Screen freezes up during gameplay

[nosebleedXD]

every time when i play games, randomly my screen would freeze and go funky colours

its usually from 1 hours and more and then it just dies on me

then i would need to restart my comp

is it a video card issue? cpu? ram?

cause i've overclocked before and stuff untill i realised i did something wrong

now i set it back at stock speeds and still same results except fewer of these freezes

 

[nosebleedXD]

 

[Route44]

What your video card is doing is called artifacting. In can be a sign that it is dying or it can be caused by a heat issue. Make sure your video card fan is working properly and your system as a whole has good air flow.

When one games it puts a load on the system especially the video card and thus produces more heat. Overclocking will definitely do this. Try opening your side panel and let a small fan blow into your system. Do you get the artifacting when you do so?

 

[nosebleedXD]

i actually have a pci slot fan thats blowing towards it atm

 

[nosebleedXD]

hey guys, i recently got a driver upate for my vid card

then i thought the problem went away cause the screen freezing never happened anymore

but now i just got a blue screen, i will get an update to see if i get more blue screens or not

 

[nosebleedXD]

blue screen ftl =[ did i fry my ram

 

[mailpup]

You also might have a failing power supply.

 

[Route44]

What mailpup said plus attach your five latest minidump files. You can Zip five together.