Looks like Skyrim may have killed a 2nd GPU of mine
Running fine, get that epic parallax mod...soon after it all goes to hell
Go figure I try to push too hard and it breaks. Skyrim killed my old crappy 260GTX 896 mb (100% skyrim mods fault
that video was so old and crappy to mod with rofl. Even vanilla skyrim got 40 fps with that shitty card rofl) and I got an upgrade to a 660GTX lol...but 2gb video ram isn't really enough for a heavy modded game. And my video card gets far too low FPS in all other games I play, so it might have been caused by another reason or just died. It came with factory overclock, and supposedly overclock breaks GPU's a lot quicker than non-overclocked ones.
I know my performance in EVERY game, has been VERY poor compared to what my system should run at. DayZ standalone lags like hell, skyrim is very poor performance even non-modded...a lot of other games (especially those that are graphically intensive) are very bad performance and they used to perform a lot better. Like dayz I never had lag/stutter on me and it suddenly started FPS dropping a lot (from 60 fps average, to 30 fps average and lower in cities)...never did that before.
Here is my system
i5 650 CPU 3.3GHZ (my cpu IS really old and a crappy 1st gen one)
geforce 660GTX 2gb (probably on its way to dying)
8gig DDR3 ram (did ram test, its fine, but it is as old as my CPU)
Windows 7 64bit
no ssd drive
pretty sure onboard sound, as I don't recall ever buying a sound card and I'm 99% sure I never see one get put in when dad is building my PC.
600+ wat power supply (might be an issue, it isn't that old though...same age as my GPU)
So, once I confirm its 100% the GPU (ruled out ram already), I'll be without a PC for a bit till I buy a gtx970 4gb card...and I'll be going with a normal non-overclocked one as I don't want an overclocked one again.
As for what happens. ANY game I play, ANY game...display drivers crash a few minutes in, monitor blacks out and my system freezes...display drivers recover and about half a minute later monitor comes back. If I keep playing the game, the PC locks up...I hear a loud long non-stop high pitched beep (from my speakers) and my PC hardlocks. Then I reboot it, it gets stuck on press any key to continue...reboot again and it goes through. It only happens when the GPU is under any kind of load at all.
Supposedly, I asked on another forum about what it is...and...a GPU doesn't have to have graphical anomalies (mine doesn't) if its broken. It can just cause display drivers to crash and freeze the PC under use. Which I guess does make it harder to test.
I'll be letting my techy dad deal with it though, I know there is a program that stresses the GPU to see if its broken or not...but its likely to 100% break it if its broken. And it will die vastly faster. But it could be a power supply issue or a motherboard issue...maybe hard drive can do that too, but that doesn't seem as likely. I can use the internet just fine, it only happens when playing games.