System completely unusable

Just done that, no crap :) Will have to wait till tomorrow to test it on a proper game, no time now :(
 
Ehm, may be derping here but should the control panel tray thing be in the tray or not? The bottom right of the screen, the little arrow thing showing the tray icons, should the nvidia control panel be in there?
 
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Okay, well I'm going to try with this old 80gb hard drive for a while and see if it helps. If not, the bios test will be next, then probably the psu (have no access to a spare though :/)
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If you have a multimeter unplug the PSU from everything, use a wire to connect pins 13 and 14 as per this and you will be able to turn on your PSU

http://www.dslreports.com/faq/9208

Then wack a multimeter on black (for black/ground) and yellow (for red/live) and test the voltage for your 12 volt rails.

It may not show fluctuations in Bios which is why you have to test directly.



I take no responsibility for you accidentally electrocuting your self though :D
 
Hmm, don't think I'll do that any time soon xD Don't have a multimeter to hand anyway

It seems (fairly) stable on this screen, not ran a game for a decent amount of time though, so do you think it's good enough to plug the second monitor in to the GPU?
 
Okay, I'm running the second monitor + running games mostly fine. However, I get mini stutters or freezes lasting literally milliseconds in games sometimes, sometimes not. Is this a major problem?
 
Only if it annoys you and ruins your kills, my bet is still on PSU...

Can't see it any where in the posts, what OS are you using? and how big is your paging file size? Which drive is it located on?
 
Using Windows 7, located on the main drive atm which is a rubbish 80gb HDD, may be the speed of that. Not sure about what paging file size is xD
 
That might be part of it... the HD being slow I was looking at your specs in your sig expecting the OS to be on the SSD.

If you open windows explorer, right click on your computer, select properties, then select advanced system settings, under performance select settings, then select the advanced tab and it should tell you your paging file size.

In theory your PSU at 600W should be man enough to cope with the GPU... but if its dodgy the power fluctuations would be affecting the performance of it rather than anything else.

Hopefully its as simple as making your paging file smaller so its forcing more information to go to the much faster ram... but that depends on the existing paging file size.
 
Yeah the OS was on the SSD, but that has now been returned as I had actually deemed that was the problem in the first place. It may well have been the BIOS update, the fact that I only installed core nvidia stuff or the SSD that caused the problem. Got another SSD on the way, arriving tomorrow.

For all drives: 8075mb
 
I'd reduce that to 4096 see if that helps, or if not 2048, and if not then 1024, probably not worth going any lower but it might force enough to go to RAM to alleviate it. If it is accessing the drive that's causing it. By the way I'd do that with the SSD as well to force more writing to RAM rather than SSD.
 
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Well that problem with the freezing after playing a game for a while is back :( What else could be causing it?
 
Do you have your SSD installed and if so are the game files on the SSD?

If you only run with the power to the motherboard, gfx card and SSD... with no case fans, or cd/dvd/blueray drive, no external usb stuff, so on very minimal power load does it improve the freezes?

Did you reduce the paging file size?

Have you tested/retested your RAM?
 
SSD is now installed, game files on the HDD drive. The power is only running to those pretty much now, but with a disk drive and 1 fan running off mobo. Didn't reduce the paging sizes as I just installed the OS onto the SSD recently.
 
Adjust the paging file to force it to use ram, if the game files are on the HDD that also might cause glitchyness.

Still have a feeling its your PSU :D
 
Paging size thing hasn't helped, still get the massive lag and only a restart fixes it, carries on on desktop etc. Also, on my secondary screen video playback slightly lags but on the main screen it's generally fine. Maybe the graphics card is faulty?
 
Just e-mailed Asus to see if they have a fix, let's see what happens, but maybe someone else has an idea?
 
Right, returning on thursday for RMA :( Hopefully it should be fixed though, if not the power supply gets an RMA and then I'm guessing it'll have to be the mobo :(
 
Yep, when I get it back (hopefully sooner rather than later) if it hadn't worked then it'll be the PSU to be RMA'd after that as it's second most likely to be the culprit. It's likely the GPU though, noticed some weird behaviour away from the games such as weird screen tearing on youtube videos etc
 
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