Sluggish / unstable 3790k

BluD

BluD

BluD

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Hello, i just bought a few new bits for my PC, im trying to install but its so sluggish and keeps blue screening. I stuck the new bits together and booted from USB installed win7 and whilst trying to install the mobo drivers it crashed.

The new bits are Gigabyte z97 mobo, 3790k cpu and 16g 2400mhz c10 gskill ram.

I thought maybe cause im using optimized defaults in the bios its forcing the mem to run with too low voltage or something so i used XMP and choose the profile for them, but it just made the PC slow down even more and not even make it into windows.

I tried using windows update but it just takes forever then eventually blue screens. Anyone got any ideas?

Ta.
 
yeah i did that, only thing i didnt do was 1 stick of ram, i just banged them both in, ill try another format and reinstalling with 1 stick. 3rd format already, i hope it doesnt dmg the SSD.
 
BluD said:
yeah i did that, only thing i didnt do was 1 stick of ram, i just banged them both in, ill try another format and reinstalling with 1 stick. 3rd format already, i hope it doesnt dmg the SSD.
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How are you formatting? If just a quick format at windows setup then you're fine.

Only a full format puts any wear on your drive.
 
Yeah just doing the quick one in the windows setup, running with just Mobo, CPU, 1 stick of ram and PSU. Trying to use onboard vga and keyboard only but its not making a difference, windows installs fine, then trying to install any drivers or update windows is v slow again then often doesnt make it back into windows after i restart.

Anyone got any other ideas? Been trying to get windows installed all night now, took about 30 mins last time i installed it on the z77 setup.
 
Seems ok now, it managed to get through a full windows update without crashing, then after the restart it started working fast like my old system did. And since then all the drivers installed properly. Its even working with both sticks of ram now, havent tried turning on XMP yet so its still only at 1333mhz atm but it seems it just needed something from windows update to make it run properly, and it wasnt managing to get far enough into the update before before it crashed.
 
Try setting the RAM back to XMP and if it plays up after that, might either need to memtest the RAM induvidually or tweak the cpu voltage for the memory up a little vtt/qpi I believe.
 
Update the boards BIO, early ones used too m uch Vcore for a start, plus they are always trying to improve things with newer releases.
 
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