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[gameyoda]

I just got my new comp a few weeks ago and I already got my first problem with it.
When I play games (it doesn't really matter which ones, from warcraft 3 to Farcry 2) the computer has random freezes. I dont know what this is causing at the moment, I first thought it might be my video-card (as it got really hot), but after a new cooling and all on it I now know it isnt.
So I thought, perhaps its my memory, but when I use the build in memory-test from vista, it doesnt give a single error in it.
So now Im all confused and hoped you guys can help my out .

My system setup is:
Windows Vista 64-bit Home Premium
A PSU of 700w
one ATI Radeon 4870
A AMD Phenom 9750
4GB RAM
and a K9A2 Platinum V2 mobo
(if needed I can also post my hdd and disk drivers, but that doesnt seem necassary to me.)

[vmanisme]

it doesent matter if you got a good cooling for your video card it will still freeze if its bad.

[kls85]

The issue may lie in your graphic card where the card isn't able to cope with the constant changing of its speed.

If you have a Sapphire HD4870 512MB there is a bios update, if you got another card there is a work around on the internet.

[vmanisme]

yeah im pretty sure its the video card because my laptop has exact same problem with some games if freeze's out of nowhere and HP said it was video card problems

[kls85]

Notebooks and desktop has different issues.
The HD 4870 is the one there has this sort of issue (not sure about the HD 4850 or other versions).

For notebooks if your using a NVIDIA graphics then its a manufacture defect, not from the notebook maker, but from the graphics chipset plant.

[gameyoda]

I first had 2x 4850s in it, but it still had the same problem (only faster then now) so I traded those in for this one (it has 1024mb memory by the way) and still have it.
But how do I fix it? Because I did hear that updating the BIOS can damage it :/ .

[Cheetah]

[gameyoda]

Ok, thanks all . Got time to try it soon (I hope).