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When I play any game (whether it be CS, Far Cry, BF2, or Civ4) I get this freezing problem. After playing for a while (maybe 10 or 20 minutes) the game freezes and the sound starts looping then after about 5-10 seconds it goes back to normal gameplay like nothing happened at all. The freezing becomes more and more frequent making it intolerable. This has been happening ever since I first built my computer, I'm still yet to solve it 4 months and counting.
I have all the latest drivers, including the latest BIOS. At first I thought it was my video card, but I put my brother's 6800GT in my system and still got the freezing in the games. The blame was next placed on the CPU, I've heard many cases of dual cores acting odd with games. Tried process affinity and the AMD dual core optimizer, still nothing. So my brother let my put his CPU in my computer, but to my surprise the games continued to freeze. Now I'm starting to think it's my motherboard, though I'm not exactly sure. Also something that's interesting, I ran memtest and my RAM failed with like 5 errors after 400%. But when I put new RAM in my computer my games still freeze! I don't want to completely rule out this being a software problem, maybe it's a setting somewhere that I'm yet to find, everything I've tried fails so I don't know what to think. $1000 computer and I can't even use it for the reason I bought it for...games! Any ideas? Thanks for any help.
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+
XFX GeForce 7600GT
Asus A8N-SLI
1 GB RAM
I have all the latest drivers, including the latest BIOS. At first I thought it was my video card, but I put my brother's 6800GT in my system and still got the freezing in the games. The blame was next placed on the CPU, I've heard many cases of dual cores acting odd with games. Tried process affinity and the AMD dual core optimizer, still nothing. So my brother let my put his CPU in my computer, but to my surprise the games continued to freeze. Now I'm starting to think it's my motherboard, though I'm not exactly sure. Also something that's interesting, I ran memtest and my RAM failed with like 5 errors after 400%. But when I put new RAM in my computer my games still freeze! I don't want to completely rule out this being a software problem, maybe it's a setting somewhere that I'm yet to find, everything I've tried fails so I don't know what to think. $1000 computer and I can't even use it for the reason I bought it for...games! Any ideas? Thanks for any help.
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+
XFX GeForce 7600GT
Asus A8N-SLI
1 GB RAM
