Gateway 6860 64 bit revving spiking problem

Hello, I am new to this Forum and was hopeful someone here would have some advice for me.

The fan sounds like it's about to take off and the processes column spikes to 99% when I check the TaskMaster. Mostly it happens when I play off and on for a long period on the Sims games, so I turned the graphics down a notch on those too.

NVidea card (Geforce GTX 560 TI) is updated. Not sure if it is a power supply problem, the upgrade to Windows 10, (I think not because this machine did this once or twice before the update), a CMOS or Motherboard problem. When I checked for Acer driver updates, it showed about 7 or 8 of them all dated from 2012 and 2013. I had it on automatic updates when I bought this machine new in 2013, so I don't know if I should download them or not. Will it simply not installed what is not needed???

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RevoMaxx

I don't think the Spike in the CPU to 99% has to do with your PSU. I am not sure what is wrong.

I don't know for what ever reason your system wasn't on the Windows 10 Upgrade supported list. With using 10 could be taxing your system as well.

I know you said you had the problem a few times before the update to 10. I am wondering what your Ram might be? How long do you leave your system running before a restart or a Cool off time?

One of the things I know on my systems anyway if I do things that tax the Ram and CPU often with playing a game or rendering large Graphics files if I don't restart my system at least once a day it will just give up on me and Crash. For my other systems that I only surf or do things that are not to taxing on the Ram or CPU I will go days without turning off my system without an issue.

I know that just because a sytem isn't listed on a Support site for upgrade to 10. Doesn't mean it can't run 10 just that they don't have Drivers that were made for 10. Some machines drivers for Win 8 or 8.1 work fine in 10. So if you see that your system needs a driver for your hardware you maybe able to update that driver with your older system but best to try and find one from the Manufacture.

In the end. I am not sure if you made a Ram update to your system. If you did I know that at times not 100% of all ram will work. In some cases most Value ram I found has problems with systems like you mention....