James Bond
Diamond Member
This is a problem I've been trying to gradually work out for a few months now.
You can check out my rig in my signature.
My computer has always run decent, nothing amazing, nothing too bad. It has never overclocked well at all, even though I have hardware that probably should OC decent.. but then again that is something that defeinitely isn't gurenteed so I never really worried about that.
My problem is that in most games I occasionally get LONG skips. For instance, in BF2, once every 10 minutes or so my computer will completely lag out for about 15-30 seconds and just repeat the same sound over and over (we all know what I mean I hope). The same thing happens in WoW and even in Counter-Strike some times. Alternatively, sometimes on WoW and BF2 my computer will just completely restart randomely with a BSOD. These are problems that only occur in games.
Additionally, BF2 just doesn't run as well as it should. I have friends with computers far less as good as mine that run much better on the same settings.
I've tried everything I can think of. I've installed and re-installed chipset drivers over and over, version after version. I've installed different versions of my BIOS. I've put my CPU and GPU to stock settings (although they are currently overclocked very slightly: my CPU is 220x11=2.4 and my GPU is 380/1030 [stock is 370/1000]).
I have great cooling in my computer. My CPU rarely goes above 52C, and my video card is defeintely cool enough.
At this point I'm looking for ANYTHING to try. I'm going to attempt to run memtest tonight and see what happens there.
Thanks so much in advance, I really do appreciate everything.
Tyler Lucas
You can check out my rig in my signature.
My computer has always run decent, nothing amazing, nothing too bad. It has never overclocked well at all, even though I have hardware that probably should OC decent.. but then again that is something that defeinitely isn't gurenteed so I never really worried about that.
My problem is that in most games I occasionally get LONG skips. For instance, in BF2, once every 10 minutes or so my computer will completely lag out for about 15-30 seconds and just repeat the same sound over and over (we all know what I mean I hope). The same thing happens in WoW and even in Counter-Strike some times. Alternatively, sometimes on WoW and BF2 my computer will just completely restart randomely with a BSOD. These are problems that only occur in games.
Additionally, BF2 just doesn't run as well as it should. I have friends with computers far less as good as mine that run much better on the same settings.
I've tried everything I can think of. I've installed and re-installed chipset drivers over and over, version after version. I've installed different versions of my BIOS. I've put my CPU and GPU to stock settings (although they are currently overclocked very slightly: my CPU is 220x11=2.4 and my GPU is 380/1030 [stock is 370/1000]).
I have great cooling in my computer. My CPU rarely goes above 52C, and my video card is defeintely cool enough.
At this point I'm looking for ANYTHING to try. I'm going to attempt to run memtest tonight and see what happens there.
Thanks so much in advance, I really do appreciate everything.
Tyler Lucas
