Why do I keep getting the BSOD? And forever crashing games?

Mz_Blackrose

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I built my computer about a year ago and the only problems I've had is the constant crashing, freezing, or game crashes. With the games, they'll just stop and say "'Game' has stopped working." With my freezing/skipping issue, the screen will just freeze and whatever sound is playing will glitch and turn into this really obnoxious noise. I restart it then. Sometimes it'll skip around, freezing and making noise then acting normal for about 3 seconds then more freezing. Then, of course, there's the blue screens. It'll crash, the blue screen will come up (I can't even remember the error messages - I've gotten so many different ones), and I'll get that super obnoxious noise.

Does anyone have any idea why this is happening? I've tried reinstalling widows but that didn't help. I've also done a little research and ruled that it could be 1 of 3 things: CPU, Mobo, or Ram. All of them are expensive to replace and I just want to know if I'm replacing the right thing before I waste money. Thanks in advance! :D
 
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If all is good now, shouldn't be any problems, if there are can always try raising the DRAM voltage + 0.05 (perfectly safe) or come back and give a shout, feel free to PM me if needed, I'm in daily

Mz_Blackrose

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MSI G45 Z87 Mobo
intel i5-4670K
Corsair Vengeance Pro 8GB (DDR3 1600)
I never actually messed around with the DRAM settings and I'm not sure where I'd look to see what they're on.
 

Tradesman1

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That might be part of things, if not touched you are prob running them at say 1333/9 or 10, try going into the BIOS and find XMP and enable it, select 1600 and see how that is. There's a free app on the web called CPU-Z, download it and run it, then look in the Memory tab if at 1333 the frequency will show as 667 (true freq), it should be at 800 (true freq x 2 = effective freq of 1600)
 

Mz_Blackrose

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I see there are two ways to get it to run at 1600 and I didn't turn on the XMP but just selected 1600 from the ram frequency. Is this okay or will there be an issue? I googled it and someone mentioned issues with timings? Also, overclocking was brought up as well. Don't want to overclock at this very moment.
 

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It looks like it's working now. Thank you. Though I have one question - if my issue continues, what should I do next?