Let me go into detail, first the computer specs, then my upgrade. Finally my problem Prior config nforce 780I SLI Intel Quad 2.67ghz Q9400 2 Gig Ram (DDR2) 128 mb Geforce 8600 GT 1000 Gaming Power Supply Windows XP New Config nforce 780I SLI Intel Quad 2.67ghz Q9400 4 Gig Ram (DDR2) 2 Gig Geforce GT 610 SC + 20 MHZ (DDR3) 1000 Gaming Power Supply Windows 7 In my PRIOR config i was running League of Legends which can run on 1-5 settings Very Low, Low, Medium, High, Extreme.. I was running all video settings at Low and I would capture 60fps, and at worse 53 FPS. I started playing Diablo III, and a couple days later, I started hearing loud noises from my computer (Processing type noise) and all my video games started running a lot worse. League of Legends I was lucky to see 60 FPS at VERY LOW settings, and would completely freeze up with a lot of action going on. I figured it was a burnt out video card, and that I would upgrade my system. When I installed windows 7, I did partition the hard drive and do a clean install. Then I installed all my windows updates After that I went to the nvidia website to download the lastest motherboard drivers then finally installed my new graphic drivers, also downloaded from the nvidia website. I tested out my new config by playing League of Legends, and my performace got increasingly worse. At very low settings i was getting 3-10 FPS. I tried uninstalling my Video Card, and reinstalling again --- nothing I tried switching the PCI express slot it was in -- nothing The only difference on this upgrade is the computer is a lot quieter, but absolutely zero pick up in performance. Also, I adjusted my BIOS to pick up PCI EXPRESS first instead of PCI -- still nothing I did however notice on this last attempt that the CPU was running extremely hot +100F. Is there a chance I burnt up my mother board?
