New upgrade freezing after an hour of gaming., help please.

PSU? Bad choice getting a 3570k with a H77 chipset...MonsieurX

The PSU is a Diablotek PDA-650BW. What exactly is the problem with that CPU/Motherboard combination? Is there something configurable in the Bios that I'm missing?

I just upgraded my CPU, Motherboard and Operating System from AMD FX-4100, Gigabyte GA-78LMT-S2P and Windows 7 to Intel i5 3570K, Asus H77M and Windows 8 but what was supposed to be a excellent upgrade is becoming annoying because video games ussually are crashing after playing for about an hour. I upgraded both the VGA and audio drivers to the latest available in the website and also the Bios to see if I get any improvement but video games continue to crash. Is that possible that I'm overlooking any settings? I hope that some hardware guru here know the solution to nthis problem. Thanks in advance.

[QUOTE="MonsieurX"]PSU? Bad choice getting a 3570k with a H77 chipset...The_Hermit_1971

The PSU is a Diablotek PDA-650BW. What exactly is the problem with that CPU/Motherboard combination? Is there something configurable in the Bios that I'm missing?

[QUOTE="The_Hermit_1971"]

[QUOTE="MonsieurX"]PSU? Bad choice getting a 3570k with a H77 chipset...MonsieurX

The PSU is a Diablotek PDA-650BW. What exactly is the problem with that CPU/Motherboard combination? Is there something configurable in the Bios that I'm missing?

I don't wanna overclock anyway, I'm just looking for good performance. A Intel 3.4 GHZ processor should be enough for my uses.

[QUOTE="MonsieurX"][QUOTE="The_Hermit_1971"]

The PSU is a Diablotek PDA-650BW. What exactly is the problem with that CPU/Motherboard combination? Is there something configurable in the Bios that I'm missing?

The_Hermit_1971

I don't wanna overclock anyway, I'm just looking for good performance. A Intel 3.4 GHZ processor should be enough for my uses.

Check the temperatures of your CPU and GPU.

Instead of answering your question, I'm going to tell you what you should have upgraded to and why... because that's the opposite of what you want - and is so helpful..

On a serious note; I would assume a software problem - my first guess would be on Windows 8.

I decided to pick this CPU because Microcenter have a discount when you buy this CPU along with a motherboard. I decided for the motherboard because it was the cheapest with at least a PCIe 3.0 16X slot and at least two Sata 6Gbps connectors, which resulted a little bit hard to find. I decided for Windows 8 because of the exclusivity of DX 11.1 and its nice features and I plan to program a video game in the near future and I thought that DX 11.1 is a good platform to program it. But this is not the first time that I hear that Windows 8 is crappola and I'll give windows 7 a try with the new hardware installed to see how it works and forget about DX 11.1 for now or at least untill a stable service pack is finally published. Thanks for your answers guys.

[QUOTE="MonsieurX"]PSU? Bad choice getting a 3570k with a H77 chipset...The_Hermit_1971

The PSU is a Diablotek PDA-650BW. What exactly is the problem with that CPU/Motherboard combination? Is there something configurable in the Bios that I'm missing?

I picked up the Diablotek PSU because it was the only one in its price range that has 650 Watts. Why shouldn't I picked up that one? Are they that bad? I can still exchange it for a Corsair GS600 which cost the same but is just a 600 Watts PSU. I thought Diablotek was good enough as a PSU brand. Should I exchange it for the Corsair GS600?

I picked up the Diablotek PSU because it was the only one in its price range that has 650 Watts. Why shouldn't I picked up that one? Are they that bad? I can still exchange it for a Corsair GS600 which cost the same but is just a 600 Watts PSU. I thought Diablotek was good enough as a PSU brand. Should I exchange it for the Corsair GS600?

The_Hermit_1971

everyone will tell you yes. You wouldn't be the first to suffer from an under performing lesser brand PSU

it may very well solve your problem too, corsair has a very good reputation.

its most likely ur OS, CPU/GPU temps, or power issues (in no particular order).

Instead of answering your question, I'm going to tell you what you should have upgraded to and why... because that's the opposite of what you want - and is so helpful..

 

 

On a serious note; I would assume a software problem - my first guess would be on Windows 8.

Thuganomic05

I picked up the Diablotek PSU because it was the only one in its price range that has 650 Watts. Why shouldn't I picked up that one? Are they that bad? I can still exchange it for a Corsair GS600 which cost the same but is just a 600 Watts PSU. I thought Diablotek was good enough as a PSU brand. Should I exchange it for the Corsair GS600?

The_Hermit_1971

What other brand is good besides Corsair?

What other brand is good besides Corsair?

The_Hermit_1971

I'll exchange it for the Corsair GS600 tomorrow but I don't think is the PSU. I used the old Corsair PSU as a test and the machine still freezes. I'll do another test with Windows 7 and tell you the results.

I tested the upgrade with a new installation of Windows 7 and the computer freezes anyway. It seems to be a faulty driver but I downloaded the latest driver from the motherboard website so I have no idea about what can be the problem. I hope this can be solved someday.

Are the temperatures of your CPU and GPU okay?

Get HWMonitor to see them.

xfx, coolermaster are decent brands.  Also I have some freezing problems with windows 8 also.  Whenever I try to open cpuz, or hwid, the laptop automatically freezes, forcing me to do a hard restart.  Windows 8 is a pOs.  Some of the stuff is good though, i kind of like the metro UI, and how easy it is to go to my email.

I'll pick up the Corsair Gaming Series GS600, is priced the same as the Diablotek and is a better quality PSU despite that it is rated 50 watts lower. Corsair is a well known brand for its quality PSU's. I know it because I have the Corsair CX500 for a little bit more than a year now and the rig ran with no problems with a AMD FX-4100, 8 Gigs of RAM and a GTX 260 Core 216 along with a couple of hard drives and DVD drives. Now I want to upgrade everything and want to make sure I'll get enough juice with a 600 watts power supply.

I installed GPU-Z and HWMonitor and I was really paying attention to the temperatures to find out if that's the reason. The temperatures of the cores are OK from 29° minimum to 62° maximum and about 50° average. The temperature of the GPU was also OK from 35° minumum to 62° maximum and 50° average.The System or motherboard temperature was also OK from 30° minimum to 61° maximum and about 40° average. So the hardware temperature apparently is not the reason unless the temperatures peaks when freezing are way higher than that but the monitoring software is also freezing before reading them. I also installed the latest drivers before playing so that's another discarted reason.

One last thing I can test is to install a better CPU cooler and run the game again. I have a Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO universal CPU cooler lying around from my previous rig which I can install to re-check the temperatures while playing. I'll do that and post the results here people. The game I'm playing is GTA IV which freezes after an hour or two of gaming. I ran the benchmark and it averaged about 22 FPS at a 1600 X 900 resolution and medium settings but freezes after an hour or two of gaming and sometimes even less.