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Trevedic   07-06-2009 at 12:00:20 AM

It seems that most of the games I play seem to freeze/stutter after about 5 minutes of game-play. From there every couple of minutes the game freezes/stutters for about 10 seconds and continues to do so. And then at times it seems I can run certain games for a good hour or so before they freeze. I don't think there is any rime or reason to it.

Here are my system specs:

Intel Pentium Dual Core 2180 2.0 Ghz
3 GB DDR2 RAM
Nvidia 9500 GT 512MB RAM
Realtek Onboard Sound

Any help would be appreciated. This has been bothering me for quite some time now.

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It sounds like a cooling problem to me.

Is there dust buildup in your case or the vga card fan?

Open up the side panel and direct a house fan at the innards, forcing good cooling. If the problem goes away, there is a cooling issue.

Another possibility is an ageing or overheated psu which is not delivering good power.
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bdcrlsn   07-06-2009 at 12:26:42 AM

What kind of power supply do you have?

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xc0mmiex   07-06-2009 at 12:32:56 AM

download speedfan and run prime95 or orthos and monitor the CPU temp....

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geofelt   07-06-2009 at 02:16:29 AM
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It sounds like a cooling problem to me.

Is there dust buildup in your case or the vga card fan?

Open up the side panel and direct a house fan at the innards, forcing good cooling. If the problem goes away, there is a cooling issue.

Another possibility is an ageing or overheated psu which is not delivering good power.

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Trevedic   07-06-2009 at 05:37:26 AM

bdcrlsn wrote :

What kind of power supply do you have?



I can't remember the brand but it's a 500W power supply.

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Trevedic   07-06-2009 at 05:47:52 AM

xc0mmiex wrote :

download speedfan and run prime95 or orthos and monitor the CPU temp....



I ran both Speedfan and Orthos and both of my cores maintained a temp of roughly 67C according to Orthos.

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HundredIslandsBoy   07-06-2009 at 03:31:17 PM

If you're playing the latest 3D games, your system sounds normal to me. The CPU and GPU you have can't handle the latest 3D games.

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Trevedic   07-06-2009 at 09:42:49 PM

geofelt wrote :

It sounds like a cooling problem to me.

Is there dust buildup in your case or the vga card fan?

Open up the side panel and direct a house fan at the innards, forcing good cooling. If the problem goes away, there is a cooling issue.

Another possibility is an ageing or overheated psu which is not delivering good power.



I think it is an issue of overheating. I tried putting a house fan to it and was able to run Prototype for 3 hours straight which before I was unable to play 5 minutes without it stuttering.

Thanks for the help.

Now I just need to figure out how to permanently fix the overheating problem.

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Trevedic   07-06-2009 at 09:44:53 PM

HundredIslandsBoy wrote :

If you're playing the latest 3D games, your system sounds normal to me. The CPU and GPU you have can't handle the latest 3D games.



Haven't had any problems yet. :)

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serpent1202   07-06-2009 at 09:56:07 PM

67 degrees is insanely hot for that series chip.

Buy this.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6835233003

If you don't like push pins, buy the retention clip for another $10 but you'll have to take out your motherboard for installation. This will bring your temps down to between 25 - 40.

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Trevedic   07-07-2009 at 07:29:32 AM

serpent1202 wrote :

67 degrees is insanely hot for that series chip.

Buy this.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6835233003

If you don't like push pins, buy the retention clip for another $10 but you'll have to take out your motherboard for installation. This will bring your temps down to between 25 - 40.




Perfect. That's exactly what I am looking for. However, will it work with my motherboard? I'm not quite sure how to identify what I actually have though.

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