Problems With Crashing During Video Games

[Josh Dufresne]

A long while ago (~6 months ago), my pc crashed while I was playing League of Legends, it was a standard looking blue screen of death, but I ignored it hoping it wouldn't happen again. But recently it started to crash every single time that I try to play, anywhere from 10 to 30 minutes into playing. I've reinstalled Windows 7, upgraded to Windows 8, and I got a new SSD that I now use as my main hard drive. I don't know what is happening, and any help is appreciated.

 

[Thaisnang]

Laptop or Desktop?

 

[Josh Dufresne]

It's a desktop

 

[notherdude]

It's a desktop

Better tell us your full specs then - incl. power supply make and model and video card, but also motherboard, CPU, RAM etc.

 

[Thaisnang]

Then the problem can be on the mobo or the processor maybe their expiry is date near. Or it maybe be the RAM isn't just enough. I had a lenevo laptop years ago which crashed once while playing WoW. Few months later it started crashing after every 10-30 mins then battery stopped charging. I tried to fix it by installing OS and everything didn't work and I bought a new laptop. I still don't know what was the problem. How old is the hardware on your desktop? & what are your specs by the way?

 

[Josh Dufresne]

CPU: Intel Core i7 3770k
RAM: 16GB
GPU: Sapphire Radeon HD 6950
Motherboard: Gigabyte model Z68MA-D2H-B3
Not sure how to find out the power supply stuff, there is a big 850 on the thing though.
Anything else I should list?

 

[notherdude]

The fact that it happens regularly only after some time suggest an overheating issue, could be the video card, could be the CPU, check the fan/heatsinks on both for dust, and blow them off for starters, if it is still happening after that then you can run some other tests.

 

[Josh Dufresne]

There's no dust or anything in the case, but it is a really small case, and it doesn't really crash anymore if it's hot or cold in the room.

 

[Josh Dufresne]

So I took out my video card and tried blowing it off but nothing really came out, so I decided to go and get a can of compressed air. It actually got out a lot of dust I didn't know was in there. I'm going to try to stress test my PC now, so here's to hoping that it's now fixed.