Freezing after hours of play.

[bugilt]

After a few hours of playing wow my machine freezes every minute for about 2 seconds. Does anyone experience something similar?

[Kedash00]

is it a labtop or dekstop? and if you reboot does it start running normally?

[bugilt]

If I restart the wows it runs fine.

It's a desktop pc -
Core 2 quad q9450
8800gt 512mb
4gb ram
2 hard drives - Drive 1 main and os
Drive 2 slaves

[Vipeax]

Any addons killing your RAM? I have to do /uireload after some time, because of it (boxing 5 seems to kill RAM, especially with quest helper).

[mlwhitt]

Does your system have good Ventilation?

What is the wattage on your powersupply. I have an 8800 GT OC 512mb and I know that I can get some freezes do to running a 350 watt power supply.

[bugilt]

Does your system have good Ventilation?

What is the wattage on your powersupply. I have an 8800 GT OC 512mb and I know that I can get some freezes do to running a 350 watt power supply.

I have a 5 hundo watt and

[bugilt]

Any addons killing your RAM? I have to do /uireload after some time, because of it (boxing 5 seems to kill RAM, especially with quest helper).

Taskman says I have 1gb waiting to be used. I'll have to take another look when it lags.

[mlwhitt]

Hehehe, yeah looks like Ventilation isn't a problem there.

[Lokked]

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?

[blast3r]

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