Hey guys, I have an odd issue, maybe I'm overlooking something easy.
I recentley bought a new mother board: Asus Maximus VI Formula, and i7 4770k. After installing them I reused all the same other components from my old build, that worked fine, I'll list the rest at the end, I got Blue screens and boot loops, so I did the normal Troubleshooting, check for shorts with standoffs, unplug all hardware, trying 1 stick of ram at a time, etc, no video cards, or drives etc, nothing worked, so I finally gave up for the night, plugged everything back in to work on it the next morning and it booted to BIOS fine.
So I did a fresh install of Windows 7 Pro, and got about a dozen blue screens or so just trying to install motherboard drivers, and windows updates. The blue screens were mainly about wufrd driver or something along those lines, after looking it up I found that it may have been related to ASUS Suite (Their OC'ing / monitoring software) so I removed it and still had issues.
It would run a bit so I ran 3dmark11 to see the score, and it wasn't bad, 6300ish on extreme, and intel burn test made it through 10 passes on Very High, so I thought my problems were behind me with it, however when it came time to install some games, I tried some of my more demanding games first, Metro last light, and Farcry3 to be exact, and got terrible stuttering, lockup's, crash's and BSOD's.
I ran MemTest twice, and installed 5 generations worth of nVidia Drivers, all the same, I also tried lowering the games to the lowest settings ( it would run 200+ FPS on these settings, but when it came time to use a scope or turn it would drop to 0 and hang ) and lockup's were still there.
The Full Build was:
Windows 7 Pro (fully Updated)
ASUS Maximus VI Formula
Intel i7 4770k (Stock Clock)
16GB Corsair Vengence 1600 Ram (2x8)
Themaltake 850w Bronze certified PSU
2x Gigabyte GTX 770 2gb OC edition SLI
Intel 180GB SSD, Intel 480GB SSD, and 500GB Samsung SSD.
As I said all but the Mobo and CPU were all used for a long time, and I put my old P8P67, and i5 2500k back in with a fresh install of Windows 7 Home Premium. So basically a long winded post to ask if anyone knows why Win 7 Pro, 4770k, and Asus Maximus would stutter under very low load conditions. PS I may have broken the motherboard beyond repair when packing it up to RMA to newegg, i bent a fair amount of pins with the black cap over the socket, there looking at it this week to let me know, but should I RMA the CPU, or do the problems sound like motherboard issue?
I recentley bought a new mother board: Asus Maximus VI Formula, and i7 4770k. After installing them I reused all the same other components from my old build, that worked fine, I'll list the rest at the end, I got Blue screens and boot loops, so I did the normal Troubleshooting, check for shorts with standoffs, unplug all hardware, trying 1 stick of ram at a time, etc, no video cards, or drives etc, nothing worked, so I finally gave up for the night, plugged everything back in to work on it the next morning and it booted to BIOS fine.
So I did a fresh install of Windows 7 Pro, and got about a dozen blue screens or so just trying to install motherboard drivers, and windows updates. The blue screens were mainly about wufrd driver or something along those lines, after looking it up I found that it may have been related to ASUS Suite (Their OC'ing / monitoring software) so I removed it and still had issues.
It would run a bit so I ran 3dmark11 to see the score, and it wasn't bad, 6300ish on extreme, and intel burn test made it through 10 passes on Very High, so I thought my problems were behind me with it, however when it came time to install some games, I tried some of my more demanding games first, Metro last light, and Farcry3 to be exact, and got terrible stuttering, lockup's, crash's and BSOD's.
I ran MemTest twice, and installed 5 generations worth of nVidia Drivers, all the same, I also tried lowering the games to the lowest settings ( it would run 200+ FPS on these settings, but when it came time to use a scope or turn it would drop to 0 and hang ) and lockup's were still there.
The Full Build was:
Windows 7 Pro (fully Updated)
ASUS Maximus VI Formula
Intel i7 4770k (Stock Clock)
16GB Corsair Vengence 1600 Ram (2x8)
Themaltake 850w Bronze certified PSU
2x Gigabyte GTX 770 2gb OC edition SLI
Intel 180GB SSD, Intel 480GB SSD, and 500GB Samsung SSD.
As I said all but the Mobo and CPU were all used for a long time, and I put my old P8P67, and i5 2500k back in with a fresh install of Windows 7 Home Premium. So basically a long winded post to ask if anyone knows why Win 7 Pro, 4770k, and Asus Maximus would stutter under very low load conditions. PS I may have broken the motherboard beyond repair when packing it up to RMA to newegg, i bent a fair amount of pins with the black cap over the socket, there looking at it this week to let me know, but should I RMA the CPU, or do the problems sound like motherboard issue?
. I kid, I kid...
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