Freezing during World of Warcraft

[tiger025]

I'm having a problem recently where World of Warcraft freezes and then it locks up my PC. This would happen every few hours or sometimes more often. I saw a little artificating when it did this, and I thought it might be the video card going out, so I bought a new GTX 260, and for a few days the freezeing did not occur. But now it seems to be freezing again. I also reformatted and did a clean install of WinXP Pro, updated to SP3, and updated the GTX 260 drivers to the latest.

I have:

Motherboard - EVGA 122-CK-NF63-TR LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI ATX Intel Motherboard

Processor - Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 Conroe 2.66GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor Model BX80557E6700

Video Card - EVGA 896-P3-1265-AR GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 896MB 448-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16

RAM - OCZ Platinum 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model OCZ2P10664GK

Primary Hard Drive [Current Windows Install] - SAMSUNG SpinPoint T Series HD501LJ 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive

CPU Fan - ZALMAN CNPS9700 LED 110mm 2 Ball CPU Cooler

Power Supply - ENERMAX Liberty ELT620AWT 620W ATX12V Power Supply (+12V1@22A, +12V2@22A)

I know the video card isn't the problem, does it seem likely that this is being caused by a hardware problem or is there some possibility that this is a wow software problem?

This is a sceenshot of what happened right as it was freezing one time:



I'm wondering what I can do to find the cause of this.

[Blink-Twice]

It looks like you have an out of date addon in your WoW UI.
Try turning off all your Addons, and/or checking if some of them are out of date.

[Aus_Karlos]

Power Supply - ENERMAX Liberty ELT620AWT 620W ATX12V Power Supply (+12V1@22A, +12V2@22A)

This PSU does not have the require wattage and Amp to run your entire system.
Just to run the card you need an Output of 500W with 36A on a 12v Rail or combined.
Even with your combined total on your 12v it just wont be enough as the rest of your system will require some of that aswell.

I recommend upgrading to a 750W PSU with a combined 12v of +60A.

Here are some i recommend.
CORSAIR CMPSU-750TX 750W ATX12V (Non-SLI)
Thermaltake W0116RU 750W (SLI but not for high-end 9 series or the 200 series)

If you do wish to SLI in the future you will again require a more powerful PSU. So if that is your next step i would suggest you get an adequate for SLIing 2x GTX 260 which will be about 950W with 70A - 80A.

Please do not choose the cheapest PSU you find. Many cheap products are made with low quality capacitors and will not last very long under gaming conditions.

Product references
www.newegg.com

[Mcninjaguy]

please buy a good psu you won't regret this investment

PC and Power Cooling 750w
$119
after rebate $79
single 12v rail with 60A
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817341011

at 850w PSU
Corsair 850w psu
$149
after rebate $129
single 12v rail with 70A
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817139009

[tiger025]

Thanks for the responses.
I have tried running wow with no addons, and It still crashes and freezes in the same way.

You really think its the PSU causing the problem? Because I was using a 8800gtx for 1 year with this exact same setup and had no problems. I just upgraded the GPU to a GTX260 like a week ago to see if the GPU Was the problem. I see this may be slightly underpowered for a GTX260, but is there really that good a chance that a new PSU might fix this?

Either way I will probably get one, because it is a pretty easy thing to upgrade.
Both of those PSU's you posted looked good, however are there good Modular PSU's anymore? I've been looking some and it doesn't seem like there are very many anymore. Is there some disadvantage to modular PSU's or something now that doesn't make them that good?

[tiger025]

I've never heard of this brand, but does this PSU look like it would be good:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817256009

Also is it better to have a single 12V rail, versus like 3 or 4 12V rails? How much of a difference does that make.

[koala]

Silverstone is one of the top names for PSUs. Good choice.

Manufacturers have started to use single +12V rails over the last year or so, but it doesn't make much difference, maybe slightly better efficiency. My current Toughpower PSU has 4 rails, and my next one will have just 1 rail.