Could high CPU temperatures and high CPU usage be caused by a cheap video card?

I have a super cheap integrated Geforce 7100. Could that cause high cpu temperature and high cpu usage during game play?|||m not quite sure about cheap video card, but you need to understand that a good video card, cheap or not, comes with its own cooling mechanism, in simple words, it has its own little fan... :) dis is very necessary as any high end video card does cause cpu core temperatures to rise because of the excess computing and it turn drawing up off of more power...|||It's airflow, if the air isn't flowing, possibly because it's being blocked by the video card now, you'll need to put another fan in the case to assist cooling. No a video card on it's own won't cause your CPU to heat up. Bad thermal paste probably, open it up clean out the dust (another temp bandit) and get some Arctic Silver reapply that to the processor, and that should solve the problem. New fan, new thermal paste and clean it out.|||cheap video cards shouldn't make a difference, as long as the video card can handle DirectX commands then the CPU should just pass the 3D data straight on to the card for processing and it shouldn't bother it.



Increased cpu usage can be caused by other nasties like malware, or a virus, or some kind of badly wrote program.



as for increased temperature, ensure the air flow inside your case is flowing correctly.



When you install a fan inside a PC case you can put it in two ways, one way it sucks air in and the other way it blows air out. Ideally you should have as a minimum 2 fans inside your PC case, one on the front or side to suck cold air in, and one on the back to blow cold air out.



On mine I've gone a bit overkill. I have two sucking fans in the roof and one on the side all sucking air in and then 3 fans on the back all blowing air out, so the air has a flow from the front to the back.



Obviously if all fans are positioned so they are blowing air out the CPU will overheat as very little cool air is going in, and the other way round you can just end up circulating the warm air round and round the case.|||Not really. Maybe for physics, slightly.|||Not at all. The GeForce 7100 is merely a chipset with its own cooling and different processes. It's completely separate from the CPU.



With that said, if you're experience higher CPU temperatures I highly suggest that you



1) Clean out your PC from dust with an air duster

2) Replace the thermal paste with some arctic silver (google it)



It should remedy the temperature problem.|||Some onboard graphic chips are pretty good on these newer boards but thats not always the case. Chances are the on board video memory is rated lower then most games operate on even at minimum specs. Yes you could be having high cpu temps playing games that stress your video and make your processor have to work harder. If you have a open pci express slot you may want to consider buying a upgraded card.