Hi all.
I recently put together my first PC build, and ever since I first booted up I've been having serious problems with crashing and freezing. This began even before I'd finished installing Windows, and I had a friend who knows what he's doing install all necessary drivers and stuff, so he and I are pretty convinced it's not a software issue. The PC goes any time between 30 seconds and 2-3 hours, before the screen either completely freezes or occasionally the system just reboots itself. Sometimes it seems as if the freezing only happens after the PC's left idle for a minute or so, but then sometimes it seems everything's fine until I load up a game.
PC specs are as follows:
Intel i5 4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core CPU
Corsair Vengeance 2x 4GB DDR3-1600 RAM
Gigabyte GA-Z87-HD3 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard
Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 120GB 2.5" SSD
Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM HDD
Asus Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 2GB GPU
Corsair CX 430w Modular PSU
Temperatures and stuff seem to be okay; I've tried running both RAM sticks on their own, so unless they're both bad that's not the problem, but I've only been able to run Memtest for 15 minutes or so without a crash so I can't be certain. If it's not RAM, my next guess would be motherboard, but again, I don't have any decent way to test that. Would appreciate advice on how to diagnose something like this, short of spending hundreds on new parts on the off-chance it'll magically fix it..
Thanks in advance.
Edit: I realise 430w is pushing it for a 760, but a number of sites I entered my specs into gave me a minimum wattage of like 360, so..
I recently put together my first PC build, and ever since I first booted up I've been having serious problems with crashing and freezing. This began even before I'd finished installing Windows, and I had a friend who knows what he's doing install all necessary drivers and stuff, so he and I are pretty convinced it's not a software issue. The PC goes any time between 30 seconds and 2-3 hours, before the screen either completely freezes or occasionally the system just reboots itself. Sometimes it seems as if the freezing only happens after the PC's left idle for a minute or so, but then sometimes it seems everything's fine until I load up a game.
PC specs are as follows:
Intel i5 4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core CPU
Corsair Vengeance 2x 4GB DDR3-1600 RAM
Gigabyte GA-Z87-HD3 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard
Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 120GB 2.5" SSD
Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM HDD
Asus Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 2GB GPU
Corsair CX 430w Modular PSU
Temperatures and stuff seem to be okay; I've tried running both RAM sticks on their own, so unless they're both bad that's not the problem, but I've only been able to run Memtest for 15 minutes or so without a crash so I can't be certain. If it's not RAM, my next guess would be motherboard, but again, I don't have any decent way to test that. Would appreciate advice on how to diagnose something like this, short of spending hundreds on new parts on the off-chance it'll magically fix it..
Thanks in advance.
Edit: I realise 430w is pushing it for a 760, but a number of sites I entered my specs into gave me a minimum wattage of like 360, so..