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Help! My system start freezing during gaming all of a sudden.

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Xellos2099

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Hi, I think I mightneed help from some fo you guys here. For the past few days my gaming rig has been freezing a bit lately whenever I play FFXI and watching dvd at the same time, Sometime it don't happen ever during the gamign section, but sometime it happen every hours or 30 minutes and it is getting a little annoying. Here is revlent system spec

Intel Core 2 duo E6400 oc to 3 ghz at stock 1.325 v
Gigabtye DS3
4 x gig ddr2 ram in dual channel 667 overclocked to 775 at 2.0v and timing is 4 4 4 12
the ram detail are
2x 1 gig Gskill DDR2 667
2x 1 gig Kingston value ram DDR2 667 ( the
EVGA Nvidia 7800GT Full Trouttle( used, purchased around 7-8 months ago from a fellow anand trader)
2 x 120 gig Seagate hdd
1 x 160 gig Western digital hdd

Some of recent system change the past week are:
oc the ram from the 700 mhz to 775 mhz and change voltage from 1.9v to 2.0v
connected my main os hdd to the same ide cable as the dvd burner thinking it should made more space for airflow since it would be one less ide cable
Added in a wintv PVR-150

What could be causing the problem? I am guessing either the 7800gt is overheading or the the recently purchased kingston ddr2 ram that I bough from fry is a bit bad. Or do I need ot change the timing of the ram to 5 5 5 15 to stablize the overclocking fo the ram? Or voltage for the processor is not enough for my overclocking?


 
How long am I suppose to run Othros for the stability of the ram? I ran it for 2 hours and no error after I upgrade my mb bios to F11. However, I ran into cold-boot problem this morning lol.
 
Originally posted by: Xellos2099
How long am I suppose to run Othros for the stability of the ram? I ran it for 2 hours and no error after I upgrade my mb bios to F11. However, I ran into cold-boot problem this morning lol.
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At least 24 hours. But yes, it could also be your psu. What is it by the way?...
 
Originally posted by: Xellos2099
Enermax 500w
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It's fine then... You should fix your overclock... Run two instances of SP2004 with the affinity of 0 on one and 1 on the other on priority 10, and just leave it there for about 6-24 hours. If you find no problem, then I'm not sure, but if something happens, it's your overclock.
 
Ds3's are know to have cold boot issues. Try using OCCT english to stress test.


I play FF11 as well on Siren server. Its odd I used to get random OS freezes on that game only and every other game worked fine and stressed fine. Its an ancient PS2 port that was never optimized for windows very well. It runs in basic emulation and is 90percent run off the CPU. On my new system I still get weird crashes in Caedaerva mire and nowhere else. Weird stuff....

Sinceyou have dualcore run the DVD player process off the second core since FF11 may only use the first core.
 
Don't Othros SP2004 already stress both core already? If so, why do I nmeed to run two instant of it? Also, right now I am running blend test for both core, is it a good test?
 
Yes, Orthos will stress both cores - it's a modded version of Prime95. The blend test is probably the best for overall system stability as it tests both CPU and RAM. Also run Memtest86+ off a CD.
 
also, should i stree my system too much dring the othros test? because today when the test ia at 18 hours mark wiht no error and i beign to play soem cpu intensive game and the system hanged on me
 
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