cpu freezing

[septic]

not as yet but i shall 2morrow nite as i'm off to airsoft in the morning. after some googling it seem likely the psu is at fault.

 

[septic]

handbrake is a video encoding software.. i used it to load all 4 cores on the Q6600 and 2 cores on the E6600.

the rest of ur info is rite. the E6600 is back in the gigabyte board.

but now its says vcore fail in the bios followed by ddr18v fail aswell. i've turned the overclock off and set everything to auto but disabled all the intel speedstep stuff.

 

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predator combat games in northern ireland. bit far from hampshire

will try to get a new psu this week and try the Q6600 again.

 

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got a new ocz silent2stream 700w psu and installed it. no difference!

cpu-z reports vcore as 1.728 even when i set it manully to 1.325. the vcore has been as high a 1.8v according to speedfan and easytune 6. could the weak link be the motherboard?

 

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found a bent pin on the board. installed Q6600 vcore now a 1.296v but still crashing playing games

 

[septic]

update:

after chopping and changing all the parts:

Q6600 to E6600, different ram, 9800gt to 8800gts, no soundcard, different hard drive and new psu.

the only thing that remained the same is the motherboard so that must be the cause of the freezing.

 

[septic]

tried that too, doesnt seem to like the voltages adjusted for the northbridge wont even boot

 

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i changed the memory sticks completly, ran memtest on the orginal 4gb sticks and it froze at 6% so i suppose the controller could be borked

 

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changed the board for a g31-e2sl micro-atx one today, installed worldin conflict to test if it would play and guess what? it did and it played a whole level without crashing r freezing

so i guess the 965p was bustd after all.

 

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How did you get your cpu to -Celcius temperatures? That's pretty impressive

huh, am i didnt