Hello!
I recently got my first home-built gaming PC up and running. It works wonderfully, except when I play games (usually Skyrim, Sims 4, and Overwatch). It used to bring up a BSOD, but that was related to a USB driver and has since been fixed. Now it simply up and restarts and brings me straight to the wonderful "Windows did not shut down correctly" screen. It ONLY does it when I'm running a game and gives no warning beforehand.
My specs are as follows, copied and pasted from Speccy:
Operating System
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit SP1
CPU
AMD Phenom II X4 840 22 °C
Propus 45nm Technology
RAM
12.0GB Single-Channel DDR3 @ 666MHz (9-9-9-24)
Motherboard
MSI 970A-G43 PLUS (MS-7974) (CPU 1) 30 °C
Graphics
2260W (1920x1080@60Hz)
ASUS VS228 (1920x1080@60Hz)
2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 (EVGA) 34 °C
Storage
698GB Western Digital WDC WD75 00AAKS-00RBA0 SATA Disk Device (SATA) 32 °C
698GB Western Digital WDC WD75 00AAKS-00RBA0 SATA Disk Device (SATA) 33 °C
Optical Drives
No optical disk drives detected
Audio
NVIDIA Virtual Audio Device (Wave Extensible) (WDM)
As you can see, this thing is pretty much a melting pot of all sorts of different things, some of it a little outdated at that, but nonetheless, everything works fine aside from the rebooting. I suspect my issue may be with the memory being single-channel running at 666MHz, but I wanted to get a second opinion from people who know what they're doing better than me.
EDIT: I also forgot to mention that I'm using a 1000W PSU
I recently got my first home-built gaming PC up and running. It works wonderfully, except when I play games (usually Skyrim, Sims 4, and Overwatch). It used to bring up a BSOD, but that was related to a USB driver and has since been fixed. Now it simply up and restarts and brings me straight to the wonderful "Windows did not shut down correctly" screen. It ONLY does it when I'm running a game and gives no warning beforehand.
My specs are as follows, copied and pasted from Speccy:
Operating System
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit SP1
CPU
AMD Phenom II X4 840 22 °C
Propus 45nm Technology
RAM
12.0GB Single-Channel DDR3 @ 666MHz (9-9-9-24)
Motherboard
MSI 970A-G43 PLUS (MS-7974) (CPU 1) 30 °C
Graphics
2260W (1920x1080@60Hz)
ASUS VS228 (1920x1080@60Hz)
2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 (EVGA) 34 °C
Storage
698GB Western Digital WDC WD75 00AAKS-00RBA0 SATA Disk Device (SATA) 32 °C
698GB Western Digital WDC WD75 00AAKS-00RBA0 SATA Disk Device (SATA) 33 °C
Optical Drives
No optical disk drives detected
Audio
NVIDIA Virtual Audio Device (Wave Extensible) (WDM)
As you can see, this thing is pretty much a melting pot of all sorts of different things, some of it a little outdated at that, but nonetheless, everything works fine aside from the rebooting. I suspect my issue may be with the memory being single-channel running at 666MHz, but I wanted to get a second opinion from people who know what they're doing better than me.
EDIT: I also forgot to mention that I'm using a 1000W PSU