- Aug 5, 2014
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Alright, the last time I posted was evidently about this time last year when I built my first computer. In less than a year the motherboard failed, along with the video card, and started giving me huge problems. Long story short, I saved up my money, and built a new pc, (to which I will leave the specs below), and gathered some components a few weeks ago.
The final component (The CPU) shipped in two days ago, so I started to assemble my PC, and by the end of the night had it running. Next morning, I install windows, and all of my drivers, but I notice freezing. This would happen randomly, but the mouse cursor would usually freeze, with everything else on-screen. It could last a couple seconds, or a minute. If I had a Youtube video running, or I was listening to music, the audio would glitch out, and kinda repeat or "burp" if I froze and nothing would update for a couple seconds.
After Installing a game to try out (Titanfall), I got in, and turned everything up on max settings, and it ran surprisingly well (at first). However, if I tried to join a match with other people, I would CONSTANTLY get errors such as "server connection timed out". It took me at least three tries to get in a game. Once I joined it was stuttering all over the place, however, there was no FPS drop whatsoever. If it wasn't for the stuttering, the game would've been silky-smooth. I thought it was internet lag, given my ping was hovering around 200, but progressively the stuttering/freezing has gotten worse, and I don't know what to do.
I ran mdsched, and windows reported that my RAM was fine. (I also replaced it with two other sticks and problems presisted, as well as replacing the PSU, but that didn't work either.). I also noticed coil whine at one point, but I think it was coming from the old PSU I was using when I swapped the other one. Resource Monitor looked like the CPU was spiking somewhat, but then again my knowledge is fairly limited, so as far as I'm concerned the CPU is probably running fine. I ran "Latencymon", to check for driver/system problems, and it didn't look particularly good:
Latencymon: http://s18.postimg.org/s4ushnz2x/Untitled.jpg
http://postimg.org/image/ubmq3t5tb/
Resource Monitor: http://s10.postimg.org/6x8uqwpmx/Untitled2.jpg
So what am I looking at? Is it a faulty motherboard? Driver problems? I also encountered problems updating the BIOS, where when I hit the delete key to access it, all I get is a blank screen. I had to reset the cmos for it to work too. I've spent almost three days tirelessly working on this, and I'm afraid that I'll have to RMA (If I still can). I'm really hoping there's some solution to this, and hopefully someone can interpret this further for me, since my knowledge is limited in these sorts of things. Thanks in advance.
Specs:
i5 4690k
Corsair h80i
Corsair LP 8GB 2x4 ddr3 1600 ram
Gigabyte Sniper b6 lga 1150 ATX Motherboard
MSI GTX 970 Million Edition 4GB
WD Blue 1tb HDD 7200RPM
Corsair rm650 Fully Modular PSU
Rosewill wireless adapter from old PC
The final component (The CPU) shipped in two days ago, so I started to assemble my PC, and by the end of the night had it running. Next morning, I install windows, and all of my drivers, but I notice freezing. This would happen randomly, but the mouse cursor would usually freeze, with everything else on-screen. It could last a couple seconds, or a minute. If I had a Youtube video running, or I was listening to music, the audio would glitch out, and kinda repeat or "burp" if I froze and nothing would update for a couple seconds.
After Installing a game to try out (Titanfall), I got in, and turned everything up on max settings, and it ran surprisingly well (at first). However, if I tried to join a match with other people, I would CONSTANTLY get errors such as "server connection timed out". It took me at least three tries to get in a game. Once I joined it was stuttering all over the place, however, there was no FPS drop whatsoever. If it wasn't for the stuttering, the game would've been silky-smooth. I thought it was internet lag, given my ping was hovering around 200, but progressively the stuttering/freezing has gotten worse, and I don't know what to do.
I ran mdsched, and windows reported that my RAM was fine. (I also replaced it with two other sticks and problems presisted, as well as replacing the PSU, but that didn't work either.). I also noticed coil whine at one point, but I think it was coming from the old PSU I was using when I swapped the other one. Resource Monitor looked like the CPU was spiking somewhat, but then again my knowledge is fairly limited, so as far as I'm concerned the CPU is probably running fine. I ran "Latencymon", to check for driver/system problems, and it didn't look particularly good:
Latencymon: http://s18.postimg.org/s4ushnz2x/Untitled.jpg
http://postimg.org/image/ubmq3t5tb/
Resource Monitor: http://s10.postimg.org/6x8uqwpmx/Untitled2.jpg
So what am I looking at? Is it a faulty motherboard? Driver problems? I also encountered problems updating the BIOS, where when I hit the delete key to access it, all I get is a blank screen. I had to reset the cmos for it to work too. I've spent almost three days tirelessly working on this, and I'm afraid that I'll have to RMA (If I still can). I'm really hoping there's some solution to this, and hopefully someone can interpret this further for me, since my knowledge is limited in these sorts of things. Thanks in advance.
Specs:
i5 4690k
Corsair h80i
Corsair LP 8GB 2x4 ddr3 1600 ram
Gigabyte Sniper b6 lga 1150 ATX Motherboard
MSI GTX 970 Million Edition 4GB
WD Blue 1tb HDD 7200RPM
Corsair rm650 Fully Modular PSU
Rosewill wireless adapter from old PC
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