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Disappointed in my Gaming PC

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#1 ·
Where to start. I guess I will start by stating I am disappointed in my Stryker rig in sig. This computer just seems to be against me playing multiple games.
-Was crashing on Thief, Crysis 3 and FarCry 3.
-Uninstalled graphics drivers fully, still crashes.
-Set back to stock clocks on cpu
-Still crashes
-checked hard drives no errors
-download new copies of the games
-still crashed

My richland build in my sig will run games without crashing in the least. Really odd that my 600$ rig runs better than my 1400$ rig it is quite frustrating.

Fast forward to today, full reboot of the entire system fresh installs with hard drives fully wiped. All updates done for Windows and all. Reinstall games... Thief was first test - still exiting the game randomly for no reason, no explanation just exits mid game.

Now i await my test for Crysis 3. Thinking I might just give up on this rig and play using my spare rig. I am at a loss to why this would be happening. The only explanation is a hardware failure. But what is most likely? The only component I switched lately was my gpu to a gtx 970 but crysis 3 crashed when I used my gtx 670 as well.

So is it my:
-MOBO - 2 1/2 years old
-PSU - 1 1/2 years old
-CPU - 2 1/2 years old
-GPU - 3 months
?????

I would appreciate some help guys and gals
 
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#2 ·
I have a similar system to yours, not totally identical but somewhere around the same ground.

here are a few things I would suggest doing to get your issue dealt with.

- set your bios to default (for testing purposes, you can set it back up to your previous oc if you wish later on)

- make sure you got the latest / most stable version for your bios.

- get an authentic / different copy or .ISO operating system.

- once you have a fresh install of windows installed, all you need to install at first are the network drivers (if needed) to completely and fully update windows WITHOUT installing any additional software. once your windows is fully updated, then you can start installing your necessary software and other drivers for your hardware and peripherals.

- (for testing purposes) remove one graphics card and run your computer on one card until your issues are fixed

- after completely updating your windows, you can install the latest / most stable version of NVidia drivers for your system with appropriate restarts

you have mentioned that you are mostly getting your PC to crash when playing games, so I would suggest downloading a benchmark such as unigine valley benchmark that is able to run in loops for a certain period of time to verify that it does / does not crash at this stage.

I hope this gives you an idea of what to do and what to work with, that is what I would do if I was in your shoes.

EDIT: forgot to mention that if you have also might want to run memtest or any other memory testing tool to verify that your ram is not damaged in any way and is not what is causing you to crash.
 
#3 ·
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Originally Posted by Boyd View Post

I have a similar system to yours, not totally identical but somewhere around the same ground.

here are a few things I would suggest doing to get your issue dealt with.

- set your bios to default (for testing purposes, you can set it back up to your previous oc if you wish later on)

- make sure you got the latest / most stable version for your bios.

- get an authentic / different copy or .ISO operating system.

- once you have a fresh install of windows installed, all you need to install at first are the network drivers (if needed) to completely and fully update windows WITHOUT installing any additional software. once your windows is fully updated, then you can start installing your necessary software and other drivers for your hardware and peripherals.

- (for testing purposes) remove one graphics card and run your computer on one card until your issues are fixed

- after completely updating your windows, you can install the latest / most stable version of NVidia drivers for your system with appropriate restarts

you have mentioned that you are mostly getting your PC to crash when playing games, so I would suggest downloading a benchmark such as unigine valley benchmark that is able to run in loops for a certain period of time to verify that it does / does not crash at this stage.

I hope this gives you an idea of what to do and what to work with, that is what I would do if I was in your shoes.

EDIT: forgot to mention that if you have also might want to run memtest or any other memory testing tool to verify that your ram is not damaged in any way and is not what is causing you to crash.
Currently am only running my gtx 970
-reset my bios to defaults
-installed windows the way you stated
-running loop test now
-after loop tests will run memtest

thanks for the suggestions
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#4 ·
sounds good, let us know how it turns out to be
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#5 ·
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Originally Posted by Boyd View Post

sounds good, let us know how it turns out to be
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So I may have figured it out. I told my motherboard to go back to defaults but it didnt truly reset.
-So I manually cleared the cmos
-Seems to be running fine with my buddies 770 (borrowed to eliminate possible 970 which did same thing as 970)
-Anyways played a half-hour no crashing will test more in the morning
 
#6 ·
At least giving the thread a cursory glance, didn't see mention of a memtest86+ run. A few rigs back, had some chronic issues w/ my Crucial Ballistix and my gigabyte 965p board. Ended up RMAing the RAM, for legit failures, 3 times. Also have had similar issues as described w/ an old s939 rig I used to run on the side. IIRC, also RMA'd that RAM.

May want to run memtest86+ overnight or at least for a few hours to see if the RAM is to blame.

Also would rollback a UEFI/firmware release, then using a fresh DL from the mobo's site, re-flash the latest firmware.
 
#8 ·
Doesn't seem to be psu ^
I would guess the motherboard or cpu is at fault for what you're experiencing. I experienced something similar and those were the components at fault.
 
#9 ·
I would absolutely check the PSU. Swap out the PSU with one of your other rig's PSU and see what happens when you put the game under load.

I've had a silverstone 750W PSU pop on me for no reason whatsoever, I dont trust them at all. That PSU wasn't even close to being pushed, either.

Is it only crashing when you run games and not the desktop?

Weird thing, I had another PC that would constantly CTD even after a fresh win install, swapped out every single component and still got crashes. Tried multiple HDD's, same thing, so I was thinking it was a hardware issue like the board or CPU. I went for broke and put a SSD in there, installed windows, and never had a problem again. The same 2 drives that wouldn't install windows are now data drives.

If possible, start replacing components to test with, but I totally understand if that's not possible. Not everyone has expensive parts just laying around.
 
#10 ·
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Originally Posted by Puunh View Post

Doesn't seem to be psu ^
I would guess the motherboard or cpu is at fault for what you're experiencing. I experienced something similar and those were the components at fault.
Bad OC after almost 2 years of running it and now it fails. Oh well just reset the CMOS and now all is fine and dandy
 
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