Hello folks! I am new to this site, showing up due to insanity reasons . I am having all sorts of trouble running F.E.A.R, Call of Duty 2, etc. After about 10-15 mins of play, my computer suddenly shuts down and I have to restart it. I know it is not the mobo because it is doing this with several motherboards. I have an athlon 64 3500 with a Thermaltake Silent Boost K8 cooling fan, have thermal pasted the CPU and have two other fans in the case as well. My PSU is a 430 w Antec. Video Card is Ge Force 6800 OC. I have recently blown an ASUS A8V Mobo and am now using ABIT AV8 - socket 939. I am running AGP still at this point, not PCI express. I have 4 sticks of 512 MB PC3200 Ram on the board. Tried all kinds of drives for the Vid card, same result. Any suggestions why the computer is suddenly shutting down in middle of games?. Idle temps for my CPU are in the 31 degree celsius range while appears loaded is around 55. I am starting to believe it is my PSU at this point as the vid card has never given me trouble. HELP!! Oh PS - I have reformatted several times and this has also happened with different hard drives. Must be Vid Card or PSU
Steelrain
Steelrain