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Problem with gaming computer! please help

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July 28, 2013 5:13:26 PM

I have just bought a second hand gaming computer and when playing games in higher settings it just freezes completely and i have to manually restart the computer. The person i bought it off said it was completely fine before he factory reset it for me and it trying to help me find out the problem as-well but i am completely stuck...

I dont know much about PC's but the setup is:

Asus p5k-e/wifi-ap mother board with built in wifi,
thermaltake pc case,
intel core 2 quad 2.40ghz x4 extreme,
8gb ddr 2 memory/ram,
2x 500gb sata hdds 1tb together,
sata dvdrw drive,
GAINWARD GTX 1gb graphics with hdmi port full hd,
ocz technology 700watt psu,
64bit op system,
windows 7 home

i changed the ram as my friend and the person i bought it off said it could be a ram problem and he gave me some more rams (or whatever you call it) and i got a friend who knows allot more about computers to show me what slots to use and so on with my motherbored but still there was no change. I uninstalled all the nvidia drivers and re installed them but again no change.

i can play games on lower qualities and it works fine but sometimes there may be something like a flicker very rarely! also i can play assassins creed completely fine with no problem but other games like counter strike global offence just freeze after about 5 minutes.

could someone please give me an idea on what this could be?

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July 28, 2013 6:22:34 PM

Try to monitor your cpu/gpu temperature. After a certain heat threshold the system freezes to protect itself.
July 30, 2013 6:56:55 AM

mmiquegami said:
Try to monitor your cpu/gpu temperature. After a certain heat threshold the system freezes to protect itself.


i always check the temperatures and they are always at 40-50 maybe 60c highest! so i dont think its that
July 30, 2013 8:45:10 AM

Hmm, discarded the heat issue, maybe a bad video memory block since it's happening only when high settings are used and, consequetly, more memory is used.

I've never used but heard of a video memory stress test tool(just google it) , maybe you could try that.

Alternatively, test the gpu in another machine and see if the error persists.
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