computer dying???

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tyl2704

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K, so I just got my comp up and running after building it....and boy is it fast. It is destroying every game I have...except after 30 minutes. What I mean by that is when I loaded up crysis it was playing through perfectly, it auto detected the settings at very high for everything which was amazing. After around 30 minutes it started stuttering more and more as I played. I popped back in Bioshock and C&C3 again and they both played perfect. Why is it that Crysis played fine for around 20 minutes then all of a sudden started to crap out....oh and get this; I lowered the settings all the way down to medium and it still stuttered the same amount...WTF!?
I have an idea that it could be bottle necked or something, but I'm kinda new to this stuff....so is it the game or my hardware acting up? My friend mentioned something about a memory leak....not sure what that is.

here are my specs:

GIGABYTE GA-X38-DS4 LGA 775 Intel X38 ATX Intel Motherboard

EVGA 512-P3-N802-A1 GeForce 8800GT Superclocked 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 HDCP

OCZ GameXStream OCZ700GXSSLI ATX12V 700W Power Supply 100 - 240 V

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield 2.4GHz 2 x 4MB L2 Cache LGA 775

CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (4 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800

Western Digital Raptor WD1500ADFD 150GB 10,000 RPM 16MB

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 (Perpendicular Recording) ST3500630AS 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA
 
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I've heard that the first thing many do with a new 8800 is remove the heatsink, clean off and reapply the thermal paste, then reassemble the heatsink. Apparently they do a pretty crappy job at the factory. Given that you play for 30 minutes (and get your card nice and hot) before it begins to stutter, it sounds be a heat issue.

I am just repeating what I've heard people say about 8800's, so if anyone else can chime in a verify/deny what I am saying...
 
wow, really? Crap I didnt think Id have to do all that....not that I dont want to....it's just that I'm such a pc noob when it comes to hat stuff. I guess I'll give it a shot, any other suggestions?

EDIT: I dont know if it could be the heat thing you said. I just turned on my comp after it was off all night staying cool. Crysis again was stuttering, other games were not.
 
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Oh yea I forgot to mention I have vista ultimate 64-bit edition. Would that effect anything?

I was looking through the cyrsis files and I found crysis64.exe next to the normal crysis.exe.....woud the crysis64.exe work better on my comp??

-sry for the double post.


***Also, how can it be the heat if I can play every other game I have (bioshock, etc.) at full flawlessly and crysis stutters even when I lower it to medium or low?.....that doesn't make sense. It seems like its a problem in crysis.
 
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Are you sure it's the game? I would do a stress test to see if maybe your system is unstable and Crysis is the only game running hard enough to show you that. I don't know how these games compare to each other as far as the stress they put on your setup, but it might be worth a look. Cooling may be the problem. Maybe your thermal paste isn't cured yet, depending how new this system is.
 
I could see how crysis would be the only pushing it hard enoug...but then why would it stutter on low? I have a much worse computer that plays crysis on low perfectly.

The computer is only two days old.
 
how do I perform a stress test?

also, are we positive it isnt a problem with crysis? should I reinstall it and see what happens?
 
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