Random crashing w/distorted sound

[Syrix]

I've been getting this constant issue of my pc crashing and making a horrible distorted sound. It happens whenever I watch any Youtubes, play any games or a mix.

I restart my computer, and it seems to work fine again (that is, if it freezes). At one point I even got some distortion on my screen, which went away after I restarted my pc.

I really don't know what the problem is, but it's most likely hardware related.

My specs-

OS - Windows 7 64 bit
CPU - i7-2600 @ 3.40ghz
RAM - 8GB
Gfx card - GTX 560 1Gb

[Warship]

Could be your GPU, if there was artifacting on the screen and shit.

[Syrix]

I think it could be overheating. I just checked my CPU and saw that its averages around 45-50ºc when idle.

Not sure if this is a bad thing or if it's nothing to worry about.

[Digimutant]

It should be something to worry about.

Cables not in the way of the fans? Fan works?

Any dust? Hell, maybe the thermal paste has dried up or there's too little.

[Syrix]

I just cleaned out the fans of dust and it hasn't changed a thing. No cables are obstructing any of the fans.

As for the paste, I don't know but it looked dried up when I took off the fan.

and yes, the fan works fine.

[Thechuz]

I'm having similar issues :[url]http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1199086[/url]

Is that any way identical to yours?

[der_crow]

I have the exact same issue, for me I get a grey screen with lines down it and annoying buzz, no bluescreens at all but I cant do jack diddly so I have to hard boot.

this happened to me after I installed windows 7 on to a SSD after formatting it from windows 8 (and I have deleted windows.old) im using a 3 month old PC with a ATI radeon HD 7870 and a i5 26k

[editline]21st July 2012[/editline]

everything was fine till I put windows 8 on and formatted the harddrive, before this point not a single issue

[editline]21st July 2012[/editline]

oh and if it makes a differnce Steam doesnt register seeing my videocard anymore when I use it to look for driver updates,

[Johnny on Flame]

Pop open your case, take the memory sticks out and clean the contacts with a white eraser, it might just fix your problem.

In case you're in doubt wether to do it or not, download YUMI and create yourself a USB memory of sorts with a bootable Memorytest86+ (or just burn it to a disk, whatever you see fit) and run the tests.