Recent content by Jensenator

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    Watercooled PC shuts down either at login screen or shortly after

    I own a watercooled PC running the Thermaltake Bigwater 760is watercooling system. Currently, I only have the CPU being cooled by this setup. My build is at least 2 1/2 years old, running a Phenom 9950 and an Asus M3A78 Pro MoBo with 6 Gigs 1066 DDR2 RAM. I used to have it OC'd to 3.0GHz up...
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    ANY game on custom built high-end gaming rig crashes, very frustrated!!!

    Apparently I had a n00b moment and forgot that when my CPU started to act up after the year and a half at 3.0GHz, I backed it down to 2.87....which is still overclocked.. Someone noticed that on one of the other forums I post on (which is a car forum in the off topic section) that on my specs I...
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    ANY game on custom built high-end gaming rig crashes, very frustrated!!!

    Okay: Did some homework and some research...I think my CPU is failing, specifically the 2nd core on my Phenom X4 9950 Black Edition....:| The reason why I suspect this is a hardware problem and not a driver issue is because of the following: Called the shop, stating my above problem. The tech...
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    ANY game on custom built high-end gaming rig crashes, very frustrated!!!

    Clarification: the store RECOMMENDED me the card and I bought it through them. It took 3 days to show up and I was there the day they put it in when it was coming out of the wrapping, so there was no funny business (I hope). For an older processor like this, what's a reasonable durable and...
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    ANY game on custom built high-end gaming rig crashes, very frustrated!!!

    Motherboard? I never thought about about that. But how would I even begin to diagnose a motherboard? Everything SEEMS fine, it's not like the whole system is crashing altogether, just while gaming. I wouldn't doubt it though, it's going on 2 1/2 years old. But how can a motherboard be bad when...
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    ANY game on custom built high-end gaming rig crashes, very frustrated!!!

    Nope. It was this way on stock clock. I will admit that I am running Asus SmartDoctor, which is a softclock utility, and I have it on AUTO 3d game mode (which MAYBE OC's it like 8-10 MHz)....but even before I had that installed and was running purely on ATI catalyst manager, everything was crashing.
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    ANY game on custom built high-end gaming rig crashes, very frustrated!!!

    Hello everyone, this is my first post. I am not new to building and tinkering with gaming PC's, but this problem has me scratching my head royally. Mine I know is older but it will still eat through any current game on the market on high settings and keep up the pace with brand new...