Narrowing down PC freeze

Adz160

Adz160

Adz160

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Hi,

So my PC was freezing up on me at random times, but never when gaming. It would usually freeze up when watching a clip on windows media player, browsing the internet or watching a youtube video.

I took the graphics card out, fresh install of windows 7 64bit. I then used the on-board graphics and there have been no freezing issues since using the on-board graphics. Yesterday I plugged the graphics card back in, installed the nvidia drivers and within 5 minutes of watching a video in windows media player the system locked up and froze.

The system has been RMA'd back to OCUK today, but just curious as to what you guys think it could be? My thoughts are either a faulty motherboard or psu? I'm leaning away from graphics card as I can play games for hours and not experience a freeze, or an artifacts on the screen.

Specs
i5 4670K @ 3.8Ghz Cooled by a H80i
Asus Maximus VI Impact
Corsair Vengeance Pro 16GB @1866Mhz
Geforce GTX770 2GB WF3 Edition
Samsung 840 EVO 120Gb & 250Gb


Weird!
 
Thanks for your comment, should have stated that the system had been RMa'd back to OCUK a couple of weeks ago with the same issue. They changed the cpu and ram, and thought that had fixed the problem but I experienced the same freezing the night I had the system back!
 
Increase the 2D clocks on the gpu.

Easy way to check is to force the card to always run at 3D settings, and if there is no crashing during 2D applications then you know the 2D clocks need tweaking.
 
I had strange delays on things like web browsing and video playing, thought i had a virus or something; turned out 1 of my hdd was dying...the big 2tb one :(
 
Thanks for the replies guys... Ill see how OCUK get on as the system was picked up today and should be with them tomorrow.
 
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