please help a noob (games freezing)

[justzxthere]

hello i'm a huge fan of linus' and have had a relatively good pc for a while but recently started using it after the summer sale. i played a lot of borderlands 2, i think steam say 100 hours, and recently i think starting two days ago my game just freeze and all i could do was to ctrl+alt+del and go to task manager which would open then would put me back into the game and it would fix it until it did again. before it happen 10 minutes maybe but now it happens within minutes of loading and makes the game unplayable. ive tried other games csgo and bf3 and the same thing happens, where it freeze but ctrl+alt+del to open task manager would temporarily fix the issue. the audio also either loops, finishes the audio that was going on before the freeze (ie a character would finish their sentence), or (with spotify in the background) slow down speed up and change the pitch of the music.

 

my rig:

3570k with h60 cooler

asrock extreme 4 z77

670 msi twin frozer 4

corsair cx750

sound blaster z

plextor m5 pro

the temps seem to be fine >50c but that might not be too accurate since the games dont run that long but the pc never got that hot even before. i have the newest gfx driver and have updated windows

if you have any questions please ask. thanks for the help

[dragoon20005]

try with Unigine Benchmarks and FireStrike

 

see if the computer will freeze

 

run Memtest

 

remove the Sound Blaster Z card to rule out audio troubles

 

 

Use GPU-Z ID to check temps and GPU load

[justzxthere]

i should mention i can surf the web without any issues it seems to be only when playing games, hence it under graphics cards

[justzxthere]

so i ran the unigine valley benchmark and sure enough it crashed like the games. i ctrl+alt+del opened task manager and attempted to try again but as soon as i started the benchmark before it even went fullscreen it froze and this time i couldnt click on anything even task manager so i cltr+alt+del and signed out and signed back in

[justzxthere]

also the temps never went over 70 stayed about 65 during benchmark

[dragoon20005]

also the temps never went over 70 stayed about 65 during benchmark

ok run memtest

 

or try running the Unigine again using onboard graphics

[justzxthere]

is memtest windows key+r then typing mdsched, if so i did that earlier and it said there were no problems detected. to use onboard graphics would i just unplug the display output from card to the mobo

[dragoon20005]

is memtest windows key+r then typing mdsched, if so i did that earlier and it said there were no problems detected. to use onboard graphics would i just unplug the display output from card to the mobo

http://www.memtest86.com/download.htm

 

use the Ver 5.1 USB drive version

 

to use onboard you just remove your GPU and go to BIOS to enable the Integrated graphics, it should be found in Peripherals/Devices options 

[justzxthere]

yeah i did the unigine benchmark with the onboard graphics and it ran through the whole thing. so does this pin it on the gpu? could it be the pcie slot?

[justzxthere]

also i put it in the other pcie slot then put it back and went through the whole benchmark

[dragoon20005]

also i put it in the other pcie slot then put it back and went through the whole benchmark

ok now try with your games

 

if the game crashes 

 

i will suggest doing a fresh install to rule out software troubles

 

it could just be the GPU was not installed in properly but I am guessing.

[justzxthere]

i could play csgo borderlands 2 and bf3 for probably 6 hours combined without an issue so i dont know what the problem was but im relieved its fixed thanks for the help dragoon20005

[dragoon20005]

i could play csgo borderlands 2 and bf3 for probably 6 hours combined without an issue so i dont know what the problem was but im relieved its fixed thanks for the help dragoon20005

sure no problem

 

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