Windows 7 Desktop completely locks up when playing Video Games

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aneil1998

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Hello,

Recently my desktop Crashes when playing video games. I ran Scans with NIS 2014 , MBAM, ESET Online Scanner. Also all updates are installed as of this post and GPU driver are up-to-date

SPECS:-
CPU: Intel Core i5 3570k OC'd to 4.3 GHZ
GPU: MSI Twin Frozr GTX 660 Gaming Edition
PSU: Aglier 800 watt (had this for 2 years)
RAM: 4GB DDR3 Kingston
2GB DDR3 Patriot(also had this for 2 years)
MOBO: ASrock Z77 Extreme 3
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 3TB 7200RPM
Hitachi 500GB 5400RPM
SSD: Kingston V300 120GB
CPU COOLER: Cooler Master Hyper 612
 
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aneil1998

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Just underclocked the Graphics Core by 20% . Will post with results. BTW It was after a prolonged period of time. Thanks for the help

Update:-

Had to underclock it an extra 10% and reduce memory clock by 20%. So far it is stable.
 
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Bratushka

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I had a similar issue and a tip from a fellow gamer led to the solution. He suggested I get a desktop widget to monitor GPU temperature and note what it said when my game crashed. (NOTE: I have 3 monitors so I could always keep it where I could see it.) I found one GPU was reaching the threshold temperature -206F- where to protect itself it slowed the clock down and sped the fan way up. It would happen randomly: sometimes hours, sometimes minutes. I checked my video card mfg site and saw that that temperature was indeed where the board went into protect mode and was crashing my game.

The solution was use a utility that allowed me to manually set my fan speed. I have EVGA cards and their utility was called Precision X. After I was able to speed my fans up to 85% I was able to achieve a 20 degree temperature reduction and it 100% solved my issue. Eventually the board croaked anyway- it had been running much hotter than its mate anyway so had issues from the get-go but it just took time to fully die. As far as I know every brand of GPU will have a compatible free utility although IMHO go to the GPU manufacturer first to look for one.

Still, Tea Urchin is absolutely right that a flaky or anemic power supply is a suspect as well and just a bad deal because it can damage other components under the right circumstances. Output power like guns and horsepower is better to have and not need than need and not have.

Sys Specs:

EVGA SLI3 MB,
EVGA GeForce GTX 580 X 2
Intel Core i7 6 core processor @ 3.33 GHz liquid cooled
24 GB RAM
240 GB SSD primary drive
1.5 TB 7200 RPM secondary drive
Cooler Master full tower
1500 watt power supply
Windows 7 64 bit
and more I'm too lazy to add....
 
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aneil1998

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Recently i found a spare power supply which i never used and i decided to run dual PSU Agiler 800Watt PSU as Main and A Omega 500ATX PSU as my GPU only PSU and it was working for sometime until My computer finally decided to lock up once again while gaming but this time it lasted for a few hours before locking up.

The only reason i am running Generic PSU's is because the Agiler was from My previous build and the Omega came with one of my cases.

 
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