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Hi guys
Not sure which specific area this should go in because I'm not exactly sure what the problem is, so I'll just hope it's fine here.
Basically, I bought and built a new (my first) PC last week (didn't buy from OCUK - I only found you recently...) after spending a while trying to get everything sorted at a good price.
I ended up buying:
AMD Phenom II X4965BE
MSI Radeon HD6850 Cyclone OC 1GB
Asus M4A79XTD EVO mobo
4GB (2x2) Corsair RAM
Coolermaster GX650w PSU
Coolermaster Elite 430 case
Samsung HD103SJ 1tb HDD
along with a few fans, disk drive and a Linksys wireless card, running on Windows 7 64bit.
I bought it primarily for gaming, replacing my mac (which obviously couldn't really do games). At first all seemed ok, however I've been having a problem recently and I'm not sure where to go with it.
Basically, all my games run as expected (DiRT2 @65FPS, Shogun II runs fine, Crysis is ok etc) however I started getting a loud buzz through my speakers that would last less than a second and then would disappear for a random amount of time, before happening again. At the same time, the game would freeze for a second. This happened playing videos as well. I've not brought all my music across yet so haven't really had much of a chance to check with that (though I'm listening to Trivium as I type this, so we'll see) but in general it's quite annoying.
I then started to get freezing in my games, sometimes it would happen a lot, sometimes it barely happened at all, it was always short freezes, less than a second, but it was more than enough to be annoying. It's basically making things unplayable, and I'm starting to regret making the jump from consoles...
(I can now confirm that it does buzz during audio - the audio doesn't seem to skip, it just makes a loud buzz over the top at random points, and then if I rewind to that point again it is fine)
There has been a suggestion on another forum that my onboard soundcard might be getting interference or interfering with the graphics card. I'm not sure if having a dodgy soundcard could make the game freeze up constantly, but it might explain the buzzing. Is it possible that this is the cause of the freezing? I did try completely disabling the drivers in the control panel, and it seemed to help a bit, but Shift 2 still froze up a bit in replays, although whether disabling the drivers can stop the soundcard interfering I don't know.
Is this possible though? I'm going to buy a cheap USB soundcard to use, but obviously I don't really want to waste my money if it isn't even a possibility. If it isn't this, I'll probably try and get someone to look at it all for me, because I'm not that good with this at the moment.
All my drivers have been updated, and I did completely uninstall the graphics card drivers before reinstalling them, and it seemed fine for a couple of hours, then it went bad again, so I dunno whats up with it.
Any help would be much appreciated
Not sure which specific area this should go in because I'm not exactly sure what the problem is, so I'll just hope it's fine here.
Basically, I bought and built a new (my first) PC last week (didn't buy from OCUK - I only found you recently...) after spending a while trying to get everything sorted at a good price.
I ended up buying:
AMD Phenom II X4965BE
MSI Radeon HD6850 Cyclone OC 1GB
Asus M4A79XTD EVO mobo
4GB (2x2) Corsair RAM
Coolermaster GX650w PSU
Coolermaster Elite 430 case
Samsung HD103SJ 1tb HDD
along with a few fans, disk drive and a Linksys wireless card, running on Windows 7 64bit.
I bought it primarily for gaming, replacing my mac (which obviously couldn't really do games). At first all seemed ok, however I've been having a problem recently and I'm not sure where to go with it.
Basically, all my games run as expected (DiRT2 @65FPS, Shogun II runs fine, Crysis is ok etc) however I started getting a loud buzz through my speakers that would last less than a second and then would disappear for a random amount of time, before happening again. At the same time, the game would freeze for a second. This happened playing videos as well. I've not brought all my music across yet so haven't really had much of a chance to check with that (though I'm listening to Trivium as I type this, so we'll see) but in general it's quite annoying.
I then started to get freezing in my games, sometimes it would happen a lot, sometimes it barely happened at all, it was always short freezes, less than a second, but it was more than enough to be annoying. It's basically making things unplayable, and I'm starting to regret making the jump from consoles...
(I can now confirm that it does buzz during audio - the audio doesn't seem to skip, it just makes a loud buzz over the top at random points, and then if I rewind to that point again it is fine)
There has been a suggestion on another forum that my onboard soundcard might be getting interference or interfering with the graphics card. I'm not sure if having a dodgy soundcard could make the game freeze up constantly, but it might explain the buzzing. Is it possible that this is the cause of the freezing? I did try completely disabling the drivers in the control panel, and it seemed to help a bit, but Shift 2 still froze up a bit in replays, although whether disabling the drivers can stop the soundcard interfering I don't know.
Is this possible though? I'm going to buy a cheap USB soundcard to use, but obviously I don't really want to waste my money if it isn't even a possibility. If it isn't this, I'll probably try and get someone to look at it all for me, because I'm not that good with this at the moment.
All my drivers have been updated, and I did completely uninstall the graphics card drivers before reinstalling them, and it seemed fine for a couple of hours, then it went bad again, so I dunno whats up with it.
Any help would be much appreciated
