Hi,
First post here, so let me know if this is the wrong place. I decided to take the plunge upgrade my stock Gateway to a new PC. i'm new to the overclock thing and am trying to tweak my settings. I have downloaded the Intel XTU and am trying to run the bench mark on my new system. I have the optimized bios settings from the motherboard besides for the windows 8 boot setting. Installed all drivers from the motherboard CD and downloaded the newest Intel graphics drivers. I run the benchmark test and the computer freezes with the screen doing a box square pattern or horizontal/vertical lines, it looks like a scrambled screen, but frozen. Psychedelic. A hard power cycle is the only thing that cures it.
Computer also does this randomly. It did it once when logging into windows.
Computer passes CPU and graphics stress test fine. Cores stay below 60C throughout.
I first thought PSU, but I used a PSU calculator and get under 300 watts. PSU is probably 4 years old and rated to 520 Watts. Second thoughts is my memory is too old and/or slow for this new motherboard. Third thought is integrated graphics is overheating...It does this even when I throw my XFX Geforce 6800 Xtreme 256 mb DDR 3 into it.
Thoughts?
SPECS:
Motherboard: ECS Z87H3-M V:1.0 (Optimum default bios settings)
Cooler Master Seidon 120V watercooler
PSU: DYNEX DX-520WPS (12V - 18A connected to motherboard; combined ouput not to exceed 30 A)
Memory DDR3 4sticks 1333MHz 128MX8 1.5V EP
SDD: Torqx 2 64 gb 2.5'' Solid State Drive SATA I/II 3GBPS
First post here, so let me know if this is the wrong place. I decided to take the plunge upgrade my stock Gateway to a new PC. i'm new to the overclock thing and am trying to tweak my settings. I have downloaded the Intel XTU and am trying to run the bench mark on my new system. I have the optimized bios settings from the motherboard besides for the windows 8 boot setting. Installed all drivers from the motherboard CD and downloaded the newest Intel graphics drivers. I run the benchmark test and the computer freezes with the screen doing a box square pattern or horizontal/vertical lines, it looks like a scrambled screen, but frozen. Psychedelic. A hard power cycle is the only thing that cures it.
Computer also does this randomly. It did it once when logging into windows.
Computer passes CPU and graphics stress test fine. Cores stay below 60C throughout.
I first thought PSU, but I used a PSU calculator and get under 300 watts. PSU is probably 4 years old and rated to 520 Watts. Second thoughts is my memory is too old and/or slow for this new motherboard. Third thought is integrated graphics is overheating...It does this even when I throw my XFX Geforce 6800 Xtreme 256 mb DDR 3 into it.
Thoughts?
SPECS:
Motherboard: ECS Z87H3-M V:1.0 (Optimum default bios settings)
Cooler Master Seidon 120V watercooler
PSU: DYNEX DX-520WPS (12V - 18A connected to motherboard; combined ouput not to exceed 30 A)
Memory DDR3 4sticks 1333MHz 128MX8 1.5V EP
SDD: Torqx 2 64 gb 2.5'' Solid State Drive SATA I/II 3GBPS
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