I recently upgraded from a i3 540 to a used i7 870 but ever since i put it in my freezes my PC when playing games. First when i got this and installed it i mildly oc'ed to 3.7 GHz, it would freezes commonly (a couple minutes in) when playing games, and when i say freeze, i mean gridlock my PC so that the keyboard and mouse don't work and i have to hold in the power button. So i assumed i oc'ed it wrong and i just put it to stock and used it. But now it randomly did the exact same thing (after maybe 3 hour of gameplay). This never happened when i had my i3. Also this is not a cooling issue, the display on my motherboard said it was at 30 Celsius when it crashed.
Here are my PC specs.
i7-870
(previous CPU) i3 540 oc'ed @ 3.9 ghz
600 watt Power supply (a cheap diablotek 2 years old).
4gb Corsair vengeance ram
EVGA p55le motherboard
EVGA Geforce 460 SE oc'ed to 800 core
3 SATA hardrives of various sizes
common DVD drive.
What do you guys think may be the problem?
Here are my PC specs.
i7-870
(previous CPU) i3 540 oc'ed @ 3.9 ghz
600 watt Power supply (a cheap diablotek 2 years old).
4gb Corsair vengeance ram
EVGA p55le motherboard
EVGA Geforce 460 SE oc'ed to 800 core
3 SATA hardrives of various sizes
common DVD drive.
What do you guys think may be the problem?