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Freezing occurs when playing heavy games

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  • Crash
  • Total War
  • ARMA2
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  • Computers
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October 26, 2013 6:08:06 PM

Download a stress test program for your CPU and run it (Prime95 Small FFTs test or IntelBurnTest).

If that doesn't expose any issues, dial back the core and memory clocks of the GPU about 50-100 MHz and see if the problems continue to occur.
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October 26, 2013 6:57:45 PM

When playing games such as ARMA2, Total War: Rome 2 and others like them, ranging from a few seconds to several minutes, a crash occurs, there are no ("Not Responding") or other signs of crash. But simply the entire system just freezes, and plays a slight white noise for a second or so through whatever audio device I'm using (Headphones or PC Speakers).

The only way to get back to the computer being alive is by powering it down manually (Holding the button down, or unplugging) I've looked at my GPU temperatures and they're ranging around 80C

Specs:

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770k CPU @ 3.50GHz - 3.90GHz (Intel Boost)
Gigabyte Z77M-D3H Motherboard
120GG OCZ-AGILITY3 SSD
SAMSUNG HD103SI HDD 1TB
MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 2GB

16GB DDR3 RAM
Memory Type - DDR3
Memory Size - 16 GBytes
Channels - Dual
Memory Frequency - 672.6 MHz (1:5)
CAS# latency (CL) - 9.0
RAS# to CAS# delay (tRCD) 9
RAS# Precharge (tRP) - 9
Cycle Time (tRAS) - 24
Command Rate (CR) - 2T

NOTES: I've tried updating my NVIDIA Drivers to no avail.

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October 26, 2013 6:36:59 PM

ihog said:
Download a stress test program for your CPU and run it (Prime95 Small FFTs test or IntelBurnTest).

If that doesn't expose any issues, dial back the core and memory clocks of the GPU about 50-100 MHz and see if the problems continue to occur.


By the way I took a picture of the screen when the computer froze


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October 26, 2013 6:59:23 PM

What power supply are you using? You don't mention it. Looking at the top few lines of that image there voltages look VERY suspect.
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October 26, 2013 7:41:39 PM

Often you can't trust software to be truly accurate, you might want to pop into the bios and have a look at your voltages there (when not under stress). The +3.3, +5 and +12v lines seem really low. It looks like the CPU is okay, but I wonder if you are getting serious droop on those lines when you're gaming. I wouldn't be surprised if the memory voltage might be low too. If the PSU isn't that old you might try sending these screen shots to OCZ... I think you might need a replacement.
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October 26, 2013 8:16:40 PM

GavinLeigh said:
Often you can't trust software to be truly accurate, you might want to pop into the bios and have a look at your voltages there (when not under stress). The +3.3, +5 and +12v lines seem really low. It looks like the CPU is okay, but I wonder if you are getting serious droop on those lines when you're gaming. I wouldn't be surprised if the memory voltage might be low too. If the PSU isn't that old you might try sending these screen shots to OCZ... I think you might need a replacement.


Unsure which one I was supposed to check, so here's a few






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October 26, 2013 8:28:43 PM

Well those voltages look okay in the bios. I looked at the revision of that bios and it's a very early revision. I recommend you upgrade to the latest version... which I think is F13 (not a beta). There's just a chance that might help.

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=...

I'm guessing that the only time you have these issues is when gaming?
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