FPS drops, makes any game unplayable

product: hp pavilion p6404y desktop PC
I haven't messed with any of the hardware. I did hook up some speakers though.
So, for some reason, when I'm running something that normally plays very smoothly (say, STALKER or something) it will, around every 10 minutes, start playing at around 3 fps. which it keeps up for 2-10 minutes, then runs smoothly again. til the next FPS spike.
so I did what anybody would do and started looking up my problem. But, since I don't know exactly what the problem is, the google searches of the symptoms (RANDOM LOW FPS or some other search terms) only turns up unanswered questions on tech help websites. So I did the only thing I actually knew how to do and updated my graphics card driver. which, of course, did nothing.
so, with any help that I might get here, I'd like to figure out
1. what my exact problem is
2. how I can fix it
3. how to prevent it.
and I realize that I haven't really provided that much information, but I'm not terribly tech savvy, and don't actually even know where to start looking.

Download GPU-Z and monitor the video chip temperature. What operating system are you using?
Try the latest video driver from the NVIDIA web site.
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