Games momentarily freezing

Carrot30 · 14 Jan 2010 at 09:51

Hi,

I've got a OC built Goliath with an i7 2.66MHz oc to 3.4MHz, its an awesome machine. But for some reason when playing games there seems to be a system freeze for about 10 sec - this can happen up to about 10 times in one season.

Has anyone got any ideas what it is, and whether upgrading to Win7 would fix it?

This is something that only seemed to start happening a couple of weeks ago and I've had this pc since July.

Thanks for your advice in advance.

Cheers,

Carrot

Carrot30 · 22 Jan 2010 at 22:22

Whats strange is that the PC seems generally more stable now that I've up graded to Win7. however it is still freezing up, and three time now its crashed the pc completely forcing a hard power cycle.

can anyone help?

thanks,

masterk · 22 Jan 2010 at 22:32

Im thinking it sounds like a PSU issue, have you got a spare you could try by any chance?

hyperst · 23 Jan 2010 at 13:01

list your full spec, do you use solid state hard dives

Carrot30 · 24 Jan 2010 at 23:19

Basically, I have the Goliath OC system - i7 925 overclocked to 3.4GHz with 3 Gb RAM, GeForce 275, SATAII 500Gb HD and older 260 Gb SATAII.

unfortunately, I don't have a spare i7 to test against this CPU.

should I be concidering re-setting the clock speed?

Carrot30 · 25 Jan 2010 at 13:00

Sorry Hyperst, no I haven't got any solid state Hard Drives, just standard ones.

Carrot30 · 26 Jan 2010 at 14:15

This issue seems to occur outside of games too.

Eddmac · 26 Jan 2010 at 14:16

Is it the graphics driver crashing?
(not familiar with "7" yet, but i assume there is an event log viewer type thing?)

romperstomper · 26 Jan 2010 at 14:18

10 seconds is a long time but I would try turning of background tasks in msconfig something may well be hogging your sytem .Virus check your sytem too.