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Q6600 playing up

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Ok I started a thread last night about my brothers Q6600 Slackr chip rebooting his machine and the general opinion was that it was the PSU - EXCOOL 550W. So I bought him another PSU today and it does the same thing, the PSU I bought was this;-
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-016-XG&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=

Boots into Windows fine, all is good, music all ok, Convertxtodvd all good, gaming it reboots - approx 2 minuts into Battlefield 3 or MW3.

System is Q6600, Asrock G41M-VS3, 8 gig DDR3 ram and GTX 460 768 meg. Windows 7, maybe the Chip is faulty or the board cannot supply enough voltage to the chip - there is no additional voltage settings for CPU.

http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?model=g41m-vs3

When the E5200 is back in then it happy days, the Q6600 spits it's dummy out? Do I need to reinstall Windows for the new CPU? or what else can be wrong?

Thanks
 
I don't like the look of that PSU, seems a bit cheap and nasty tbh. The fact that all is ok with E5200, but things go awry with the Q6600 does point to a power problem as the Q6600 will draw a lot more voltage. You'd be better off with a good brand PSU, Corsair, OCZ, PCPower & Cooling etc.

Before you spend anymore money though try updating motherboard bios to latest available, if it's running a very old bios it may not be quad core compatible.
 
The PSU was recommended by the geezer on the front desk of OCUK "Yes mate, that'll do". All the review sites say it's ok. Dual rail as well. I have updated the bios and still it plays up, it's a cheap nasty board so I don't know what to think now..
 
I doubt it's the motherboard, Asrock are a good make. Tbh mate, you don't get good, stable 500 watt psu's for £30. I'd wager a decent PSU will make all the difference, you are trying to run a pretty high spec system there and it needs a good brand PSU, simple as that.
 
All sorted now. Unbelievable. The fault was the graphics card overheating. When I originally put the Q6600 in, I accidently trapped a wire in the GTX 460 Cyclone from the case fan which runs over the top of the card- stopping the fan. So in normal Windows mode all was good, as was browsing, music, convertxtodvd as they are not graphics intensive. Fire up MW3 or BF3 and it'd crash, not through CPU error or PSU but because the graphics card overheated and it shut down the computer.
 
To be fair, the psu had to be changed. The original eazycrap psu is a 10.00 550w jobbie that would've killed components. Not terribly impressed with its replacement, but it should be a lot better.
 
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