PC Lockup

	Duration: 04:49 minutes Upload Time: 2007-12-20 16:35:54
THE PROBLEM When I am playing the following games for any amount of time the games will eventually lock up my entire PC: Unreal Tournament 3, World of Warcraft, Bioshock, and Crysis. These games will NOT lockup my PC: Warcraft 3, HL1 Engine games, Call of Duty 4. THE SPECS NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT Superclocked Intel Core 2 Quad Q600 2.40ghz Corsair 520w PSU Creative Soundblaster Audigy SE 4GB G-Skill RAM (tested w/ memtest86 v 1.70) Intel BLKD975XBX2KR LGA 775 Intel 975X ATX Intel Motherboard ATX Mid Tower case 2 fans Windows XP Pro SP2 WHAT I'VE DONE SO FAR * I have run memtest86 on the RAM and it comes out clean. * Installed the latest sound and video drivers from the respective companies. * Reset my BIOS to its default settings * Set my video cards fan speed to manual and set to 100% (NOTE: This makes games lockup the PC faster!) * Checked how much power I am suppose to have from here: http://www.extreme.outervision.com/p...ulatorlite.jsp It said 472w. My PSU is 520w and the video card is overclocked (not sure if that adds much) * Cried * Cried again
Comments
q9450  2008-04-04 19:31:30 750watt is pure overkill __________________________________________________
Spadejoker  2008-03-22 13:37:17 My old ass vaio had a crap power supply that ended up being the problem. Put in a temporary one and no probs. Though it was memory before. Right now i gto a 750 watt with 4 rails of 25 amps. __________________________________________________
CTTVus  2008-03-22 00:16:32 Turned out to be a bad video card. __________________________________________________
8ic  2008-02-26 04:49:20 Also nonsense comment. His Corsair is just fine, it offers 18A on every rail and if more is needed it will become availble since it uses power sharing. His corsair has also the most positive comments at Newegg of any PSU, so next time don't talk about things you don't understand. __________________________________________________
8ic  2008-02-26 04:44:58 Dumb fuck, 680W is way too much overkill for a machine like this. __________________________________________________