Hi guys!
Long, obnoxious post inbound,
I apologize.
First off, here's my system specs:
i7 3770k (OC'd at 4.40 ghz)
MSI R9 280x
8gb Ram 1600mhz
Corsair CX 600 watt psu
2x 1tb hdd's
dvd rw drive (probably didn't need to include that xD)
Windows 7 64 bit
Right...
This is my first post here, and I signed up just to get some advice on this intermittent problem my pc has been having recently.
I bought an R9 280x a few weeks ago, it worked fine, no blue screens playing battlefield 4 or metro last light on full... played like a dream in fact. The card started getting fan issues after a few days so I RMA'd it. I got a new one, no fan issue.
But instead I have been getting a couple of blue screens in the past 5 days, and even a couple of times where the pc froze completely.
This is not a pc I built myself, I bought it from a uk retailer called overclockers.co.uk, earlier this year. When I ordered it, it had a MSI 7850 2gb as stock in it and only 1 hdd, so since then I have put the r9 280x and a western digital blue caviar 1tb hdd in it myself.
The blue screens that I have been getting during gaming have admittedly been from a couple of dodgy sources. The first time was when I was playing 'The lord of the rings, war in the north', which isn't the best optimised game ever. And the other was whilst I was trying to mod Fallout 3 with enb and high res textures. I can get fallout 3 to run fine without crashing with enb's disabled though.
My main thought is that it might be the psu being a bit too low for the gpu because fallout 3 modded can be a bit of a beast, so it might be pushing the psu to full load. But the war in the north is not a very system intensive game, and I haven't been getting any other BSOD's in any other system intensive games like BF4 or Metro: LL etc.
The blue screens have been intermittent and days apart too. I'm a bit puzzled.
I'd appreciate any advice really.
Thanks
Long, obnoxious post inbound,
I apologize.
First off, here's my system specs:
i7 3770k (OC'd at 4.40 ghz)
MSI R9 280x
8gb Ram 1600mhz
Corsair CX 600 watt psu
2x 1tb hdd's
dvd rw drive (probably didn't need to include that xD)
Windows 7 64 bit
Right...
This is my first post here, and I signed up just to get some advice on this intermittent problem my pc has been having recently.
I bought an R9 280x a few weeks ago, it worked fine, no blue screens playing battlefield 4 or metro last light on full... played like a dream in fact. The card started getting fan issues after a few days so I RMA'd it. I got a new one, no fan issue.
But instead I have been getting a couple of blue screens in the past 5 days, and even a couple of times where the pc froze completely.
This is not a pc I built myself, I bought it from a uk retailer called overclockers.co.uk, earlier this year. When I ordered it, it had a MSI 7850 2gb as stock in it and only 1 hdd, so since then I have put the r9 280x and a western digital blue caviar 1tb hdd in it myself.
The blue screens that I have been getting during gaming have admittedly been from a couple of dodgy sources. The first time was when I was playing 'The lord of the rings, war in the north', which isn't the best optimised game ever. And the other was whilst I was trying to mod Fallout 3 with enb and high res textures. I can get fallout 3 to run fine without crashing with enb's disabled though.
My main thought is that it might be the psu being a bit too low for the gpu because fallout 3 modded can be a bit of a beast, so it might be pushing the psu to full load. But the war in the north is not a very system intensive game, and I haven't been getting any other BSOD's in any other system intensive games like BF4 or Metro: LL etc.
The blue screens have been intermittent and days apart too. I'm a bit puzzled.
I'd appreciate any advice really.
Thanks
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