Recent content by catchthetide

Thanks, Hellfire, very helpful.

Just to update this ancient thread for anyone else googling around with the same problem, the issue stopped after I replaced the CPU's thermal paste again and re-seated the CPU, its heatsink, and the GPU on the motherboard. I'm not sure which component was the problem, but I'm guessing one was...

Hi all! I'm looking to build a cheap console-like gaming rig out of some old parts — preferably in a tower that takes up as little space as possible, since it will be going under the TV entertainment center. I have the following components already: Intel - Core i5-4460 3.2 GHz Quad-Core...

Since the Speccy link went down, here are my system specs again: Windows 10 Pro 64-bit Intel Core i5 4460 @ 3.20GHz 8.00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 799MHz MSI H81M-E34 (MS-7817) (SOCKET 0) 4095MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 (MSI) 931GB Seagate ST1000DM003-1ER162 (SATA) NVIDIA Virtual Audio Device (Wave...

arossetti, since I don't have a multimeter or another system to drop the 970 into, do you know of any way to test the GPU itself for issues beyond standard stress/benchmarking apps?

Hi All, I built a desktop this summer which was working perfectly well until a few weeks ago. Out of the blue, it started restarted (seemingly at random) while playing games. This can happen as soon as the game's open, or it can happen after a few minutes, or it can happen after many hours of...