PC Freezes when playing a game

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Whenever I play battlefield 3, Natural Selection, Garrys mod, mincraft in full screen, (pretty much any game) my computer just freezes, then i have to force shutdown.

These are my computer Specs:

CPU: AMD A10-5800k (COOLER MASTER Hyper 212 EVO)

Mobo: ASRock FM2A75M-DGS

RAM: G.SKILL Ares Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2133 (PC3 17000)

Video: SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 6670 1GB 128-bit DDR3

Storage: 1TB WD

Case: Cooler Master HAF 912

PSU: Rosewill Green Series RG530-S12 530W

Fan Controller: NZXT Sentry-2 5.25

CD Driver: SAMSUNG DVD Burner SATA Model SH-224BB

Additional info: I have dual graphics on since the A series can do that. Sometimes I might be playing for only 10 minutes and it freezes, or even an hour playing Battlefield 3 it freezes.

Please Help, Thanks.

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Have you overclocked anything?

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Seems like something overheats at that point, take temperatues from CPU and GPU.

You can also do seperate stress tests on your cpu, and gpu. You can find some free software in google.

Also have you overclocked anything?

 

If you are using dual graphics, it might be, that one card crashes at some point. Do you see any strange spots, boxes, anomalies on the screen before the crash?

I inserted your information into PSU calculator just in case, so you should be fine on that part, i got around 300-350W usage, without overclocks. On peak load, you might get near 400. http://www.thermaltake.outervision.com/Power

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I would try turning dual Gpu Mode off to see if it's that

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Nope, haven't overclocked anything.

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At what temperatures should my GPU and CPU be at?

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I'm going to try playing Battlefield 3 with dual graphics and see what happens, and then take off the dual graphics.

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I usually try to keep it under 70C,

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Check to make sure your RAM sticks are seated properly and in the right slots (pull them out and set them back it firmly). Check your GPU and make sure it's seated properly. Open up AMD Catalyst if you got it downloaded and running to see if the CPU and/or GPU Overdrive feature has you at a high OC, set it to defalt. Update your Mobo BIOS to the latest one from ASRock. If it was working just fine before all this started try restoring your PC to an earlier time to hopefully undo and software conflicts. If you're over 21 grab a beer, if not grab a root beer.

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It also maybe bad sector that causes the crashing say for example on that partition there is a graphics file that is being loaded when your playing the game it tries to load the bad file but it cant so the program tries again and again hitting infinite loop flooding your ram with broken copies of the file making it crash. I would recommend running pc-check just to be sure all your hardware is in condition.

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No heat shelding over the mosfets then adding a cooling unit that dosent blow air at them to cool them down is usually the culprit....

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Or get a top down cooling unit.

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Psu might be failing,so be careful when stress testing hehe.