The list is, of course for your whole computer. Thermaltake and CoolerMaster should be avoided.Ī handy list of power supplies based on what graphics card you have ( or are thinking of upgrading to). You can count on Corsair, Seasonic, PC Power and Cooling, XFX, Silverstone, Enermax, OCZ and Antec for quality units across their entire lineup. You will not be charged as long as you send the old part back within like a week of receiving the new one.Īs far as power supplies go a quality 550w unit will allow you to run any single graphics card on the market including the $500 GTX 680. Newegg will send you the new part before you send the old one back if you give them a credit card number as collateral. If one is bad you want a new kit unless you can get the identical same one. Memtest runs outside of Windows no there is no system reserved RAM not getting tested. The Windows memory tool is no where near as comprehensive. This is all greek to me so any beginner pointers on how to troubleshoot and test would be very helpful! I also get the BSOD sometimes where it says something about Physical memory dump. I also have a problem where if I'm gaming and then press Alt+tab to minimize or switch windows, the graphics card will get messed up or downclock or something and the game's FPS will drop drastically to like 5-10 FPS until I reboot the computer.

Is it crashing because I'm doing too many things that my graphics card can't handle? If so, why is it crashing instead of stuttering? It's not consistent enough to know what's causing it but my habits are to game on the 2nd monitor with Windows Media Center playing live cable tv on the 3rd monitor AND browsing and chatting on the 1st monitor. But when I'm gaming on HIGH settings such as Borderlands 2, it will just crash on me. I can play 3 concurrent 1080p youtube videos on all 3 monitors without any lag. There's no visual lag or stutter when moving windows or anything. The 3rd is connected to the onboard HD3000 DVI port.

The 2nd is 1920X1200 connected to the GTX460's DVI. The first is 1920X1080 and connected to the GTX460's microHDMI. My desktop is a z68 mobo, i5-2500k stock, 8gb ram, and a GTX460 (768mb). A hardware diagnostics test of some sort would help give me an objective answer though. I'm not 100% sure but that's all I can think of. This is my first computer I've built and everything is working great but I think when I switched from 1 monitor to a 3-monitor setup I've been having more problems. Is there a way to know what's failing? Graphics or ram or something else?

Games will also freeze or crash on me abruptly as well. I dont know why but programs are always crashing on my desktop.

Windows 10 programs crashing