PC Freezing while gaming

[jokerCr]

Hey guys,

 

I need help with this problem I'm having. My PC keeps freezing mostly while I play games. It just freezes without BSOD, mouse and keyboard won't respond anymore and the only way to bring it back is to hit the reset button. It usually happens after playing 5 to 30 minutes in games like Borderlands 2, Shadow of Morder and even in LoL. I've already tried resintalling Windows from scratch, and it did not help. I never overclocked (I'm lazy), both the processor and the GPU have always run in stock speeds.

 

These are my specs

 

* ASUS M5A97 R2.0 AM3+ AMD 970 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard

* Gigabyte GTX 760 GDDR5-2GB 2xDVI/HDMI/DP OC WINDFORCE 3X Graphics Cards GV-N760OC-2GD REV2.0

* AMD FD8320FRHKBOX FX-8320 FX-Series 8-Core Black Edition

* Kingston Technology HyperX 8 GB (2x4 GB Modules) 1600 MHz DDR3 Dual Channel Kit (PC3 12800) 240-Pin SDRAM KHX1600C9D3K2/8GX

* Kingston Digital 120GB SSDNow V300 SATA 3 2.5 (7mm height) with Adapter Solid State Drive 2.5-Inch SV300S37A/120G

* WD Blue 1 TB Desktop Hard Drive: 3.5 Inch, 7200 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64 MB Cache - WD10EZEX

* Corsair CX Series 600 Watt ATX/EPS Modular 80 PLUS Bronze ATX12V/EPS12V 552 Power Supply CX600M

* Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO - CPU Cooler with 120mm PWM Fan (RR-212E-20PK-R2)

* Windows 10 Pro

 

What I've tried so far

 

* I ran Memtest64 over the night, several passes, no errors found.

* Just in case, I swapped both RAM sticks for another exact pair, problem kept happening.

* Ran FurMark for over 2 hours, PC did not freeze

* Ran Prime 95 for over 2 hours, PC did not freeze.

* Ran Valley Benchmark, froze after one hour.

* Resintalled Windows 10

 

Temps/Usage

 

* Borderlands 2 -- GPU 55C - 72% usage // CPU 46C - 20% usage

* Shadow of Mordor -- GPU 69 - 75% usage // CPU 48C - 235 usage

* Furmark -- GPU 75C - 100% usage (did not freeze)

* Prime 95 -- CPU 57C - 100% usage (did not feeze)

* Valley Benchmark -- GPU 71C - 90%-100% usage - CPU 44C - 10%-20% usage

 

Anyone has any idea what might be going on? Thanks for the help!

[Morgan MLGman]

I believe it's the CX 600 PSU cause it is not good for gaming builds and it might cause the issue.

Try plugging in another power supply and do some testing

[Tedster]

I'd like to say that the power supply is your issue. CX series are said to be bad my tons of people.

[jokerCr]

I have a EVGA 500B 500W 80PLUS Bronze Certified around... could that be enough to power my PC?

[Nakano2k1]

If you have a extra fan around, try pointing the fan at the mosfets on the motherboard and see if that changes anything. You don't have any overclocks applied on any of your components, do you? Make sure your hard drives are alright by downloading crystaldiskinfo.

[GM_Peka]

Might be some bad software you keep installing, like Asus AiSuite 2 or something (that crap is super buggy).

[Morgan MLGman]

I have a EVGA 500B 500W 80PLUS Bronze Certified around... could that be enough to power my PC?

It should be enough, try it and tell us what happens then If your PC shuts down then take down any overclocks and try again, but it should be enough.

At least for testing, for permanent use I'd recommend grabbing a quality unit like XFX, SeaSonic, SuperFlower or EVGA B2/G2/GS.

[Nakano2k1]

The CX PSUs have problems with higher end cards, not a gtx 760.... The CX600 is almost overkill for it...

[jokerCr]

I'll give it a try with the other PSU because, who knows.., that might be it.

 

Added info to original post:

 

* I never overclocked (I'm lazy), both the processor and the GPU have always run (ran? ) at stock speeds.

* Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO - CPU Cooler with 120mm PWM Fan (RR-212E-20PK-R2)

[jokerCr]

If you have a extra fan around, try pointing the fan at the mosfets on the motherboard and see if that changes anything. You don't have any overclocks applied on any of your components, do you? Make sure your hard drives are alright by downloading crystaldiskinfo.

 

CrystalDiskInfo shows: Good 100% Health Status for the SSD, Good (No %?) for the HD.

 

Do you mean pointing a case fan to the mosfets? Because I also have a big fan in my room and I can use that but it will throw air to the entire motherboard.

[Nakano2k1]

Usually, if a power supply is at fault, you'll receive the IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL error in windows.

[Nakano2k1]

CrystalDiskInfo shows: Good 100% Health Status for the SSD, Good (No %?) for the HD.

 

Do you mean pointing a case fan to the mosfets? Because I also have a big fan in my room and I can use that but it will throw air to the entire motherboard.

 

You could do that too. It's just the 4+2 phase boards sometimes have issues with FX-8xxx and FX-9xxx chips.

[jokerCr]

You could do that too. It's just the 4+2 phase boards sometimes have issues with FX-8xxx and FX-9xxx chips.

 

It froze after 25 minutes into Shadow of Mordor. I used my room fan, blowing a lot of air to the entire motherboard.

 

I just swapped the PSU and I'm trying with the 500W from EVGA...

[jokerCr]

It's not the PSU. It froze again around 25 minutes into Shadow of Mordor... What can I try next? 

 

The PC I built for the livingroom has a ASUS HD7750-1GD5-V2 AMD Radeon HD and a Gigabyte AM3+ AMD DDR3 1333 760G HDMI USB 3.0 Micro ATX Motherboard. 

 

Can I swap the motherboard and test it with the 760, and then test the original motherboard with the 7750?

[LabRat]

what happens if you disable all shadows?

what happens if you lower the resolution?

you may have a driver conflict. ( sound )

NB and SB chipsets can be getting WAY HOT.

what happens if you uninstall the physx driver?

[jokerCr]

what happens if you disable all shadows?

what happens if you lower the resolution?

you may have a driver conflict. ( sound )

NB and SB chipsets can be getting WAY HOT.

what happens if you uninstall the physx driver?

 

- Froze

- Froze

- Windows freshly installed, drivers disabled then enabled, uninstalled then reinstalled, still froze.

- OK... How can I test that?

- Froze

 

Any other ideas?

[LabRat]

you either stick your tongue on them or touch them with your finger. you should be able to tell if they're too hot or not.  i used to use hot glue wads on the corners of 4omm fans and glue them to the heat sinks.

 

one, graphics card. not enough vraM on the card and it's off loading a lot of texture data to the system.

 

heat, i don't care what temps you are seeing, your componenets are getting hot.

 

i would remove the heat sink on the cpu and clean up the old paste and reapply new.

 

i wouls also do a cmose reset so things will run at bone stock in case something go fouled up along the way.

 

if any of the games are strictly associated with the ssd I would disconnect the HD and run those games without it running.