Games crashing

[Buyaboat]

I bought a new computer a couple months ago and had some problems with it. Games were crashing when they shouldnt of and I was getting very annoyed. In the end I tried taking out one of the sticks of RAM to see if one of them was faulty. Neither was but i did find that games didnt crash when i used only 1 sticks of RAM so i just used one for a while and everything was great. However now someone told me to up the voltage for the RAM to 2.1 volts so i could have 2 again. It has been working fine for the last couple of weeks but today Company of Heroes has been crashing half way through a game. It has done this a few times today so i'm a bit worried. So thats why im posting. Can someone please tell me why my games are crashing when they shouldn't. My computer specs are :

motherboard: Gigabyte GA-P35-S3G

processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600

graphics card : gigabyte ATI 4850 HD 512mb

Case: Antec Three Hundred Case

Power Supply: 580W HiperPower

Hard drive : Western digital 320GB 16mb cache

dvd writer drive: Samsung

RAM: 2GB (2x1GB) Corsair TwinX XMS2, DDR2 PC2-6400 (800), 240 Pins, Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 4-4-4-12


For those of you thinking it could be a over heating problem then my cores at are at temperatures as follows:

Tj. Max 100C

Core 0 44C

Core 1 38C

Core 2 45C

Core 3 40C

It would be greatly appreciated of anyone could help me with my problem

 

[mpilchfamily]

I see your problem already. Its the PSU. The Hiper PSUs are very poor PSUs. I have one and they suck. Sure its a 580W PSU that offers about 30A on the 12V rails but the problem is it isn't very good at sustaining heavy loads. It has very dirty power. Meaning there is flux in the power signal that causes problems with heavy loads. I had constant porblems with my Hiper on the specs listed below.

Gigabyte GAk8N SLi Pro
Opti 165
7900GS and 7300GT (About the same power needs as your 4850)
1Gb Patriot DDR400

Had all sorts of stability problems till i removed the 7300GT. Only had the 7300GT so i wouldn't be losing any FPS in games trying to run 2 monitors on teh 7900GS. Any way the overall power needs of my system where about even if not a little less then that of your current system. You will want to get a better quality PSU.

Also i wouldn't worry much about CoH. Even on good stable systems i've had many problems with the game crashing. Thats just how the game is.

 

[phaxmohdem]

Agreed. Ditch the PSU. I can't speak highly enough about my positive experiences with Seasonic, Corsair and Antec units. Clean power is the key to system stability. (Especially with high powered CPU's and GPU's)

Something like this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16817139005 -or - http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16817151027 should be right up your alley

I have a personal rule, when building systems to never spend less than $100 on a quality power supply. Because, in my mind anyway, everything about a computer relies on electricity to function, so why short change the single component in a system that supplies that electricity to everything else?

 

[Buyaboat]

Ok thanks a lot of you two. I will have a look at those PSUs on those links you have provided me. The strange is though that it worked with 2GB of RAM in my other games and actually in COH for a few days as well. What do you think of that?

 

[Buyaboat]

Sorry to put 2 replies up in succession but I just thought for those of you that have commented and read earlier that i just played an approx 50 minuite battle on company of heroes and it ran smoothly with no crashes or anything like that. Any ideas? Maybe it was just an occaisional crash the other day but i dont know. So if anyone has any ideas they would be much appreiciated.