Hi there,
So I recently built my first PC (specs to follow) and it's been working perfectly for watching movies/skype/internet etc. It's also had no problems with any kind of low end game - specifically "Banished" and "Plants and Zombies" lol. However, whenever I start playing anything a bit more intense, it works fine for about 10-30 minutes, and then freezes. I have to manually power it down, it doesn't do it by itself. I don't get any error messages or BSOD, just freezes. The games it's happened on so far are - "Shogun: Total War", "Fallout 4", "Portal 2" and "Star Wars: Force Unleashed 2".
Just one thing to note off the cuff - I'm not sure how to get my PC to show the temperatures etc whilst I'm playing, but I do have the BIOS set to make a sound when the CPU overheats and that sound has never happened.
Specs:
MOBO: Gigabyte Intel H170-D3HP
CPU: Intel i5-6600K 3.5Ghz
Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212X
RAM: Crucial DDR4 2133 Mt/s 4Gbx2
GPU: GeForce GTX 970
PSU: ANTEC 80+ BRONZE 550W
HDD: WD 1Tb Blue
SSD: Crucial BX200 240Gb
If there's any more you need to know, please ask!
Thanks in advance for any help!
So I recently built my first PC (specs to follow) and it's been working perfectly for watching movies/skype/internet etc. It's also had no problems with any kind of low end game - specifically "Banished" and "Plants and Zombies" lol. However, whenever I start playing anything a bit more intense, it works fine for about 10-30 minutes, and then freezes. I have to manually power it down, it doesn't do it by itself. I don't get any error messages or BSOD, just freezes. The games it's happened on so far are - "Shogun: Total War", "Fallout 4", "Portal 2" and "Star Wars: Force Unleashed 2".
Just one thing to note off the cuff - I'm not sure how to get my PC to show the temperatures etc whilst I'm playing, but I do have the BIOS set to make a sound when the CPU overheats and that sound has never happened.
Specs:
MOBO: Gigabyte Intel H170-D3HP
CPU: Intel i5-6600K 3.5Ghz
Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212X
RAM: Crucial DDR4 2133 Mt/s 4Gbx2
GPU: GeForce GTX 970
PSU: ANTEC 80+ BRONZE 550W
HDD: WD 1Tb Blue
SSD: Crucial BX200 240Gb
If there's any more you need to know, please ask!
Thanks in advance for any help!
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