Last year I bought your "Quasar 265i" Intel Core i7 4770K @ 4.5GHz Overclocked Haswell Gaming PC Bundle and was very happy with it. The only difference from spec was that you had to swap out the mobo with a Gigabyte z87x-oc as the board wouldn't sustain the overclock.
I paired it with an AMD 7950 and all was well apart from occasional crashes which turned out to be a problem with the power supply which I replaced with an 800W platinum rated unit by Fractal Design.
however, I recently installed an AMD r9 290 and since then I have been suffering from random crashes. I returned and replaced the r9 and the replacement is doing the same.
It's been suggested that I should update my bios (currently version F3) to the latest (F8).
Is this likely to help? Will I loose my overclock? Will this invalidate my warranty?
Can anyone think of anything else that might help?
The crash is essentially, the screens lock and then I get snow (pink on the previous card, blue on this one).
I have checked the event viewer and there is nothing related to teh crash other than the "The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. This error could be caused if the system stopped responding, crashed, or lost power unexpectedly." error you get when you are forced to hit the reset button after the lockup
Thanks for any help offered.
Dave
I paired it with an AMD 7950 and all was well apart from occasional crashes which turned out to be a problem with the power supply which I replaced with an 800W platinum rated unit by Fractal Design.
however, I recently installed an AMD r9 290 and since then I have been suffering from random crashes. I returned and replaced the r9 and the replacement is doing the same.
It's been suggested that I should update my bios (currently version F3) to the latest (F8).
Is this likely to help? Will I loose my overclock? Will this invalidate my warranty?
Can anyone think of anything else that might help?
The crash is essentially, the screens lock and then I get snow (pink on the previous card, blue on this one).
I have checked the event viewer and there is nothing related to teh crash other than the "The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. This error could be caused if the system stopped responding, crashed, or lost power unexpectedly." error you get when you are forced to hit the reset button after the lockup
Thanks for any help offered.
Dave
