Hi there,
Well basically, around a week ago, i decided to spend the money on a decent PC upgrade;
Intel Core i7 920 @ 4.2Ghz Stable and Primed'95
GA-EX58-UD3R Rev 1.7
6GB DDR3 Corsair Ram
XFX 4870x2 - Carried from my old machine
Corsair H50 Watercooling Kit
All other parts just standard; optical drive, 1TB Samsung F3
Corsair HX620W Modular PSU
OS: Windows 7 Pro 64*
Installation went fine but now when playing games like Left 4 Dead 2, for longer then say 15 mins, sometimes longer or shorter, it varies, the current picture locks, and a high pitched noise emits from my speakers. Ive tried reinstalls, taking my CPU back to stock and all sorts, but it still happens ( tried almost every catalyst driver out there as well !) but all to no avail.
Does this sound like a graphics card based problem or something more serious, not being a hardcore hardware man myself, I'm relatively nooby to this sort of thing.
Furthermore, the 4870x2 has default clocks set at 500Mhz and 507Mhz, I am in the process of sending it back to XFX, but in my original machine it worked fine with no locks; thus making me wonder whether or not it is the card causing the issues. I have tried playing in games with both the clocks it is set at, and with forced 750 and 900 clocks within rivatuner, but both cause locks. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
* Just to clarify, the graphics card was only in my old machine for a few days, before I ordered new parts, and never realised the dodgy clock speeds until I built the new PC; but the 4870x2 in the old machine still worked perfectly fine for gaming sessions longer then 4 hours at times with no locks or crashes whatsoever.
Damien
Well basically, around a week ago, i decided to spend the money on a decent PC upgrade;
Intel Core i7 920 @ 4.2Ghz Stable and Primed'95
GA-EX58-UD3R Rev 1.7
6GB DDR3 Corsair Ram
XFX 4870x2 - Carried from my old machine
Corsair H50 Watercooling Kit
All other parts just standard; optical drive, 1TB Samsung F3
Corsair HX620W Modular PSU
OS: Windows 7 Pro 64*
Installation went fine but now when playing games like Left 4 Dead 2, for longer then say 15 mins, sometimes longer or shorter, it varies, the current picture locks, and a high pitched noise emits from my speakers. Ive tried reinstalls, taking my CPU back to stock and all sorts, but it still happens ( tried almost every catalyst driver out there as well !) but all to no avail.
Does this sound like a graphics card based problem or something more serious, not being a hardcore hardware man myself, I'm relatively nooby to this sort of thing.
Furthermore, the 4870x2 has default clocks set at 500Mhz and 507Mhz, I am in the process of sending it back to XFX, but in my original machine it worked fine with no locks; thus making me wonder whether or not it is the card causing the issues. I have tried playing in games with both the clocks it is set at, and with forced 750 and 900 clocks within rivatuner, but both cause locks. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
* Just to clarify, the graphics card was only in my old machine for a few days, before I ordered new parts, and never realised the dodgy clock speeds until I built the new PC; but the 4870x2 in the old machine still worked perfectly fine for gaming sessions longer then 4 hours at times with no locks or crashes whatsoever.
Damien