Right you HANDY HELPERS!!!!.... i have a problem here, my comp is listed in my signiture below see if you can help me out!
I built this rig few weeks ago and when it was first up ran like a dream
1 thing i noticed is that it seems to use a lot of cpu power windows media player full screen equaliser uses as much as 50% which could just be how the 3500 works. nothing is overclcoked.
But my system keeps crashing it seems to be very stable until i start to run a game, (Joint operations) at any random moment it will just freeze, i reinstalled game to different drive so i know its not the game,
lights on my ram show that computer is on but not running, display freezes on wherever i was last at and a sustained high pitched buzzing comes through the speakers. All temparatures are super cool, and once restarted theres no change in system performance.
im pretty sure its not hardware and i have no viruses, as i say cant tell a fault when system is on.
So after all that im left with my PSU, my comp does use a lot of power and im sure the 6800 uses a lot too, but i have a 500w which i thought would be enough.
the crashing is doing my head in and even after leaving comp off all night seems to crash at random between 30 seconds and couple of hours on game.
Soooooo do you think it could be PSU? the air coming out of the back of PSU is quite warm, warmer than it should be. thinking of going for a 650w qtec which my colleques have had no problems with on running lots of devices.
But if its not the PSU i am royally screwed if i know!![]()
what else could it be guys?