Computer crashes when gaming and my temperatures are good

[Zulfarror]

As the title says, when playing Starcraft 2 or WoW, the game will randomly crash for no reason.. According to core temp when I play I barely go above 40 Celsius, so I really have no idea what could be causing this..

Im using the GeForce GTX 560 ti as a video card and that should be fine for these games, so I don't understand what could be causing this.

[Fuzzykins]

Try updating your drivers. That's usually the forefront issue.

[Nellah]

Any error message on crash? What are your GPU temperatures? Any overclocks going on (memory, GPU core/shaders/memory, CPU)?

[Zulfarror]

Thanks Fuzzy, I'm updating them as I write this.

For Nellah, no I don't get any error messages, and no overclocks either. What program should I use to see my GPU temperatures, I have CPU-Z and core temp at the moment.

[Xuany]

Thanks Fuzzy, I'm updating them as I write this.

For Nellah, no I don't get any error messages, and no overclocks either. What program should I use to see my GPU temperatures, I have CPU-Z and core temp at the moment.

I don't think CPU-Z can check temps? or are you talking about their Hardware Monitor program. If anything I use CPUID HW and it seems to be pretty accurate with other programs.

[Deleted]

Could be conflicting drivers? I had that a while ago and my pc kept rebooting/crashing and what not.
Check google how to remove them tho, can't recall =<

[satyrikon]

Check with your card manufacturer site, if you have a MSI card you can use MSI-Afterburner to watch that kinda stuff - works nice / can set your overclocks etc.

Alot of cards find stability through upping the voltage by .025v, dont dick with that stuff unless you know what your doing tho.

[Nellah]

MSI Afterburner works with all NVIDIA cards: I have it on my EVGA 9800GT, EVGA GTX275, and my Galaxy GTX460, it can read temperatures and adjust clocks and voltages just fine. Haven't tested it with my 6950, so I can't speak for AMD compatibility, but OP has a GTX560 Ti so it'll work fine.

[D_K_night]

whoa - those games shouldn't stress your system very much. when you say "crash" we need more specifics. is it crashing to the desktop? is it hard hanging up(forcing you to reboot)? need more info...we can help you more...

[lilatia]

Power supply mabey?

[Zulfarror]

I don't think CPU-Z can check temps? or are you talking about their Hardware Monitor program. If anything I use CPUID HW and it seems to be pretty accurate with other programs.

Yeah CPU-Z is not for temps, I was just listing what I had so people could suggest better programs!

Could be conflicting drivers? I had that a while ago and my pc kept rebooting/crashing and what not.
Check google how to remove them tho, can't recall =<

I'm not too savy so the only drivers I know of are my video card drivers..

Check with your card manufacturer site, if you have a MSI card you can use MSI-Afterburner to watch that kinda stuff - works nice / can set your overclocks etc.

Alot of cards find stability through upping the voltage by .025v, dont dick with that stuff unless you know what your doing tho.

Nope, my card is the GTX 560 Ti, but I'll check out the afterburner.

MSI Afterburner works with all NVIDIA cards: I have it on my EVGA 9800GT, EVGA GTX275, and my Galaxy GTX460, it can read temperatures and adjust clocks and voltages just fine. Haven't tested it with my 6950, so I can't speak for AMD compatibility, but OP has a GTX560 Ti so it'll work fine.

I'm downloading the MSI Afterburner now, and I'll update once it's done.

whoa - those games shouldn't stress your system very much. when you say "crash" we need more specifics. is it crashing to the desktop? is it hard hanging up(forcing you to reboot)? need more info...we can help you more...

Yeah it's hard hanging up, if thats the technical term lol, it crashes so the sound starts buzzing, the screen freezes, and I have to reboot.

Power supply mabey?

The power suply is the Corsair 650TX v2

---------- Post added 2012-01-29 at 05:41 PM ----------

Ok, the Afterburner is downloaded and this is what it says.

It won't let me change the Core Voltage, it doesn't show any type of number for it.
The Core Clock is at 900 MHz, which is the medium speed, and I can change it
The Shader Clock is at 1800 MHz, which is the medium speed, and I can change it
The Memory Clock is at 2106 MHz, which is a bit above medium speed, and I can change it
and the Fan speed is at 30, which is the minimum speed, and I can change it.


Edit, forgive that weird double post

[Zulfarror]

Ok the thread kind of died down but the crashes are getting really weird. I was playing WoW, experienced the same type of crash. I rebooted, and literally 5 seconds into the game it crashed again. Above you can see my stats from the Afterburner, hopefully something there is wrong and it can be fixed, but please guys any ideas as to what is going wrong?