I am honestly at the end of my tether. I have tried for months to get my desktop to work properly to no avail. I received a prebuilt desktop for Christmas from buildyourbox. It is fast, has a lot of space, and is capable of a lot. In the past I could play Skyrim for a few hours without being frozen on. Within the past four months however, I can maybe get into 20 minutes of play before a freeze requiring a hard reset. The same even happens when the computer isn't running a game on standby, I just left Steam open for 10 minutes before it froze.
Initially I thought maybe it was the temperature, so I bought some computer duster and clean the fan. The loud noises of the fan eventually left and I thought I saw improvement, but the freezing persists. I've been through all sorts of memtest and afterburner (which seemed to work now and then, increasing the memory clock), but I have no idea what I'm doing.
It's such a nice system and it's a shame it's being this troublesome. Please can someone help me once and for all.
This is my system:
http://www.buildyourbox.co.uk/pc/phoenix-x4-gaming-pc
Initially I thought maybe it was the temperature, so I bought some computer duster and clean the fan. The loud noises of the fan eventually left and I thought I saw improvement, but the freezing persists. I've been through all sorts of memtest and afterburner (which seemed to work now and then, increasing the memory clock), but I have no idea what I'm doing.
It's such a nice system and it's a shame it's being this troublesome. Please can someone help me once and for all.
This is my system:
http://www.buildyourbox.co.uk/pc/phoenix-x4-gaming-pc