Windows 10: Computer crashing, have no clue what it could possibly be

The title is mostly true, I do have an idea but I have no clue what this software could possibly be interacting with that makes it do this. Every time it crashes and I go to check my reliability history and it is ALWAYS whenever microsoft gameinput has a "successful application installation". This has been going on since about June of last year and stopped temporarily for a few months until last week. I have spent countless hours searching the internet to no avail, as far as I'm aware there is no fix to aside from swapping out your CPU but I at least need to see what could be causing this and

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all games crash!

I suggest you run rthdribl > http://www.daionet.gr.jp/~masa/archives/rthdribl_1_2.zip
Increase the window size step by step and watch your vga temps permanently.
What happens?
If it crashes, run at stock speeds as suggested before and retry.

P.S.: When your system locks, does the display signal turn off after a time?
Stuttering sound or no sound at all when freezing?
What X1800XT model do you own exactly?

 

AMD FX OC'ers Club

That's what the auto setting will do since you're over the 1333 mark it jumps to the next step which isn't listed or officially supported I assume by that ram.

At this point though I would suggest dropping the multi one step or .5 so that we can get something stable and possibly take the heat issue out of the picture for now.

 

is it possible to hand build a motherboard?

Might I suggest you simply build a computer, making notes and taking pictures step by step. Most people (probably including your teacher) have no idea even where to start building a computer. You'll do fine, and if you get stuck we're here to help ya out! *Toast :toast: