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Help me toms hardware! Freezing, not overheating.

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July 3, 2013 11:31:58 AM

So hello there toms hardware, I have been looking around for answers to my problem and it doesn't seem to be here. (probably is just not enough digging i guess) so a few weeks ago, I installed a corsair h100i everything was fine for a week, then while playing video games my computer would completly freeze. First i thought I may have installed the cpu cooler wrong, went over everything, everything on the cooler itself was working great. So then I move on to an over heating problem. Yes its summer but my house is cool, and my processor would never go over 45 C (max temp 72) and my GPU wouldnt go over 65 C.(Max temp 85 c) so it wasnt a heat problem. So, once again moved on to a ram problem ran mem test on both of my sticks of ram individually, no problems there.

Sorry should of mentioned it was my cpu was oc'd to 3.6 from 2.66 but i un clocked it after my computer froze the first time. and reset my cmos and even pulled battery out of the mother board to get any remnace of my overclock gone.

Anyways, though it may be a power problem from putting a new big cooler in my pc, removed the h100i and put in old cooler. Still did it. Did a full clean install of windows. Still does it. So now im stumped!! here is my computer below

Cpu: i5-750 2.66ghz
Motherboard: GA-P55-UD3R
GPU: Sapphire HD 5850
Ram: Corsair XMS 2x2g DDR3 1300
Storage: 2 160g internal seagate HDD and 1tb external
Power: coolermaster 525

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July 3, 2013 11:37:08 AM

i had a similar issue from my ram voltage being set too high. i dont know for sure that this is your issue, but that ram is 1.65v ram. i had to set mine at 1.5 to get it to run stable(it was 1.5v ram, but for some reason my mobo was defaulting to 1.59) . give that a try and see if it helps.
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July 3, 2013 12:32:07 PM

Definatly wasnt that, it was set lower than my ram voltage and changing it had no affect. Running occt on my powersupply and gpu right now, will see what happens i guess. Could sound drivers freeze a computer?
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