New Build, need advice please.

Click on the trust icon in one of your posts, then it pops up a new window for you to log-in to and save it, means I can send you something useful for overclocking.
 
Yeah, thanks for that link dude! I'll have a good read through it tomorrow and attempt it. So, as for Prime, should I put it on stress and leave it while I sleep?
 
Right, a few problems last night. After about 10 minutes in on the Prime95, I was blue screened.

Restarted the system, just to download some games like BF3 and SWTOR and left the PC on while I slept to just download them. When I woke up, it appeared to have blue screened again. I wonder what the problem is?

EDIT: Just to add, on the second blue screen, Windows ran a check on my C drive and apparently "corrected" some problems.
 
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I'm just going to test it on SWTOR, I'll leave it on for a few hours as I need to go out. See what happens.
 
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I was BSoD again only 5 minutes into the game. I've reset the CPU to 3.3GHz and I disabled that CPU speed thing you told me about to keep in constant 3.3GHz but CPU-Z is changing every second between 16x and 33x...
 
Ok, I'll try it at 40x and I'll give it an hour long test in OCCT to see what the temps get to. What's the highest to safely go to, around 70°C? Think I read something that they'll give you BSoD if they reach 90°C to prevent damage, but the heat sink seems to be working perfectly fine.
 
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Ok, I'll try it at 40x and I'll give it an hour long test in OCCT to see what the temps get to. What's the highest to safely go to, around 70°C? Think I read something that they'll give you BSoD if they reach 90°C to prevent damage, but the heat sink seems to be working perfectly fine.
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I'm sorry to see you seem to be having so much trouble.

You have downloaded all the current drivers for your mobo and GPU haven't you? What is the error code on the BSOD?

What are your current temps at stock and when you OC? You don't really want to be going over 70 degrees. I've done several i5K builds OC'd them to 4.4 with a max temp of 45.
 
honosuseri said:
I'm sorry to see you seem to be having so much trouble.

You have downloaded all the current drivers for your mobo and GPU haven't you? What is the error code on the BSOD?

What are your current temps at stock and when you OC? You don't really want to be going over 70 degrees. I've done several i5K builds OC'd them to 4.4 with a max temp of 45.
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GPU drivers, yes, as for the mobo drivers, really not sure which one's I'd need. I just completed a 1 hour test in OCCT using the "Large Data Set". CPU was using 100% all the way through and here are the maximum temps the cores got to:

Core 0: 59°C
Core 1: 61°C
Core 2: 64°C
Core 3: 63°C

That was also @ 40x 4.0GHz.

Also, didn't write down the error code sorry, if it happens again I will.

As for stock, it's still running at x16 unless it's under load. I disabled that boost thing in the BIOS so it would use the clock settings but it's still slowing it down until I use a program that stresses the CPU. Anyway, here are my current x16 temps:

Core 0: 34°C
Core 1: 31°C
Core 2: 33°C
Core 3: 36°C

The PC has been on around 17 hours now though, has been restarted a few times but not turned off, so I don't know if that could effect temps.
 
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Just finished a GPU: 3D test in OCCT. Details:

Test Length: 62 minutes (2 idle)
DirectX Version: DirectX 10
Shader Complexity: 8
Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Full Screen: On
Error Check: On

The max temp I reached on the GPU was 60°C but it appeared to on 55°C most of the time throughout. Now everything was normal as with the last card I had in the old system, besides the amount of errors!!! The amount of errors was a line of at least 10 numbers!

At the end, it only said 37803 Errors Detected but on the full screen test the number was in the billions. Could there be a fault with the GPU causing BSoD?
 
You download all of them. Any drivers that are supplied on the CD that came with the mobo will be out of date.

Your video errors may well be to do with flicking the switch to the second BIOS on the card. It's not guaranteed that it will unlock to a 6970 fella.

How much paste did you use on the CPU? Not the whole tube i hope!
 
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You download all of them. Any drivers that are supplied on the CD that came with the mobo will be out of date.

Your video errors may well be to do with flicking the switch to the second BIOS on the card. It's not guaranteed that it will unlock to a 6970 fella.

How much paste did you use on the CPU? Not the whole tube i hope!
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No switch on my card, so I've done nothing as for overclocking the card. Funny thing is, the images you get from OCCT at the end of a test say No Errors... weird. Do you think the on-board graphics could be interfering? I played Mass Effect last night on the 4.4GHz setting and I didn't crash until I ran prime.

As for the paste, just like all the videos and pictures I've watched, a pea sized amount. Plenty left in that little syringe you get.

As for the drivers, I was looking earlier on the Gigabyte site but there were loads of different drivers and BIOS' for my Mobo, didn't really want to mess with them since it had warnings all over the site.

So I'll start downloading all the drivers for 64bit Windows 7 now. What about the other options? (BIOS & Utility) Believe this is the right board:

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3978&dl=1#dl
 
I've installed all of them but 3.

I can't install this download:

"Intel SATA Preinstall driver
(For AHCI / RAID Mode)
Note: Press F6 during Windows setup to read from floppy."

http://download.gigabyte.eu/FileList/Driver/motherboard_driver_intel_sataraid_bootdisk_irst_64.exe

Because it says I don't meet the minimum requirements. The other 2 I can't install are because they're in .OEM files which I've never installed before, do you get an extension online or something, these are the files:

"Intel® Rapid Storage Technology" - http://download.gigabyte.eu/FileList/Driver/motherboard_driver_intel_sataraid_irst.exe

&

"Marvell Preinstall Driver
Note: Press F6 during Windows setup to read from floppy." - http://download.gigabyte.eu/FileList/Driver/mb_driver_marvell_bootdisk_vista7.exe
 
I wouldnt suggest updating the BIOS unless the update fixes an issue you are having or adds a feature you want to exploit.

You are not using raid as you only have 1 HDD i believe and the rapid storage tech is for using a SSD as a "cache drive".

BSODs are more typically software related rather than hardware. Hopefully these updates will cure the problem. It is possible the OC is causing the BSOD, although that's easy to diagnose if you run the system at stock settings. I'm assuming stulid kindly helped you through with the overclocking basics.

What case are you using and how many fans does it have out of interest?
 
Yeah, stulid gave me a link for a guide to OC an i5 to 5.0GHz. I've only been adjusting the multiplier so far since I know messing with the voltage can possibly break the board. I'm going to have a good read of that guide.

Speaking of the i5, I've read online in the past hour that it's an average that most can get 4.4GHz since some people who are unlucky can only get 4.2GHz while others are really in luck and get 5.0GHz depending on the CPU itself.

4.0GHz seems stable so far through all the test's I've put it through, and I've updated the drivers for the GPU and CPU besides the ones mentioned before. I'm sure I'll get more from it, but I'm going to try and play some more games on it now to see if anything happens.

As for fans, I only have the stock ones currently installed. The one is at the front of the case (I think this is intake) and has a blue light behind it, there's another at the back for exhaust I believe. The CPU cooler is positioned so that it pulls air from the front intake fan which passes the graphics card out the exhaust fan at the back.

Do you think those temps I was getting was normal? I tried another test in OCCT but used a small data set instead which is supposed to generate more heat for the CPU but only got exactly 1°C per core extra on load.

Also, how do I make the system stay on my multiplier all the time? stulid mentioned it and I believe I disabled the right option in the BIOS but it's still slowing down to 16x...

EDIT: Sorry the case is: http://www.coolermaster.com/product.php?product_id=6649
 
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