Freezing after hours of play.

[bugilt]

Your CPU/RAM/Power Supply could be overheating due to the open ventilation.

Computer cases are designed to stream the various air intake fans across important device's heatsinks to assist whatever heatsink fans exist.

With an open case, you are lacking the front intake fan(s), the side intake fan, and any additional rear ventilation fans, found in most cases.

Without the air streams of a case, your ram is not getting any ventilation. The gap between the sticks of ram is almost enough to cause an area of motionless air, causing the Ram to actually be insulated and retain heat.

Its probably not as bad as I'm making it sound, but heat might be an issue.

Although, you did say that it stops once you restart WoW, so maybe an Addon you are using is causing a memory leak?

I've added a fan for the ram since that picture was taken. There is also a 10 inch fan blowing over the whole system from the top shelf now.

[bugilt]

If you have your sound settings in WoW to 'use hardware' or something like that try disabling it.

I forgot about sound on the other clients. I'm not sure what an overloaded onboard audio would do, but I just dropped the slaves audio.

[bugilt]

I'm going to leave it running while I go get something to eat. I'll check back in on it when I get back.

[Lilnipper]

Woot!!!! Austin, TX.. fuck yeah..
oh.. yeah.. sorry..

Could you take some more shots of your computer set up?
Looks, interesting. : )

[Ughmahedhurtz]

I would also check your addon memory. If you can force a UI garbage collection and it doesn't clear up the issue, then it's probably not mods. My main will tend to slow down occasionally (stutters when getting SCTD damage reports) but it clears up immediately if I force a garbage collection via PerformanceFu (FuBar addon).

[bugilt]

ATX wut!


My cpu is running a bit high, it hovers around 60-68 when running AV. I guess it's right for having a stock cooler.

[bugilt]

SS for you.

[bugilt]

I read a few threads about people having trouble with Quest Helper and it seems to help running carbonite quest instead.

[Lorune]

Out of personal experience i can also say that ArkInventory (all in 1 bag thingy) can cause a alot of problems with addon related crashes / unresponsiveness.

What happend was that i bound my B button on the paladin to Concerate and all the slaves still had the bag open bound to it. It looked funny when tanking, and i didn't care to much at lower levels yet to see what my slaves were doing. So every time i openend the bags it would leak a bit of memory, and after some time, especially in instances where i had to tank i noticed the memory on the slaves going higher and higher. At some point they would reach around 90mb each, and start becoming unresponsive and sometimes even crashed.

So you'd do well to evaluate your addons to see if one of them might be having a memory leak.