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So this a bit of a two-fold question. In the past I've had quite a problem with BSOD's on a somewhat clean Windows 7 machine. I can say that most of these BSOD's were probably the result of a poor overclock on the 4770K. It's never gotten insatiably hot, and generally runs just fine. However, on the off chance I let it go to sleep, or sleep for a long time, it'll wake up but only briefly before crashing. Ironically enough, the most recent crash it's experienced (last night) didn't leave a dump file to be examined.
Awhile back I did wipe the machine completely clean, did a fresh install of Windows 7, along with some re-wiring and configuring. Accompanying this I did swap out graphics setups, and turned all overclocked settings for GPU/CPU back to default. I've since then re-applied a 4.0GHz overclock back on the 4770K (Note: The overclock is one which is set by MSI's OC utility, which works good for the most part). Which seems to have remedied the issue a great deal, but again the BSOD shows it's ugly head every so often, via the aforementioned scenario.
I've been looking into it for quite some time and haven't well enough made a diagnosis just yet. I'm assuming it's got something to do with the processor overclocking, or perhaps my PSU isn't powerful enough to accommodate all the overclocking of various components. Note that it doesn't ever BSOD while it's in use, but after it falls asleep, and wakes up. Otherwise the 4770K overclock seems stable enough (can pass a Prime95 test).
In short I guess my question can boil down to this. Is the PSU sufficient to handle a 4.0-4.5GHz CPU overclock in addition to a good GPU overclock? Could the overclock settings be the main problem behind the BSOD? You could say I'm no OC veteran, but I know a little bit about it anyway.
Desktop Specs:
Motherboard : MSI z87-G45 Gaming
Processor : Intel Core i7 4770K @ 4.0GHz/Core
Water Cooler : Corsair H80i
Memory : 2 x 8GB Corsair Vengeance @ 2400MHz
GPU : EVGA GTX 780 SC w/ ACX (+62/+500MHz Clock/Mem)
GPU (D Physx): MSI N660 GTX 660 Twin Frozr III (Dedicated Physx)
SSD : Crucial M4 256GB
HDD : 500GB 5400RPM - (Pulled from laptop (SVS151190X) swap)
Power Supply : ThermalTake SmartSeries 750W 80+ Bronze
Thanks in advance.
Awhile back I did wipe the machine completely clean, did a fresh install of Windows 7, along with some re-wiring and configuring. Accompanying this I did swap out graphics setups, and turned all overclocked settings for GPU/CPU back to default. I've since then re-applied a 4.0GHz overclock back on the 4770K (Note: The overclock is one which is set by MSI's OC utility, which works good for the most part). Which seems to have remedied the issue a great deal, but again the BSOD shows it's ugly head every so often, via the aforementioned scenario.
I've been looking into it for quite some time and haven't well enough made a diagnosis just yet. I'm assuming it's got something to do with the processor overclocking, or perhaps my PSU isn't powerful enough to accommodate all the overclocking of various components. Note that it doesn't ever BSOD while it's in use, but after it falls asleep, and wakes up. Otherwise the 4770K overclock seems stable enough (can pass a Prime95 test).
In short I guess my question can boil down to this. Is the PSU sufficient to handle a 4.0-4.5GHz CPU overclock in addition to a good GPU overclock? Could the overclock settings be the main problem behind the BSOD? You could say I'm no OC veteran, but I know a little bit about it anyway.
Desktop Specs:
Motherboard : MSI z87-G45 Gaming
Processor : Intel Core i7 4770K @ 4.0GHz/Core
Water Cooler : Corsair H80i
Memory : 2 x 8GB Corsair Vengeance @ 2400MHz
GPU : EVGA GTX 780 SC w/ ACX (+62/+500MHz Clock/Mem)
GPU (D Physx): MSI N660 GTX 660 Twin Frozr III (Dedicated Physx)
SSD : Crucial M4 256GB
HDD : 500GB 5400RPM - (Pulled from laptop (SVS151190X) swap)
Power Supply : ThermalTake SmartSeries 750W 80+ Bronze
Thanks in advance.
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