Well, i've been having this problem since i built this machine. and i'm also still in the trouble shooting phase trying to figure out whats going on so i'm open to suggestions on whats going on.. Since i built this rig
Abit IP35-E
Nvidia 8600 GT
SB X-Fi
Intel Pentium Core 2 Duo 2.4Ghz
1GB RAM
I've been having alot of issues mostly while playing WoW, and also C&C3. After 1 or 2 hours of gameplay i start seeing odd graphics and missing textures in game. while this happens during WoW I can close it and just restart the game, then after awhile things run fine. During C&C3 when this happened while i was playing C&C it locked up my computer and automatically restarted windows.
I havent been able to log it with Nvidia Monitor But i have logged and screen shotted performance while playing WoW using the NVIDIA monitoringview tool. But im wondering if theirs a way to get it too monitor voltages too since those are not being reported.
one of them is here
the other is here
and the event log is here
I'm also wondering afew things. (forgive me, im new too nvidia so i dont really know that much)Current Time Gpu core(3D)(MHz): GPU memory(MHz): SMART status: GPU1ºC) (ºC) CPU(%: Disk(%): Network(%): Memory(%): Profiles loaded:
2008/4/1 0:0:17 540.0 399.0 Healthy 61 0 42 % 10 % 0 % 88 %
2008/4/1 0:0:18 540.0 399.0 Healthy 61 0 42 % 10 % 0 % 88 %
2008/4/1 0:0:19 540.0 399.0 Healthy 61 0 42 % 10 % 0 % 88 %
2008/4/1 0:0:20 540.0 399.0 Healthy 61 0 41 % 3 % 0 % 88 %
2008/4/1 0:0:21 540.0 399.0 Healthy 61 0 41 % 3 % 0 % 88 %
2008/4/1 0:0:22 540.0 399.0 Healthy 61 0 41 % 3 % 0 % 88 %
2008/4/1 0:0:23 540.0 399.0 Healthy 61 0 41 % 3 % 0 % 88 %
2008/4/1 0:0:24 540.0 399.0 Healthy 62 0 41 % 1 % 0 % 88 %
2008/4/1 0:0:25 540.0 399.0 Healthy 62 0 41 % 1 % 0 % 88 %
2008/4/1 0:0:26 540.0 399.0 Healthy 62 0 41 % 1 % 0 % 88 %
2008/4/1 0:0:27 540.0 399.0 Healthy 62 0 41 % 1 % 0 % 88 %
2008/4/1 0:0:28 540.0 399.0 Healthy 61 0 38 % 14 % 0 % 89 %
2008/4/1 0:0:29 540.0 399.0 Healthy 61 0 38 % 14 % 0 % 89 %
2008/4/1 0:0:30 540.0 399.0 Healthy 61 0 38 % 14 % 0 % 89 %
2008/4/1 0:0:31 540.0 399.0 Healthy 61 0 38 % 14 % 0 % 89 %
2008/4/1 0:0:32 540.0 399.0 Healthy 61 0 31 % 25 % 0 % 89 %
2008/4/1 0:0:33 540.0 399.0 Healthy 61 0 31 % 25 % 0 % 89 %
2008/4/1 0:0:34 540.0 399.0 Healthy 61 0 31 % 25 % 0 % 89 %
2008/4/1 0:0:35 540.0 399.0 Healthy 61 0 31 % 25 % 0 % 89 %
2008/4/1 0:0:36 540.0 399.0 Healthy 63 0 39 % 15 % 0 % 89 %
2008/4/1 0:0:37 540.0 399.0 Healthy 63 0 39 % 15 % 0 % 89 %
2008/4/1 0:0:38 540.0 399.0 Healthy 63 0 39 % 15 % 0 % 89 %
2008/4/1 0:0:39 540.0 399.0 Healthy 63 0 39 % 15 % 0 % 89 %
2008/4/1 0:0:40 540.0 399.0 Healthy 62 0 29 % 43 % 0 % 89 %
2008/4/1 0:0:41 540.0 399.0 Healthy 62 0 29 % 43 % 0 % 89 %
1.whats the normal temperature nvidia cards normally run at during gaming? Mine idles at around 50 degrees and usually during gaming i get about 60 or so. so im not sure if that would be the cause or not.
2. O've noticed the high memory usage during gaming, the other thing im wondering about is if that 1GB of ram i have just isnt cutting it
3. If its not the video card, im wondering if my heat sink / CPU Fan on my board just isnt doing the job and causing things to overheat since im not able to see either of those temperatures. the heat sink is stock but i replaced the CPU fan with just a standard one i bought at altex.
I know im just grasping at straws here but im still in the trouble shooting phase and trying to gather info, so any help / advise would be greatly appreciated