cpu dead?

[Etacovda]

Right, long story short. 2500+ overclocked to 2.3ish ghz. Passes prime. Ti4200, works fine. 512 geil - i assume this is fine, it passes memtest86.

Quake3 with bots - they skip a bit.... its almost like watching a strobe at times, especially if they get rocket hit and fly across the map... its not terrible, but its totally noticable.

Bf 1942 with bots - when something of merit happens (ie explosions, i start shoot at bots, lots of them die at once etc) i get really big chunks and miss frames...

Counterstrike, in large servers my recoil is shot - nothing hits the centre of the crosshair - sometimes it does, others it doesnt... this happens on lan too.

Rig in Sig. Cable connection.

Im pulling my hair out here, its really frustrating I think my monitor doesnt like over riding refresh rates too much either - 107T 'flat' screen phillips - my 107E looks smoother with it, tho, and another machine on this monitor exhibits similar symptoms.



anyone experienced this?

ps - no longer in RAID

 

[kllrnohj]

some things to try

1) back everything down to stock speeds and see if it still happens

2) (if 1 solved prob, then slowly oc till it happens again)

3) update ALL drivers (chipset, vid card, sound card, etc....)

4) check for patces for your games

5) update windows (just as precaution)

6) check for spyware/adware (adaware + spybot search and destroy - use em both, and don't forget to update em)

7) disable ALL background progs

8) back down game quality settings and see if that helps (and try a lower refresh rate)

thats all i can think of right now....