I was wondering if I could find an answer to my problem. I have a home built system about 2 years old, though some components have been upgraded. Three months ago I began experiencing video distortion while playing fallout:new vegas. There would be all these blue characters that would pop up overlaying the graphics, and then the game would freeze. I thought it was specific to the game, but when I would reboot every now and then I would see them on the POST screen and as I entered windows 7. Didn't really freeze in windows, but if I went to a game, it would generally freeze and I would have to reboot. The system seemed to do better if I let it rest for a while. I obviously targeted the video card (Sapphire Radeon 4870 x2)first as possibly a heating problem. Went in and the GPU fan to 100%, and the computer would last a few minutes longer, but still freeze. Tried reinstalling an earlier driver set, and the problem would get better for a few days, then return The problem got consistently worse, and I eventually decided to get a new video card. I bought a PNY GTX 580 and the computer worked like new for two weeks. Now, I have had a few episodes of different video distortions when playing games, but no freezing. Once in windows, the screen blanked out and returned and windows said the video driver had recovered from a serious error. I don't have a spare computer or any friends here with even a PCI express slot to test the old card. I don't think its a power supply problem in that I had the same system that worked great for almost 2 years. I am now wondering about the memory, cpu, or MB. Tell me what you think
My system
Core I5/750 processor stock cooler
MSI
OCZ 700 W power supply
MSI P55-GD 65 motherboard
6 GB memory
Windows 7 home professional
new Geforce 580 GTX old Radeon 4870 x2
My system
Core I5/750 processor stock cooler
MSI
OCZ 700 W power supply
MSI P55-GD 65 motherboard
6 GB memory
Windows 7 home professional
new Geforce 580 GTX old Radeon 4870 x2
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