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I don't know if this helps any, but i did notice the last few times its done this, the mobo makes a quiet but unusual buzzing sound as it locks up. then it stops buzzing shortly after.

I've had the box for about 2 months now, it only started doing this about a month ago. I decided to format my drive last night, haven't had a chance to see if thats solved anything yet though. Its possible it could have just been a very very weird software oddity which could have been fixed with...

Hey there, I've been having some odd hard lock issues with some of my games on my new rig. Firstly, here are the specs: Asus A8N-SLI premium mobo AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 2.8ghz 2 sticks of 1 gig Kingston ram (these are on loan from the computer shop while my Corsair Xms 3500LLPRO gets replaced...

Marcdaddy, try pumping rounds into a pool of water see if ye slow down at all :).

Ok, I've been doing some testing of FEAR. running at 1024x 768 since it doesn't support 1280x1024, 4xAA, 16x AF max everything, just no soft shadows (it won't let me turn that on) The FPS ranges from 60-250 depending on whats going on. the only time it slows down noticeably is with certain...

Hrm i am not sure if its my g-cards that are the bottleneck. Take city of villains for example. i'd be getting 25-40 frames while jumping around the city with 4x AA 16x AF, 1280x1024, max texture etc etc. if i turned off AA and AF etc, no change in framerate. I don't know if its just a quirk of...

Wow, thanks for the quick replies :). I did turn vsync on, I was having huge tearing issues with it off. Anyway it just seems to me that in most of the games i have tested out so far, Quake, FEAR, BF2, City of Villains, WoW etc that i should be getting better performance out of it. I will...

Hey there, i recently built a new system with: Athlon 64 FX-57, 2 gigs of Corsair XMS 3500LLPRO, Asus A8N-SLI premium mobo, 2X BFG 7800 GTX OCs in SLI, Audigy 4 PRO and a 7200 250 GB maxtor harddrive. I ran 3dmark 05 several times and I get around 12700- 13000. The problem is i have read...