- Sep 12, 2013
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Problem: My computer would slow down to the point of no return and freeze under certain conditions.
Condition: During Gaming
Additional Info: I'm playing a game of TF2, Killing Floor 2, GTA V. Then out of nowhere after a few hours of gaming (sometimes less) the game would freeze then resume but with stuttering then freeze again permanently until I shut off the process manually. Sometimes the computer stays in the slow state until a restart but it only happened twice so far. When the game freezes, or at least proceeds to freeze, the game itself would either stop rendering the world correctly, objects become invisible, or I have the poor mans wallhack, except I can't do anything and the game is frozen. In Killing Floor 2, the screen goes blue, meaning nothing is being rendered anymore (the blue is from the fog, depending on map you're playing in)
My old motherboard was an ASRock AM3 Mobo, I don't recall the exact model name. And the CPU was an AMD Phenom II X4 945 Deneb 3.0 GHz.
Current Rig:
[NEW] Intel Core i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz
Threading 1 CPU - 4 Cores - 8 Threads
Frequency 4300.54 MHz (43 * 99.98 MHz)
Architecture Haswell (22 nm)
CPUID / Stepping 6.C.3 / 6.3C (C0)
CPU Extensions MMX, SSE, EM64T, VT-x, AES, AVX, AVX2, FMA3
Caches L1 : 128 KB / L2 : 1024 KB / L3 : 8192 KB
Microcode 0x000001C
Max. TDP 88 Watts
Temperature 47°C
Voltage 0.128 Volts
Type Stock
Motherboard
[NEW] Model: MSI Z97 GAMING 7 (MS-7916)
BIOS American Megatrends Inc. - V1.8 - 12/24/2014
CPU Socket Socket 1150 LGA
North Bridge Intel Haswell rev 06
South Bridge Intel Z97 rev 00
Memory (RAM)
Size8192 MB
Type DDR3-1333 - Dual Channel
Frequency 666.8 MHz (1:5)
Timings 9-9-9-24
Slot #1 ModuleA-Data Technology - 4096 MB (10700)
Slot #2 ModuleKingston - 4096 MB (10700)
Graphic Card (GPU)
GPU TypeNVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 (549 MHz)
VRAM Size 2048 MB (3004 MHz)
Miscellaneous
Windows Version Windows 7 Ultimate Edition 64-bit
Windows Subver SP1 (Build 7601)
For me to get my computer working I'd have to switch my HDD to IDE instead of AHCI, otherwise I'll get a BSoD on startup. Everything else works fine aside from that, I even ran Prime95 to see if something was wrong with my cpu and it passed the tests.
I really do not want to reinstall windows at all. BUT I will upgrade if need be (Waiting for Windows 10).
What I will be doing as we speak is reinstall my graphics drivers from scratch. I also uninstalled my old unused drivers so they don't conflict as the new ones were automatically installed on the computer and working fine(that and I used the provided CD that came with the mobo).
Condition: During Gaming
Additional Info: I'm playing a game of TF2, Killing Floor 2, GTA V. Then out of nowhere after a few hours of gaming (sometimes less) the game would freeze then resume but with stuttering then freeze again permanently until I shut off the process manually. Sometimes the computer stays in the slow state until a restart but it only happened twice so far. When the game freezes, or at least proceeds to freeze, the game itself would either stop rendering the world correctly, objects become invisible, or I have the poor mans wallhack, except I can't do anything and the game is frozen. In Killing Floor 2, the screen goes blue, meaning nothing is being rendered anymore (the blue is from the fog, depending on map you're playing in)
My old motherboard was an ASRock AM3 Mobo, I don't recall the exact model name. And the CPU was an AMD Phenom II X4 945 Deneb 3.0 GHz.
Current Rig:
[NEW] Intel Core i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz
Threading 1 CPU - 4 Cores - 8 Threads
Frequency 4300.54 MHz (43 * 99.98 MHz)
Architecture Haswell (22 nm)
CPUID / Stepping 6.C.3 / 6.3C (C0)
CPU Extensions MMX, SSE, EM64T, VT-x, AES, AVX, AVX2, FMA3
Caches L1 : 128 KB / L2 : 1024 KB / L3 : 8192 KB
Microcode 0x000001C
Max. TDP 88 Watts
Temperature 47°C
Voltage 0.128 Volts
Type Stock
Motherboard
[NEW] Model: MSI Z97 GAMING 7 (MS-7916)
BIOS American Megatrends Inc. - V1.8 - 12/24/2014
CPU Socket Socket 1150 LGA
North Bridge Intel Haswell rev 06
South Bridge Intel Z97 rev 00
Memory (RAM)
Size8192 MB
Type DDR3-1333 - Dual Channel
Frequency 666.8 MHz (1:5)
Timings 9-9-9-24
Slot #1 ModuleA-Data Technology - 4096 MB (10700)
Slot #2 ModuleKingston - 4096 MB (10700)
Graphic Card (GPU)
GPU TypeNVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 (549 MHz)
VRAM Size 2048 MB (3004 MHz)
Miscellaneous
Windows Version Windows 7 Ultimate Edition 64-bit
Windows Subver SP1 (Build 7601)
For me to get my computer working I'd have to switch my HDD to IDE instead of AHCI, otherwise I'll get a BSoD on startup. Everything else works fine aside from that, I even ran Prime95 to see if something was wrong with my cpu and it passed the tests.
I really do not want to reinstall windows at all. BUT I will upgrade if need be (Waiting for Windows 10).
What I will be doing as we speak is reinstall my graphics drivers from scratch. I also uninstalled my old unused drivers so they don't conflict as the new ones were automatically installed on the computer and working fine(that and I used the provided CD that came with the mobo).
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