woeful pc spec and setup

robertchalmers1

robertchalmers1

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i have the following items

i5 4670k
GB z87x-oc
8gb team group 2400 orange ddr3 ram
120gb mushkin SSD
full watercooled.

i also have not in the system at the moment 2 x gtx 770 and a 500gb sata hard drive.

was advised that intel is the only way to go after a few initial posts and almost every forum says the same thing as well which im not disputing however this is my 1st intel setup for a very long time and tbh its been nothing but hassle after hassle.

silly things as well my ssd doesnt give me any speed advantages over the normal sata drive, however the one that annoys me more than anything is the fact the very minute i touch a setting in the bios my pc goes to pot. in fact with my w8.1 ive had to reinstall 7 times, yes 7 times today, due to bios messing up my install.

incidentally i have tried all components in a friends pc just to check they all work and they certainly do.

how i wish i had picked an amd setup as my sons one sits at 5ghz all day long, is a breeze to oc and work with and plays all his games excellently compared to my month old pc that has had the 2 graphics cards in it for a total of 4 hours.

is anyone able to give an intel noob some advice please before this stuff gets launced out the window and i take a loss and switch back to amd
 
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What ram is that?

Have a good feeling it is the culprit. 6gb is a weird number, are you mixing and matching ram?

Also make sure the bios is set to write in ahci for better ssd performance.
 
its not just the ssd speeds its the whole system in general. really slow and sluggish any changes in bios no matter how small to clock the cpu and its the mad blue screen with sad face on it
 
Based on the problems you are having (many problems with corrupted install) and general instability it does sound likely that you are sitting on at least on stick of bad RAM. The first thing I would suggest is pulling out one of the modules and leave the other module installed in the correct slot (see the manual). Then turn on the PC and run memtest and see if any errors crop up. If there are no errors then test the other memory module on its own in the same way.

If you do find an issue with the memtest, take a photo of it and get in contact with your retailer - they will sort you out with a replacement kit.

If the problem isn't with the memory, then chances are that its the motherboard to blame - which is a bit more of a pain to test (if you don't have a spare 1150 CPU to hand).
 
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