- Dec 15, 2012
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I have been going through some strange crashing that I deduce is Graphics Card related. Computer completely freezes up with a concurrent repeating sound clip. I figured my 6-year-old 8800 GTX was just dying due to its extremely high temperatures so I replaced it with a HD Radeon 7750 only to discover I was still crashing in the same way. I can only assume now that I must be bottlenecking because my CPU is pretty much crap. Well, here are my specs… tell me what you think:
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ (I’ve never overclocked it so it sits at 2.41 GHz)
Motherboard: ABIT Fatal1ty AN8-SLI 939 NVIDIA nForce4
RAM: 2GB (2 x 1GB) PC3200 OCZ 200 MHz and 2GB (2 x 1GB) PC2700 Micron 166 MHz (Crashing occurred before the addition of the Micron memory)
Video Card: Crashed with Both the GeForce 8800 GTX and AMD Radeon HD 7750
CD Drive: Hitachi GCC-H10N 48x40x48 CD-RW/16x DVD-ROM SATA
Hard Drives: Seagate 80GB SATA Hard Drive ST3808110AS (Used only for operating system) and Western Digital 250GB WD2500JS-00NCB1 (Used for all of my programs and games)
PSU: COOLMAX CP-500T 500W
Fans: Five (5) 120mm fans, One (1) 200mm fan and One (1) Antec Spot Cool (It was positioned on the 8800 GTX now it’s positioned over my RAM)
Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate x86
Shoot me some ideas and let me know if you need more information.
EDIT:
Well I just tested my FPS while running Diablo III… at 800 x 600 on low settings with “Low FX” option selected I was running around 30 FPS. While at 1680 x 1050 on max settings, I was running around 30 FPS. Well crap, I think that is definitive. Now the real question becomes, how do I fix it? Can I fix it and can I do it in a cost effective way? My budget is pretty much the cost of the Radeon HD 7750 so around 130 bucks. Is it possible?
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ (I’ve never overclocked it so it sits at 2.41 GHz)
Motherboard: ABIT Fatal1ty AN8-SLI 939 NVIDIA nForce4
RAM: 2GB (2 x 1GB) PC3200 OCZ 200 MHz and 2GB (2 x 1GB) PC2700 Micron 166 MHz (Crashing occurred before the addition of the Micron memory)
Video Card: Crashed with Both the GeForce 8800 GTX and AMD Radeon HD 7750
CD Drive: Hitachi GCC-H10N 48x40x48 CD-RW/16x DVD-ROM SATA
Hard Drives: Seagate 80GB SATA Hard Drive ST3808110AS (Used only for operating system) and Western Digital 250GB WD2500JS-00NCB1 (Used for all of my programs and games)
PSU: COOLMAX CP-500T 500W
Fans: Five (5) 120mm fans, One (1) 200mm fan and One (1) Antec Spot Cool (It was positioned on the 8800 GTX now it’s positioned over my RAM)
Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate x86
Shoot me some ideas and let me know if you need more information.
EDIT:
Well I just tested my FPS while running Diablo III… at 800 x 600 on low settings with “Low FX” option selected I was running around 30 FPS. While at 1680 x 1050 on max settings, I was running around 30 FPS. Well crap, I think that is definitive. Now the real question becomes, how do I fix it? Can I fix it and can I do it in a cost effective way? My budget is pretty much the cost of the Radeon HD 7750 so around 130 bucks. Is it possible?
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