Freezing while gaming

[zlojack]

I rejigged the OC. Instead of 206x19 I went to 196x20 and that seems to have worked for a while with no crashing.

The other thing I did was turn the fans up to 100% instead of 80%. I know my airflow is crap so maybe even 80% wasn't enough on the cards.

I'll give it a good run when I get home from dinner and see what happens.

EE, I understand the Crysis thing, but Warhead seems fine while FEAR is the game that's freezing on me right now. Crysis wouldn't start so I uninstalled it.

I'm also going to try what Dave says and check out my DX. With all these different games trying to install DX, that could be a problem too. I know FEAR won't install unless you install DX9c with it.

PS: Thanks to all who've chimed in to help so far!

[zlojack]

Bleh...

The 20 multi is definitely not an option. 3.9GHz 206x19 is stable in any test I throw at it. 196x20 crashes during the first five LinX runs. I'm going to try 186x21 now.

[zlojack]

Ok...triple post here.

Looks like the RAM might have been the culprit. Just did an hour at 186x21 with no problems.

[zlojack]

I'm an idiot.

My HDMI cable wasn't plugged in all the way on my monitor.