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Dust. Air flow. Drivers. Power supply. And sometimes it seems like even the phase of the moon.

Sounds like the kinda problem I had. Are you using Vista? Try disabling Aero and see if it persists.

Are you? Have you? Because this was the exact problem I was having and this solved it.

The FPS plummeting down to single figures then restoring to a smooth amount again doesn't sound like overheating to me. Overheating has never reduced my frames like this. It's resulted in artefacts then lockup.

If you run a game windowed, then click off it, the frame rate drops terribly in the game whilst it's not active. I'd say there's some kind of background process which is popping under and running taking away priority from the game.

Look at software, forget hardware for now IMO.

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I'd say there's some kind of background process which is popping under and running taking away priority from the game.

Look at software, forget hardware for now IMO.

That was my first thought too - hence what I said originally.

It's easy to blame problems on hardware... but more often than not, when it's something like that rather than an out-and-out failure of the entire system... it's software that's the problem.