My computer has been freezing during games, it just completely freezes and i have to hold the power button to turn it off. It freezes and i can't crtl-alt-del or anything, it even stops my media player. It first started when I was playing mass effect 3 and now it will do it during any game, mostly Eve Online.
Spec's
motherboard : Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 1.0
OS : windows 7 64-bit service pack 1
CPU : AMD FX-8120 8 core 3.1GHz
RAM : Crucial Ballistix 4GB x2 --8192MB (from dxdiag)
Graphic card : EVGA GTX 670 4GB SC (external exhaust)
PSU : Viotek Pro 850W (PS-VTK-850W-24PIN)
case : NZXT M59, it has 5 case fans
CPU fan : Coolermaster Hyper 101
recently changed the thermal paste and replaced with Arctic Silver Arctic Alumina Thermal Compound. (i saw someone else posted a similar problem with a similar rig and it stopped. he did other stuff too and i did that stuff except completely reinstall windows. )
I've updated BIOS, sound driver (realtek), got the newest Nvidia driver (clean install).
i run evga precision X and downclocked the graphic card a little bit since it's the superclocked edition. in CPUID hardware monitor the cpu runs max in the 70s C, and since when the computer freezes it gets shut off nothing will tell me what the last temp was before the freeze. I've check the event viewer thingy and it doesn't show anything for the freezes but it shows that i improperly shutoff the pc. I've noticed that when I have the game settings high the freeze is more likely to happen, Eve on low settings i can go a few days without one but everything on high at least once a day it freezes. Dualboxing did make it freeze faster a couple times. i can't even get through 1 multiplayer match in Mass Effect to the end, even if it's just by myself, so it will go about 15 minutes and freeze.
any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Spec's
motherboard : Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 1.0
OS : windows 7 64-bit service pack 1
CPU : AMD FX-8120 8 core 3.1GHz
RAM : Crucial Ballistix 4GB x2 --8192MB (from dxdiag)
Graphic card : EVGA GTX 670 4GB SC (external exhaust)
PSU : Viotek Pro 850W (PS-VTK-850W-24PIN)
case : NZXT M59, it has 5 case fans
CPU fan : Coolermaster Hyper 101
recently changed the thermal paste and replaced with Arctic Silver Arctic Alumina Thermal Compound. (i saw someone else posted a similar problem with a similar rig and it stopped. he did other stuff too and i did that stuff except completely reinstall windows. )
I've updated BIOS, sound driver (realtek), got the newest Nvidia driver (clean install).
i run evga precision X and downclocked the graphic card a little bit since it's the superclocked edition. in CPUID hardware monitor the cpu runs max in the 70s C, and since when the computer freezes it gets shut off nothing will tell me what the last temp was before the freeze. I've check the event viewer thingy and it doesn't show anything for the freezes but it shows that i improperly shutoff the pc. I've noticed that when I have the game settings high the freeze is more likely to happen, Eve on low settings i can go a few days without one but everything on high at least once a day it freezes. Dualboxing did make it freeze faster a couple times. i can't even get through 1 multiplayer match in Mass Effect to the end, even if it's just by myself, so it will go about 15 minutes and freeze.
any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.