JacobG

I'm still not sure if it's my all-time favorite, but man do I love Fez's soundtrack.

Man, I was holding out hope that they were just saving him for another episode. Now I'll never get to see that fantastic scene with him at the gates of Meereen play out in the show.

Gonna have to say Deadwood as well.

As many have already mentioned, you can't go wrong with Breaking Bad and House of Cards is pretty great as well.

Joined as well! I'm new to Fitocracy but it seems like an interesting way to keep me motivated to workout and keep in shape.

The texture when they're raw is too much for me. I prefer 'em steamed, then put it it on a saltine with some horseradish and cocktail sauce and I'm good to go.

Sweet! Thanks for the heads up, I've been waiting for this episode ever since Hardwick talked about it on Twitter a while back. Also, it's up on iTunes already for anyone who uses that for their podcasts.

Prime rib. My grandma makes it for Christmas dinner every year and it's amazing.

Thanks for the replies everyone.

So, I got him to test the temperatures. It seems like normal temperature when not playing games is 22 C for the CPU and 33 C for the graphics. After starting up Far Cry 3 the CPU goes to 61 - 68 C, motherboard is around 72 C and the graphics card is around 73 C. After about 3 hours the system froze and he had to reboot and the temperatures were reading 73 - 80 C for the CPU, motherboard was 84 C and the graphics card was 75 C.

Seems like the CPU is definitely getting pretty hot, but a day or two after this he tried to start up Hitman and after around 15 minutes with everything nowhere near those temperatures the system froze so I'm not sure what to think. I'm going to try and test the memory today to rule out bad RAM. I was thinking about suggesting a better CPU cooler like this - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835103099 but I'd also like to be relatively confident about what is causing the problem before telling him to go out and buy something.

I recently built a sort of budget gaming PC for a friend of mine. Everything seemed to be going fine until he started playing games. After a while, sometimes it's an hour or two and other times it could be 15 - 30 minutes, the whole system will just lock up in the middle of playing a game, no mouse or keyboard control, and he has to reset the system. The first time it happened while he was playing Far Cry 3 for around 3 hours, but it's gone on to happen in most games he plays with varying amounts of play-time, Hitman Absolution froze up after about 15 minutes and it recently froze during him playing Titan's Quest.

Now, I'm relatively new to troubleshooting PC problems so any advice would be appreciated. As far as I can tell all the drivers are updated and all the hardware looks to be functioning correctly. I'm not sure if it's heat related, something to do with the power supply or some other hardware problem but I've pretty much run out of ideas.

Here are the specs of the PC:

CPU - AMD FX-6100 3.3GHz

Motherboard - Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3 ATX AM3+

Memory - 2 x Crucial 4GB DDR3-1333

Hard Drive - Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM

Video Card - EVGA GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1GB

Sound Card - Creative Labs Audigy SE

Case - Cooler Master Elite 430 ATX Mid Tower

Power Supply - Thermaltake 430W ATX12V

Optical Drive - Lite-On iHAS124-04 DVD/CD Writer

OS - Windows 8 64-bit

I should also note that the case only has one fan installed in it, so I told him adding maybe 1 or 2 more fans might be a good idea as well. Thanks again in advance for any suggestions!