Games constantly crashing

Already took it back before I read this, I shouldn't have to really stress about these things too much seeming it's so new and all. They told me 2 hours but it's been 6.5 hours since I took it in so they're probably having as much fun as what I had with it. Hopefully it wont be a month before I get it back now. I don't mind problem solving these things but when you fork out $1500 you'd expect it to work out of the box. Thanks for the suggestions anyway Chris.

No problem. I figured it might've been to late but i thought I'd give it a shot. Let us know what it was when you find out.

It's been roughly 3 days and I've not received word of my PC being fixed. They probably don't have a clue either.

That sucks. I'd call them up if you already havne't. If they haven't figured it out by now, their probably going to set you up with a new one. But I'd still like to know what it was if they figure it out.

just a thought, what video driver are you using ? i know there are issues with the latest driver from nvidia, the 7517, it seems to be causing lock up's among other things use the 7.15.11.7516 and see what happens. tell the repair people

Hey Stoneys, thanks for the suggestion but when I had the machine I tried 3 different drivers including the one you mentioned (175.70, 175.16 and 177.41).

I haven't really stopped thinking about it since I took it in. My logical brainwaves suggested that once the 8800 gets to around 64 Degrees its fan ramps up or something happens and the power needed to power everything including the new fan speed puts too much pressure on the PSU (500W which should be enough unless the PSU has some sort of issues dealing with large drains). This results in more power being allocated to the 8800, therefore, starves the motherboard (choking the CPU, memory), hard drives or it just can't allocate enough power to supply everything and it all just decides to die. This power starvation results in none of the usual problems associated with overheating which I thought of a few days back. I should have realised this originally as I've seen what happens when graphics cards overheat.

This is all just speculation and stuff I thought about in the endless boring periods at work.

i think you may be on the right track , i would try another psu, 66ow at the very least. 500w is just about the min required for sli, go here and you can see which psu is required for your system, hope this helps. go to tools and the free version
is on the left.

Link.

eXtreme Outer Vision - eXtreme tools for computer enthusiasts

What a convenient little site. Judging by the result it gave me, 500W should be enough.

Just heard back from them then and they said they replaced the Memory and the video card and it started working, though they did not give me any specifics on what it was. It only took them a week to do this......*sigh*

Though is most likely what they did and the reason it took so long was so they could set it up like how it was before.

Thanks to everyone for their help/suggestions on this, it's great to know there's always people willing to help on the net. This is one site I'll definitely visit often.