Hello, this is my first post!
My specs are here excluding the monitor:
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/user/hazellnut134/saved/
I have noticed that in a lot of games, I get a lot of fps drops, and this seems to happen in a lot of unoptimized games or games that rely heavily on the cpu, for example Blacklight Retribution, Chivalry, Final Fantasy 14. So I decided to test my CPU on Prime95. Aaaand the tests didn't go to well.
Nothing is overclocked, except for a voltage increase on the cpu which I will get onto later.
So, when I run the blend or large fft test on prime, I noticed that within even 3 seconds, cores start to fail, giving the error FATAL ERROR: Rounding was 0.5, expected less than 0.4. Sometimes the 0.5 is replaced with a 0.4xxxxxx decimal. I have also seen the Illegal Sumout error appear 100 times on 1 core. I monitor my CPU with either core temp or CPU-Z, and they both show that during these tests, the frequency on EVERY core drops to something around 1402mhz, and the VID drops to 0.8875v.
I have also tried testing my CPU with Aida64. In these tests, I notice the same things happening on core temp and cpu-z when testing the cpu. I don't have any heat problems as far as I can tell, my idle temps hang around 37 degrees with a stock cooler and never go above 55 ish under load. I have also noticed that when testing my GPU on Aida, my system becomes VERY unresponsive and starts freezing up. My gpu's temperature is around 40 degrees at idle, which seems slightly higher than normal but still a safe temperature. I feel like this might have something to do with enabling k-boost on evga precision, but not disabling it before updating drivers, so I may have to do a driver sweep or just live with that.
About that voltage increase, I moved up the voltage 1 step and it seems like less cores are failing and it doesn't happen as quickly, although that may be due to me changing my RAM settings to run at DDR3-1600 rather than auto.
So the main problem I feel is my motherboard or power supply- my motherboard is the part I cheaped out on most (first pc build) and it only supports the FX-8350 after a BIOS update that I have done. Even then it seems kinda strange as it isn't in the supported CPU list. With the power supply, it seems ok, as the CPU and GPU together should only use up around 350 watts from memory, but I would like some confirmation on that. I definitely have enough money to spend on a new motherboard, although I hear you need a new Windows license but apparently that can be resolved by saying your motherboard died...
So, can anyone give any ideas on why I have any of these problems? Or am I just being paranoid?
My specs are here excluding the monitor:
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/user/hazellnut134/saved/
I have noticed that in a lot of games, I get a lot of fps drops, and this seems to happen in a lot of unoptimized games or games that rely heavily on the cpu, for example Blacklight Retribution, Chivalry, Final Fantasy 14. So I decided to test my CPU on Prime95. Aaaand the tests didn't go to well.
Nothing is overclocked, except for a voltage increase on the cpu which I will get onto later.
So, when I run the blend or large fft test on prime, I noticed that within even 3 seconds, cores start to fail, giving the error FATAL ERROR: Rounding was 0.5, expected less than 0.4. Sometimes the 0.5 is replaced with a 0.4xxxxxx decimal. I have also seen the Illegal Sumout error appear 100 times on 1 core. I monitor my CPU with either core temp or CPU-Z, and they both show that during these tests, the frequency on EVERY core drops to something around 1402mhz, and the VID drops to 0.8875v.
I have also tried testing my CPU with Aida64. In these tests, I notice the same things happening on core temp and cpu-z when testing the cpu. I don't have any heat problems as far as I can tell, my idle temps hang around 37 degrees with a stock cooler and never go above 55 ish under load. I have also noticed that when testing my GPU on Aida, my system becomes VERY unresponsive and starts freezing up. My gpu's temperature is around 40 degrees at idle, which seems slightly higher than normal but still a safe temperature. I feel like this might have something to do with enabling k-boost on evga precision, but not disabling it before updating drivers, so I may have to do a driver sweep or just live with that.
About that voltage increase, I moved up the voltage 1 step and it seems like less cores are failing and it doesn't happen as quickly, although that may be due to me changing my RAM settings to run at DDR3-1600 rather than auto.
So the main problem I feel is my motherboard or power supply- my motherboard is the part I cheaped out on most (first pc build) and it only supports the FX-8350 after a BIOS update that I have done. Even then it seems kinda strange as it isn't in the supported CPU list. With the power supply, it seems ok, as the CPU and GPU together should only use up around 350 watts from memory, but I would like some confirmation on that. I definitely have enough money to spend on a new motherboard, although I hear you need a new Windows license but apparently that can be resolved by saying your motherboard died...
So, can anyone give any ideas on why I have any of these problems? Or am I just being paranoid?
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