game performance?

[paceman]

Read somewhere yesterday that Avast antivirus can cause a BSOD with BF3. So I figure what the heck, I'll turn it off for a while and see if that's it. I'm totally grasping at straws right now.

[paceman]

Okay - that wasn't it....... Didn't really think my AV was causing it, but it didn't hurt to try.

Guess I'll go look at my RAM timings.

[Timi]

Those Q6600 chips should clock alot further than that. I had mine running at 3.4ghz on air without an issue.

It probably would go higher. But if going from 2.4 to 2.7 didn't make a single difference, I would imagine going higher won't help either. I'm sure my video card is also a limiting factor here.

I just need to drop $500 on a new rig!

[vprong]

Quickest way to check is to just pull 1 stick out and see if you're stable.

Okay - that wasn't it....... Didn't really think my AV was causing it, but it didn't hurt to try.

Guess I'll go look at my RAM timings.

[{CLR} Cobalt]

Asus Rampage III Intel X58
I7 920 2.6 (currently overclocked to 3.2)
12GB Corsair Ram
EVGA GTX465 1GB RAM
Apache

Apache you should be able to take that 920 to 4.0 easily on water. You still got the Corsair right. My 930 is at 21x191 with 1.33v. First time I went up I didnt increase the voltage and it crashed back out. I did a little research and found that the 930 was runnin stable at 1.33 . Soon as I upped the voltage it was fine. Runs cool at around 60c. Just make sure everything else stays the same on voltage and speeds. Your board probably ties some stuff in.

[Apache Warrior]

I haven't overclocked it higher because everything is running smooth at the present settings. I probably should kick it up to 4.0.
The nice thing about this MOBO is it has two BIOS. I keep one stock and the other OC'ed.
Apache

[paceman]

Okay - that wasn't it....... Didn't really think my AV was causing it, but it didn't hurt to try.

Guess I'll go look at my RAM timings.

My timings were good for the memory I have.
4 sticks of
CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066
for a total of 4GB

MOBO was set to DDR2-1066
Timings were 5-5-5-18

I went ahead and changed all the memory settings to auto and thought I had a winner. I played almost 5 games before the BSOD, which happened while I was on the end of round screen waiting for the next round to start, so nothing was really going on.....

[paceman]

Spent almost 2 hours running Windows Memory test. 7 Passes, all clean.

[Apache Warrior]

How about your PSU?
Apache

[drunken_chef]

I use both EVGA Precision and MSI Afterburner and haven't had an issue.

some people do, some people don't. of course since paceman didn't reply I'll never know if it effects him.

[vprong]

It's physically having 4 slots in use at once that can cause issues, even if all your RAM is perfectly fine. This has been a long standing issue with motherboards regardless of chipset for decades. Try shutting down, removing 1, and booting up to test it. MOBOs are good at detecting your default timings so AUTO probably just set it to 1066. I would try 800 if you want to use all 4.

My timings were good for the memory I have.
4 sticks of
CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066
for a total of 4GB

MOBO was set to DDR2-1066
Timings were 5-5-5-18

I went ahead and changed all the memory settings to auto and thought I had a winner. I played almost 5 games before the BSOD, which happened while I was on the end of round screen waiting for the next round to start, so nothing was really going on.....

[paceman]

I use both EVGA Precision and MSI Afterburner and haven't had an issue.

some people do, some people don't. of course since paceman didn't reply I'll never know if it effects him.

I don't know what either of those pieces of software are, I don't use either.

[drunken_chef]

thank you for replying sir.

[JohnyRico]

Is anyone else having the game crash back to the server select screen? I get it about once an hour.

[paceman]

Is anyone else having the game crash back to the server select screen? I get it about once an hour.

Yes I get that also, not as frequently as the BSOD, but it does happen about once every 4-5 games.