brand new custom pc, super slow and blue screens

kylebro · Feb 12, 2015

i just built a pc from all new parts, and from the first time i turned it on its just been super slow for what it should be.

it is slow from beginning to end, the start up takes 3-5 minutes, programs take ages to load and when i run a game its super laggy with screen tearing. also after a while or if i move to many files around it blue screens me. it blue screens me all the time.

i have reinstalled windows and formatted the ssd

PC Spec:
- Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro 64bit OEM
- Intel Core i7 5820K
- Galax GeForce GTX 970 Hall Of Fame 4GB
- Gigabyte GA-X99-UD4 Motherboard
- Cougar CMX850 850W Power Supply
- G.Skill F4-2133C15Q-16GNT 16GB (4x4GB) DDR4
- Samsung 840 EVO Series 250GB SSD

turkey3_scratch · Feb 12, 2015

What does Task Manager show for CPU and RAM usages?

kylebro · Feb 12, 2015

turkey3_scratch :

straight after start up: CPU 0% RAM 9%

justaguywithagun · Feb 12, 2015

wooo, after spending all that cash on hardware i woulda been sooo mad...

lets see, have you checked temps? if you mounted the cpu hsf wrong it could cause cpu throttling and instability.

have you done anything in the bios? maybe your ram is being funky and not wanting to play at whatever its set at.

speaking of BIOS, have you checked your version to that of the most current non-beta bios available for that board?

justaguywithagun · Feb 12, 2015

also, im sure you did since you have such high end components (psu aside)...but you installed all the mobo/gpu/etc drivers for the rig right? ran windows update? antivirus?

turkey3_scratch · Feb 12, 2015

kylebro :

Sounds to me like it is more SSD related. I am fairly sure task manager also shows SSD usage under a different tab, what does it show for that?

justaguywithagun · Feb 12, 2015

turkey3_scratch :

i disagree. im betting memory related. run samsung's magician software to check for performance deficiencies from the ssd/sata controller

turkey3_scratch · Feb 12, 2015

justaguywithagun :

I didn't mean hardware-related but software-related. It'd help if he could run some other OS like Linux in dualboot to see if RAM is the cause. But I think you're right, RAM does sound right, memtest can help as well as trying individual sticks.

kylebro · Feb 12, 2015

justaguywithagun :

i just checked the temps and the cpu is at 94 but the cooler is working fine

justaguywithagun · Feb 13, 2015

i just checked the temps and the cpu is at 94 but the cooler is working fine
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wow. 94c? at idle? if so, thats way too hot. waaaaay too hot. hot to the point that you dont have your HSF mounted properly.

you need to pull that hsf off, clean the old thermal paste off, apply new, and -properly- install the cpu cooler

kylebro · Feb 13, 2015

after some playing its at 68 idle but 90 in game. the cooler is installed correctly (kraken x61) with brand new paste

justaguywithagun · Feb 13, 2015

90c in just a game is too hot. you gonna hafta do something about that. ~70c idle is disturbing.

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