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Hello everyone. It's been a long time since I've been here. As of late I'm having some issues with my Gaming PC and I thought perhaps I throw something together to see if anyone can come up with something I haven't. So here it goes....
About a month ago I decided it was time to upgrade a few components of my PC. I ordered some Gskill Ripjaws 16gig. DDR3 1600 (kit). I also ordered a Visiontek HD 6970. Yesterday I installed a Seasonic 1000w platinum PSU.
Original specs:
AMD PII 955 x4
Gigabyte 770t USB3 board
8 gig of gskillripjaws ddr3 1600 (kit)
Sapphire 4850X2
4 HDD's
1 Optical drive
1 blu-ray drive
650w Corsair PSU (yellow label)
1 x-fi sound card.
4 USB devices
Windows 7 home prem.
So... All original components everything was just fine. No issues at all.
Then Battlefield 3 comes out and I've got a little money to upgrade. So first I buy the 16g of ripjaws. Get them install them. Still no issues. Everything is great. I'm playing BF3 no issues. But, of course I want to play in dx11 so I order the Radeon 6970HD. I get the card, install it, play for a few weeks it's fantastic no issues. Then out of the blue, BF3 starts freezing / crashing / rebooting. Basically what happens is I'll be playing BF3 - sometimes 5 minutes, sometimes 1 hour and boom it freezes with some odd looking screen, not even the actually game image frozen, it's either white or red or some odd color with straight lines, then reboots.
So I check the temps during gaming, GPU is about 60C tops. CPU is 55F tops. All other temps look normal. So I think about it and think, perhaps this new videocard combined with all the other components is drawing too much juice from the PSU (650w). So I order a new PSU. Get the PSU installed last night, starts right up load windows. Boom Crashes. Then when it shut off, I can see some lights on "sound card, power button, HDD lights" but it seems like the PSU is clicking... which I think is the fan. Seems the PC won't post. So I unplug PSU and let it sit. Try it again and it starts up, loads windows and everything seems ok. I played BF3 for about 2 hours today. No crashing. Took a break, then later played for 20 minutes.. BOOM Crash. Now before anyone thinks it's BF3. I've tried several other games too "Skyrim, Dirt 3, crysis 2" it crashes the same with all of them. I just happen to play BF3 most.
So I'm thinking come on. So I go get my 4850X2 and install it. Launch BF3, play for about 10 minutes and BOOM CRASH. Same type crash as other card.
So I think I can rule out the actual video cards themselves. So I think, let me put my old ram back in. I take out the 16gig, put the 8gig back in, launch BF3, played for 20 minutes, BOOM CRASH - same thing AGAIN.
So now I'm wondering could it be the motherboard? is it the HDD windows / bf3 is installed on? Could it possibly be the sound card is bad or going bad and causing the PC to crash during gaming. And just to mention it, it really ONLY crashes during gaming. Desktop, web, etc... never crashes.
Sorry for the long winded post, But I just wanted to get everything in. Anyone at all have any ideas?
About a month ago I decided it was time to upgrade a few components of my PC. I ordered some Gskill Ripjaws 16gig. DDR3 1600 (kit). I also ordered a Visiontek HD 6970. Yesterday I installed a Seasonic 1000w platinum PSU.
Original specs:
AMD PII 955 x4
Gigabyte 770t USB3 board
8 gig of gskillripjaws ddr3 1600 (kit)
Sapphire 4850X2
4 HDD's
1 Optical drive
1 blu-ray drive
650w Corsair PSU (yellow label)
1 x-fi sound card.
4 USB devices
Windows 7 home prem.
So... All original components everything was just fine. No issues at all.
Then Battlefield 3 comes out and I've got a little money to upgrade. So first I buy the 16g of ripjaws. Get them install them. Still no issues. Everything is great. I'm playing BF3 no issues. But, of course I want to play in dx11 so I order the Radeon 6970HD. I get the card, install it, play for a few weeks it's fantastic no issues. Then out of the blue, BF3 starts freezing / crashing / rebooting. Basically what happens is I'll be playing BF3 - sometimes 5 minutes, sometimes 1 hour and boom it freezes with some odd looking screen, not even the actually game image frozen, it's either white or red or some odd color with straight lines, then reboots.
So I check the temps during gaming, GPU is about 60C tops. CPU is 55F tops. All other temps look normal. So I think about it and think, perhaps this new videocard combined with all the other components is drawing too much juice from the PSU (650w). So I order a new PSU. Get the PSU installed last night, starts right up load windows. Boom Crashes. Then when it shut off, I can see some lights on "sound card, power button, HDD lights" but it seems like the PSU is clicking... which I think is the fan. Seems the PC won't post. So I unplug PSU and let it sit. Try it again and it starts up, loads windows and everything seems ok. I played BF3 for about 2 hours today. No crashing. Took a break, then later played for 20 minutes.. BOOM Crash. Now before anyone thinks it's BF3. I've tried several other games too "Skyrim, Dirt 3, crysis 2" it crashes the same with all of them. I just happen to play BF3 most.
So I'm thinking come on. So I go get my 4850X2 and install it. Launch BF3, play for about 10 minutes and BOOM CRASH. Same type crash as other card.
So I think I can rule out the actual video cards themselves. So I think, let me put my old ram back in. I take out the 16gig, put the 8gig back in, launch BF3, played for 20 minutes, BOOM CRASH - same thing AGAIN.
So now I'm wondering could it be the motherboard? is it the HDD windows / bf3 is installed on? Could it possibly be the sound card is bad or going bad and causing the PC to crash during gaming. And just to mention it, it really ONLY crashes during gaming. Desktop, web, etc... never crashes.
Sorry for the long winded post, But I just wanted to get everything in. Anyone at all have any ideas?