Soldato
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Ok so heres the story before I get to the problems. I went to the OCUK grand opening sale and bought all the bits for a nice new PC ( specs in Sig) except 1 830 which I got later of a friend.
Put it all together. Noticed straight away that my USB 3 ports kept dying and 3 DIMM slots weren't useable on the Motherboard.. Turned up to OCUK on a Saturday and got the support guys to test it ( guy was great) came back about an hour later and he confirmed it was faulty and already had a new one ready for me to take and go. It was great wen't home and everything seemed fine again. To this point I hadn't played any games as had no time due to work really.
Hitman Absolution comes out and since it was free with my cards I made time to play it. Loaded it up e.t.c and about 5 minutes into the game I suffered a PC crashed, and it kept happening everytime I tried about 5 minutes in. I then got help from you great guys on the OCUK forums and found out I had a dodgy GPU ( worked fine of the single 1 good card). RMA'd it back through OCUK ( again quick service and helpful) and they again found a component to be dodgy. Got a replacement GPU ordered.
Couple days later my PC wouldn't POST kept getting error cod 19. After hours of trailing through the internet found it to be an issue with the Asrock boards. This time I wasn't going to go for another ASrock board. I ordered a Asus Rampage Extreme IV ( which I am now using and it's amazing.) while setting up an RMA for the ASrock board.
The replacement GPU came. The first thing I noticed about the new GPU was that it had 2 8-Pin power connectors rather than 1 8-PIn and 1 6-PIn like my other one ( and the one it replaced). Phoned Sapphire up and apparently they were having many issues with the cards so changed it to 2 8-Pins. This card now has perfect results and good readings in GPU-Z. While doing a new benchmark I suffered a system crash, I checked my GPU-Z log files and it showed me some results shown below.
Bad Card (Old type):
Good Card (New one):
As you can see the old one suffers spikes and this is only at system idle! Its spikes get much worse when at load. While the new type has really good graphs.
My first question after my long winded back story is do you think this card is faulty and should be RMA-D it is similar to the results of the first bad one but not quite as severe.
My last point is I have suffered 2 Mobo failures and 2 GPU failures ( granted Sapphire did say they were having issues with the original ones with 1 8 and 1 6 pin connectors), which even though I am suffering from an enormous streak of bad luck, seems a bit extreme for getting duff parts and makes me think their could be a PSU issue that is the real evil behind all this so my question is what do you guys think? Could the PSU be the real evil and if so how could I test if it is?
I am sorry for the long-winded essay but I thought I better explain it properly but I know how much us geeks hate massive paragraphs.
P.S. I have built many rigs before so am competent in building and to throw away my doubts had friends and my dad check the build and they said it was all good in terms of being put together.
~James@
Put it all together. Noticed straight away that my USB 3 ports kept dying and 3 DIMM slots weren't useable on the Motherboard.. Turned up to OCUK on a Saturday and got the support guys to test it ( guy was great) came back about an hour later and he confirmed it was faulty and already had a new one ready for me to take and go. It was great wen't home and everything seemed fine again. To this point I hadn't played any games as had no time due to work really.
Hitman Absolution comes out and since it was free with my cards I made time to play it. Loaded it up e.t.c and about 5 minutes into the game I suffered a PC crashed, and it kept happening everytime I tried about 5 minutes in. I then got help from you great guys on the OCUK forums and found out I had a dodgy GPU ( worked fine of the single 1 good card). RMA'd it back through OCUK ( again quick service and helpful) and they again found a component to be dodgy. Got a replacement GPU ordered.
Couple days later my PC wouldn't POST kept getting error cod 19. After hours of trailing through the internet found it to be an issue with the Asrock boards. This time I wasn't going to go for another ASrock board. I ordered a Asus Rampage Extreme IV ( which I am now using and it's amazing.) while setting up an RMA for the ASrock board.
The replacement GPU came. The first thing I noticed about the new GPU was that it had 2 8-Pin power connectors rather than 1 8-PIn and 1 6-PIn like my other one ( and the one it replaced). Phoned Sapphire up and apparently they were having many issues with the cards so changed it to 2 8-Pins. This card now has perfect results and good readings in GPU-Z. While doing a new benchmark I suffered a system crash, I checked my GPU-Z log files and it showed me some results shown below.
Bad Card (Old type):
Good Card (New one):
As you can see the old one suffers spikes and this is only at system idle! Its spikes get much worse when at load. While the new type has really good graphs.
My first question after my long winded back story is do you think this card is faulty and should be RMA-D it is similar to the results of the first bad one but not quite as severe.
My last point is I have suffered 2 Mobo failures and 2 GPU failures ( granted Sapphire did say they were having issues with the original ones with 1 8 and 1 6 pin connectors), which even though I am suffering from an enormous streak of bad luck, seems a bit extreme for getting duff parts and makes me think their could be a PSU issue that is the real evil behind all this so my question is what do you guys think? Could the PSU be the real evil and if so how could I test if it is?
I am sorry for the long-winded essay but I thought I better explain it properly but I know how much us geeks hate massive paragraphs.
P.S. I have built many rigs before so am competent in building and to throw away my doubts had friends and my dad check the build and they said it was all good in terms of being put together.
~James@
