PC freezing in games

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Hope I can get some advice on this problem I am having:

For a while my PC had been freezing in games perhaps once every 6 hours of gaming on average. One day it froze and my 8800gt was dead, I assumed the dying 8800gt was the cause of the freezing. Before this I thought it was probably my Q6600 overclock as I probably set the voltage a little low.

Now I have replaced the 8800gt with a 5850. I am still getting the freezing in games, I have only tested with BF3 so far and in BF3 this happens on average every half hour. My temps seem fine and I have stressed my CPU, RAM and GPU with OCCT for an hour each and an hour together with no unreasonable temps and no crashing. This still occurs despite me resetting my bios and running the Q6600 at stock clocks, volts etc.

Any ideas what could be the cause of this? I assume my dead 8800gt was a coincidence as the problem is ongoing. Is it possibly software? My windows installation is quite old now.

Thanks
 
Try bringing the Q6600 back down to stock and checking, if problem goes away you know its then related to CPU/OC, quite often a chip can be test stable but not game stable, Ive found anyway
 
Thanks for the suggestion, I will try a much longer stress test. A split second of sound that was playing at the moment it freezes rapidly loops so it sounds like a loud buzz when it goes if that helps at all.

(Using my motherboards integrated sound)
 
What voltage is your q6600 at? run the small ffts prime 95 for a couple of hours. if you have no errors then run the blend overnight. The small ffts will just stress the cpu so will help you rule one thing out at a time.
 
Interesting development, I thought I would try some more things before the all night test.

Having had everything at stock previously with freezing I tried raising the vcore to 1.325 in the bios and the freezing has gone away. Can chips go bad over time and not be run at their stock voltage?
 
The processor just wasn't getting enough juice. that voltage seems about the norm for that overclock. now try the small ffts for at least an hour. if it passes then onto the overnight blend. if that passes run some 3d intensive benchmarks tomorrow such as furmark and 3dmark. if you have errors on the blend test up the vcore a notch or two and re-test.
 
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