Okay. So my friend decided to show me what pc gaming was like and the very second I played with the mouse and keyboard, I knew what I wanted. I built my very first (budget) gaming pc about a week or two ago.
The problem I'm having is that when I play games such as Counter Strike: Global Offensive, Team Fortress 2, Blacklight Retribution, all of the Call of Duties, and even Minecraft, my computer gets the BSOD with various errors. If it doesn't crash, the game will freeze or even crash. I also have been getting a ton of "windows manager has stopped working" errors and it closes all of my windows. The only time the computer seems to crash is when there is a load. So I have reason to believe this is being caused by the PSU. Please let me know what you guys think. I Don't want to spend $45 just for my repair shop to put the PC on their bench #and they won't be able to even open it up for almost a week.#
I've heard a few things. It could be my RAM, my PSU, or a bent pin on my CPU. The last option stated #bent pin# is not a possibility because I have checked and they're all "straight as a pin" haha.
PC Specs:
CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Deneb 3.4GHz
GPU: EVGA GeForce 550ti 1gb
MOBO:ASUS M4A88T-M
RAM: 8gb G-Skill Ripjaw DDR3
PSU: CX600 600w ATX12v
HDD: Western Digital Blue 750gb 7200rpm
Case: AzzA Salano 1000
Thanks everyone for your time. I would just like to get it right since I am pretty new at building PC's.
The problem I'm having is that when I play games such as Counter Strike: Global Offensive, Team Fortress 2, Blacklight Retribution, all of the Call of Duties, and even Minecraft, my computer gets the BSOD with various errors. If it doesn't crash, the game will freeze or even crash. I also have been getting a ton of "windows manager has stopped working" errors and it closes all of my windows. The only time the computer seems to crash is when there is a load. So I have reason to believe this is being caused by the PSU. Please let me know what you guys think. I Don't want to spend $45 just for my repair shop to put the PC on their bench #and they won't be able to even open it up for almost a week.#
I've heard a few things. It could be my RAM, my PSU, or a bent pin on my CPU. The last option stated #bent pin# is not a possibility because I have checked and they're all "straight as a pin" haha.
PC Specs:
CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Deneb 3.4GHz
GPU: EVGA GeForce 550ti 1gb
MOBO:ASUS M4A88T-M
RAM: 8gb G-Skill Ripjaw DDR3
PSU: CX600 600w ATX12v
HDD: Western Digital Blue 750gb 7200rpm
Case: AzzA Salano 1000
Thanks everyone for your time. I would just like to get it right since I am pretty new at building PC's.