But if the PSU isn't enough it should just shut off ... still , wouldn't hurt to get a better PSU .

[-RK]

You definitely should be thinking about a better PSU, I'm amazed you've not needed to replace it already.


As for hanging when overclocked, that isn't necessarily from heat. A low quality card will fail when it's overclocked.