I just built a new system but any game I play freezes or crashes intermittently. Sometimes i can play for over an hour before it happens sometimes as little as 5 mins. I usually don't need to totally reboot after the crash. Sometimes Ctrl-Alt-Del works and when I go back to the game it will unfreeze. But there are times where the game completely crashes to desktop or Id have to end its process on the task manager. My temperature is about 50-65C on high load (gaming), 40-46C idle. I have already tried older drivers and beta drivers to no avail. It has happened in all the games I play. Specs: GPU: ASUS ENGTX260 currently running on latest drivers 196.21 MB: ASUS Rampage II Gene CPU: Intel Core I7 920 RAM: 9gb DDR3 1066 SC: SB X-Fi xtremegamer fatal1ty pro PSU: 900watt Rocketfish RF-900WPS OS: Windows 7 Home Prem x64
My bet is on CPU or mem instability, not GPU. look up intel burn test, and run it for a while to see if your system is stable before blaming the GPU.
I just tried it. Results: Code: ---------------------------- IntelBurnTest v2.4 Created by AgentGOD ---------------------------- Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz Clock Speed: 2.15 GHz Active Physical Cores: 8 Total System Memory: 9207 MB Stress Level: Standard (1024 MB) Testing started on 2/13/2010 10:23:00 PM Time (s) Speed (GFlops) Result [22:23:32] 25.152 35.5394 3.313965e-002 [22:24:05] 25.991 34.3927 3.313965e-002 [22:24:37] 25.407 35.1821 3.313965e-002 [22:25:07] 23.306 38.3549 3.313965e-002 [22:25:39] 26.211 34.1028 3.313965e-002 [22:26:13] 26.678 33.5058 3.313965e-002 [22:26:43] 23.558 37.9437 3.313965e-002 [22:27:15] 26.204 34.1120 3.313965e-002 [22:27:48] 26.259 34.0409 3.313965e-002 [22:28:20] 25.603 34.9132 3.313965e-002 Testing ended on 2/13/2010 10:28:20 PM Test Result: Success. ---------------------------- Oh and another thing, I tried running 3dmark Vantage but can't get past the 2nd CPU test (PhysX test I think).
I just tried that. No dice. Still froze L4D2 after about 20mins. I was able to go back to the game after ctrl-alt-del and then going back though. On the upside I was able to overclock the memory to 1333mhz w/ 9-9-9 cas latency and its stable.