cpu overclock bad or bad graphics card?
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So I was playing SC2 today, and after a bit of gaming my screen started getting black blocks, lines and was stuttering really bad. Every time I reopen a game in sc2, it happens again.
I recently overclocked my cpu but I had this overclock with a lesser motherboard and I did stability tests, and every other application works fine.
I am leanin towards bad gcard, but hoping its not because I am upgrading my cpu soon anyway. Just wanted your alls opinion. I will take down the overclock on the cpu to see if the is the problem but hopin someone can point me in the right dirrection.
system specs:
CPU: athlon ii x4 640 @ 3.67ghz
MOBO: gigabyte ga970-udp3
GPU: radeon hd 7970 xfx
psu: corsair cx600m
RAM: 8gb 1333
thanks
I recently overclocked my cpu but I had this overclock with a lesser motherboard and I did stability tests, and every other application works fine.
I am leanin towards bad gcard, but hoping its not because I am upgrading my cpu soon anyway. Just wanted your alls opinion. I will take down the overclock on the cpu to see if the is the problem but hopin someone can point me in the right dirrection.
system specs:
CPU: athlon ii x4 640 @ 3.67ghz
MOBO: gigabyte ga970-udp3
GPU: radeon hd 7970 xfx
psu: corsair cx600m
RAM: 8gb 1333
thanks
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Reply to CptBarbossa
Run Furmark to test your GPU...
http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/fur/
Run Prime 95 to test your CPU...
http://www.mersenne.org/download/
Find out which one fails.
http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/fur/
Run Prime 95 to test your CPU...
http://www.mersenne.org/download/
Find out which one fails.
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"after running furmark my gpu got to 90 degrees in about a minute"
Agreed, those temps are a little high. I know some graphics cards are designed to run that hot but it is a little high for my taste. I think your problem is in your graphics card. How comfortable are you with removing the heat sink an reapplying thermal paste.
Agreed, those temps are a little high. I know some graphics cards are designed to run that hot but it is a little high for my taste. I think your problem is in your graphics card. How comfortable are you with removing the heat sink an reapplying thermal paste.
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Looks like it was my overclock. prime95 shows stable, but I played a round of sc2 today and it glitched, so I turned off my overclock and sc2 runs just fine now. I still need to adress my gpu temp issue, but it never got over 69c when playing sc2 so for now its alright. good thing I checked the overclock before pulling apart my gpu.
Thanks for the help folks!
Thanks for the help folks!
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CptBarbossa said:
Looks like it was my overclock. prime95 shows stable, but I played a round of sc2 today and it glitched, so I turned off my overclock and sc2 runs just fine now. I still need to adress my gpu temp issue, but it never got over 69c when playing sc2 so for now its alright. good thing I checked the overclock before pulling apart my gpu.Thanks for the help folks!
I had a feeling it was the overclock. I don't also think the power supply is really great.
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Reply to sora
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Well I know when you overclock via base frequency it overclocks the RAM, FSB and hypertransport, so I underclocked those, but I have also heard that it overclocks the PCIE, which could account for my overheating gpu as well as stability. Is there any way to find out what the stock frequency for the PCIE is so I know what to set it at in my bios when overclocking in the future? Assuming that it does in fact get overclocked with the base frequency....
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Yes you can overclock with your current PSU. I`m running with 620W bronze with 7970. Both my CPU and GPU were OCed.
So start your OC by raising your coreclock let`s say from 3.5Ghz to 3.6Ghz and test for stability, if it is not stable increase your voltage (e.g. 0.9888 to 1.000) slowly but surely and then again test for stability. You don`t rush things in overclocking.
Good luck
So start your OC by raising your coreclock let`s say from 3.5Ghz to 3.6Ghz and test for stability, if it is not stable increase your voltage (e.g. 0.9888 to 1.000) slowly but surely and then again test for stability. You don`t rush things in overclocking.
Good luck
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Reply to iamlegend
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I did all the stability tests with the overclock. I am getting a new cpu this week anyway so that overclock is going to be pointless. I will try to overclock with the new cpu, run the stability test and then run a graphical test to make sure it isnt drawing too much power or messing with my GPU. I will eventyually need a new psu for when I get the second hd 7970, but for now I will see what I can do with what I have.
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CptBarbossa said:
I did all the stability tests with the overclock. I am getting a new cpu this week anyway so that overclock is going to be pointless. I will try to overclock with the new cpu, run the stability test and then run a graphical test to make sure it isnt drawing too much power or messing with my GPU. I will eventyually need a new psu for when I get the second hd 7970, but for now I will see what I can do with what I have.Sounds like a good plan. Yes I would defiantly upgrade your PSU if you are planning on installing a second GPU.
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