Recent content by jraff

Ok, it's been a few days, and the problem is still there, unfortunately. All my drivers are up to date, I've got the latest directX, I'm gaming with lowered settings to minimize the heat, I've sped up the fans in my case... Even though I don't think heat is the problem, since I've seen my...

Well I had the chance to play Oblivion for a few hours yesterday, and while it did crash at some point,, it wasn't the same problem anymore, so it appears that something - probably the soudn drivers- fixed it!

Well you know what I've just noticed? I never installed the proper drivers for my integrated sound card! It just says "high definition audio", doesn't mention realtek at all (only my LAN driver, that I got on gigabyte's site, mentions realtek). I'll try installing them, but, following your...

Well for the record I tried lowering my settings (thinking it would probably help with the heating), and I seem to get longer playing time - I tried morrowind and oblivion for half an hour each with no lock ups, hopefully this will work!

Wow, thanks for all the quick answers! I already tried to update DX10 to the latest version to be sure, before I posted, and it didn't work, obviously. Will check the GPU with more care! Is there a way that I can check the temp *while* I'm playing?

Hi everyone, I recently built my first build, and am very happy with it, it runs like a charm! Except, you know, for games. All the game I've installed so far end up freezing up: Civ4 : can play for a few hours if I'm lucky, but sooner or later the screen freezes and gets "blocky"...

Yay, thanks! Off to the shop I go...

www.microbytes.com , they are in montreal (me too). I'm not in love with them, but as stated above it's my only option for financing the whole thing, ie, they're the only parts store in montreal that has financing plans with my bank. Well to be honest, only the ones that were linked on OCZ's...

Thanks a lot for your answers, it really helped me make up my mind! I can't find the info you mentioned about the PSU, so Ill stick with this one anyway - I read reviews that said it was very stable, so I'll hope it's true. You convinced me to go for the p43-ds3L, but the shop I'll buy at...

Hi Everyone, Long time lurker, first time poster... After years spent lusting for a new computer (literally - apart from an EeePc, my last build was an AMD K6-3, in 2000!), I'm finally ready to splurge a bit and buy/build a new PC this week-end. As far as needs go, I will mostly use...