Hi everyone,
So I recently GOT into building computers, I've had a gaming rig for a while but I just did a hardware upgrade by myself for the first time (CPU and motherboard, MSI Z390M GE AC). I accidentally had the mobo touching the case in a few spots when I tried to boot it. It worked fine but I would get frequent BSODs or freezing.
My buddy at work HELPED me reseat it and we updated all the drivers and stress tested everything to make sure things weren't damaged (CPU, GPU, RAM, new SSD and new HDD).
When I play a game the PC will freeze about 10 minutes in, sometimes longer sometimes shorter depending on the load of the game. However, when I activate game boost the games run perfectly fine for hours.
So my question is: Why do games cause my computer to freeze when not overclocked? Is it because of a possible motherboard short? Or is it MAYBE something else?There is so many reasons it could be.
Please supply a speccy report the program is available here       https://www.ccleaner.com/speccy
After the program runs select file, publish snapshot and copy the url here for review.

Also can you give the make and model of the power supply.

If you can supply some pictures of the inside of the computer this might help as well.  Quote from: Lisa_maree on August 13, 2020, 03:14:05 PM

There is so many reasons it could be.
Please supply a speccy report the program is available here       https://www.ccleaner.com/speccy
After the program runs select file, publish snapshot and copy the url here for review.

Also can you give the make and model of the power supply.

If you can supply some pictures of the inside of the computer this might help as well.

There is so many reasons it could be.
Please supply a speccy report the program is available here       https://www.ccleaner.com/speccy
After the program runs select file, publish snapshot and copy the url here for review.

Also can you give the make and model of the power supply.

If you can supply some pictures of the inside of the computer this might help as well. 

Thanks for the Photo's and speccy report. I have checked thru the report and the only thing I can see is is the 2 different memory modules, g-skill and kingston. They are in the correct slots thou.

When the speccy report was run you were only using the first 3 gb of G.Skill 8gb modules and as you play the game you are using more of the g.skills memory until you have used 16 GB then the Kingston memory comes into play.

I suspect there is a problem with either the timing on the Kingston memory or there is a fault in that memory, why it didn't show up in the stress test I can't answer.

As the Kingston memory is from 2014 perhaps try the computer with only the G.skill memory installed.

Hi

So even with the Kingston memory out the computer still locked up? You do know that Game boast optimizes memory use. When the computer freezes can you ctrl alt delete and check task manager. If you do that and shut down the game does windows still work ?
if windows is still running then it is a fault with the game or memory. This could be software errors on the drive caused with the games locking up and crashing when the computer was intermittent before your friend helped you re build it.
I would un install the game which is locking up and re install it.
Also is there anything in the windows logs showing what is causing the crash.
How to get to the logs is explained here https://kb.blackbaud.com/articles/Article/75433#:~:text=To%20access%20the%20Event%20Viewer,(ex%3A%20Application%2C%20System)

Wrong RAM...

Are you overclocking?  If so undo it and test again you might want to also try uninstalling MSI Afterburner then reboot and test again.