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Weird freezes getting worse over time

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29 minutes ago, RoughAdeptness said:

CPU : Intel i7-2600k

Motherboard : Intel DZ68BC

RAM : Kingston HyperX 8GB

GPU :  GTX 680 4GB

PSU : Antec HCG 750w

System : Windows 10 Home 64 bit

 

Hey so I've had this computer for a good few years already but only a month ago I've started to get weird freezes where my screen would freeze and nothing would respond requiring me to shutdown through the power button, and I can't seem to find the source of them.

At first they were only in games when I played for a few hours, then they started happening sooner and sooner until I'd crash about 10 minutes into any game. I did notice that turning every graphics setting to low and setting my resolution to the lowest possible did make the freezes take longer to show up.

A few days later my graphics card started having trouble but changing its thermal paste fixed it (for now) and even got rid of the freezes for about a week and a half.

After that they started coming back and quickly got back to the 10 minutes before a freeze. A few days later I started getting random freezes without even having a game open, I could be browsing forums and my pc would freeze. This is where I'm at now.

Over time I've tried :

Prime95 (CPU ran hot but never froze)

DisplayDriverUninstaller (nothing happened)

OCCT (nothing happened)

Passmark BurnInTest (no errors)

memtest86 (no errors)

Windows Memory Test (no errors)

Unigine Valley Benchmark (freezes 10 minutes in like games do)

 

I did try another graphics card and had the same problem, but it ran fine on valley benchmark with no freezes (still froze 10 minutes into any game). I took my PC to a computer repair shop and they were no help, the computer didn't even freeze which could've been because they had screens of a smaller resolution than mine.

My CPU does run pretty hot but since my pc still freezes on valley benchmark where it keeps cool temperatures I don't think this would be the cause.

Friends of mine have suggested this could be a PSU issue but i'm not sure how much water that holds nor do I have any idea how to confirm it. I am absolutely out of ideas on how to fix this so any thoughts would be very much appreciated.

Have you tried the graphics card in all PCIE slots in case there is a problem or short within the slot your using? When was the last time you replaced your cpu thermal paste? Is your os on an ssd or a hard drive? Sounds like it could be failing ram/ram slots too. maybe try just one stick of ram at a time to see if the issue is fixed. 

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CPU : Intel i7-2600k

Motherboard : Intel DZ68BC

RAM : Kingston HyperX 8GB

GPU :  GTX 680 4GB

PSU : Antec HCG 750w

System : Windows 10 Home 64 bit

 

Hey so I've had this computer for a good few years already but only a month ago I've started to get weird freezes where my screen would freeze and nothing would respond requiring me to shutdown through the power button, and I can't seem to find the source of them.

At first they were only in games when I played for a few hours, then they started happening sooner and sooner until I'd crash about 10 minutes into any game. I did notice that turning every graphics setting to low and setting my resolution to the lowest possible did make the freezes take longer to show up.

A few days later my graphics card started having trouble but changing its thermal paste fixed it (for now) and even got rid of the freezes for about a week and a half.

After that they started coming back and quickly got back to the 10 minutes before a freeze. A few days later I started getting random freezes without even having a game open, I could be browsing forums and my pc would freeze. This is where I'm at now.

Over time I've tried :

Prime95 (CPU ran hot but never froze)

DisplayDriverUninstaller (nothing happened)

OCCT (nothing happened)

Passmark BurnInTest (no errors)

memtest86 (no errors)

Windows Memory Test (no errors)

Unigine Valley Benchmark (freezes 10 minutes in like games do)

 

I did try another graphics card and had the same problem, but it ran fine on valley benchmark with no freezes (still froze 10 minutes into any game). I took my PC to a computer repair shop and they were no help, the computer didn't even freeze which could've been because they had screens of a smaller resolution than mine.

My CPU does run pretty hot but since my pc still freezes on valley benchmark where it keeps cool temperatures I don't think this would be the cause.

Friends of mine have suggested this could be a PSU issue but i'm not sure how much water that holds nor do I have any idea how to confirm it. I am absolutely out of ideas on how to fix this so any thoughts would be very much appreciated.

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29 minutes ago, RoughAdeptness said:

CPU : Intel i7-2600k

Motherboard : Intel DZ68BC

RAM : Kingston HyperX 8GB

GPU :  GTX 680 4GB

PSU : Antec HCG 750w

System : Windows 10 Home 64 bit

 

Hey so I've had this computer for a good few years already but only a month ago I've started to get weird freezes where my screen would freeze and nothing would respond requiring me to shutdown through the power button, and I can't seem to find the source of them.

At first they were only in games when I played for a few hours, then they started happening sooner and sooner until I'd crash about 10 minutes into any game. I did notice that turning every graphics setting to low and setting my resolution to the lowest possible did make the freezes take longer to show up.

A few days later my graphics card started having trouble but changing its thermal paste fixed it (for now) and even got rid of the freezes for about a week and a half.

After that they started coming back and quickly got back to the 10 minutes before a freeze. A few days later I started getting random freezes without even having a game open, I could be browsing forums and my pc would freeze. This is where I'm at now.

Over time I've tried :

Prime95 (CPU ran hot but never froze)

DisplayDriverUninstaller (nothing happened)

OCCT (nothing happened)

Passmark BurnInTest (no errors)

memtest86 (no errors)

Windows Memory Test (no errors)

Unigine Valley Benchmark (freezes 10 minutes in like games do)

 

I did try another graphics card and had the same problem, but it ran fine on valley benchmark with no freezes (still froze 10 minutes into any game). I took my PC to a computer repair shop and they were no help, the computer didn't even freeze which could've been because they had screens of a smaller resolution than mine.

My CPU does run pretty hot but since my pc still freezes on valley benchmark where it keeps cool temperatures I don't think this would be the cause.

Friends of mine have suggested this could be a PSU issue but i'm not sure how much water that holds nor do I have any idea how to confirm it. I am absolutely out of ideas on how to fix this so any thoughts would be very much appreciated.

Have you tried the graphics card in all PCIE slots in case there is a problem or short within the slot your using? When was the last time you replaced your cpu thermal paste? Is your os on an ssd or a hard drive? Sounds like it could be failing ram/ram slots too. maybe try just one stick of ram at a time to see if the issue is fixed. 

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10 minutes ago, doomsriker said:

Have you tried the graphics card in all PCIE slots in case there is a problem or short within the slot your using? When was the last time you replaced your cpu thermal paste? Is your os on an ssd or a hard drive? Sounds like it could be failing ram/ram slots too. maybe try just one stick of ram at a time to see if the issue is fixed. 

I haven't tried another PCIE slot but I'll get on it as soon as possible

I last replaced CPU thermal paste about 6 months ago but haven't noticed much in the way of temperature increase between then and now

My os is on an ssd but I do have 2 other hard drives for storage if that matters. SSD is an Intel SSD320 120gb one of the hard drives is a Seagate barracuda 750gb, I'll check the other one as soon as I can

I'll try the RAM along with the PCIE slot, haven't touched it before since the tests made it sound fine

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You got all your games on the same drive ? Is there maybe a relation ? 

Had an iddue like that with a pretty old harddrive that i pulled out of an old rig and installed a game on it.

But if thats the case it dont explain why your try to lower the graphics helped .

But maybe it is because of larger texture files need to be loaded o  higher graphic settings .

 

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That might make me sound like an idiot but I fiddled with the ram and got freezes with just one ram stick, but when I put them back in the freezes seemed to be gone? Ran for a good few hours and everything went smoothly. Not too sure what's going but it seems to be fixed so far, I'll update if it goes bad again. Anyway thank you so much guys!

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