- Mar 6, 2018
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Hi everyone,
Let me start by saying I've looked over the other threads discussing CPUs and BSODs and nothing there appears helpful.
So I'm getting about 1-2 BSODs a day and I have reason to think it's my 4-year-old CPU. My rig is primarily built for gaming and starting about 2 weeks ago I noticed I was getting significant frame drops whenever I'd switch between games. I'm aware this is sometimes a GPU or driver issue tied to VRAM but this was far more pronounced than I've ever experienced and in some cases a reboot didn't solve it.
Then came the pop-ups from trying to run certain games, saying "Your CPU isn't fast enough to run this program" and even with reboots allowing me to override these I'd still get major framerate lag. The BSODs started not long after that and have been continuous even after messing with my BIOS and updating my OS.
I also haven't added any new hardware, software, or externals that would lead to this. The BSODs themselves seem to happen mostly whenever I'm multi-tabbing in my browser and other windows than doing anything else like gaming.
My first suspicion was the GPU, but having experienced GPU-related BSODs before on this rig, I'm seeing different symptoms this time around. Bad RAM may be the cause but I'm not ready to go to the trouble of testing my sticks until I rule out the CPU.
One other relevant factor to this: I've done crypto mining at times on this system using XMR-STAK, which leverages both the GPU and CPU. My last few times running it, I noticed a major hashrate drop in the CPU's output while the GPU remained consistent. So perhaps mining somehow damaged the processor and created these other problems. I've avoided running the mining program since all this began.
Any advice or guidance would be really helpful. Below are my specs and some images of the BSOD and the error report I'd get on reboot. I haven't done any overclocking:
CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K Devil’s Canyon Quad-Core 4.0 GHz LGA 1150
Heatsink: Cooler Master V8 GTS
Mobo: ASUS Sabertooth Z97 Mark S ATX
RAM: 4 x Corsair Vengeance Pro 8GB DDR3 1866
HDD: 1 x Seagate ST1000DM003 1TB, 1 x WD Red 3TB NAS
PSU: Corsair CHX850 ATX12V
GPU: 1 x EVGA GeForce 980 Ti
OS: Win7 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601)
Let me start by saying I've looked over the other threads discussing CPUs and BSODs and nothing there appears helpful.
So I'm getting about 1-2 BSODs a day and I have reason to think it's my 4-year-old CPU. My rig is primarily built for gaming and starting about 2 weeks ago I noticed I was getting significant frame drops whenever I'd switch between games. I'm aware this is sometimes a GPU or driver issue tied to VRAM but this was far more pronounced than I've ever experienced and in some cases a reboot didn't solve it.
Then came the pop-ups from trying to run certain games, saying "Your CPU isn't fast enough to run this program" and even with reboots allowing me to override these I'd still get major framerate lag. The BSODs started not long after that and have been continuous even after messing with my BIOS and updating my OS.
I also haven't added any new hardware, software, or externals that would lead to this. The BSODs themselves seem to happen mostly whenever I'm multi-tabbing in my browser and other windows than doing anything else like gaming.
My first suspicion was the GPU, but having experienced GPU-related BSODs before on this rig, I'm seeing different symptoms this time around. Bad RAM may be the cause but I'm not ready to go to the trouble of testing my sticks until I rule out the CPU.
One other relevant factor to this: I've done crypto mining at times on this system using XMR-STAK, which leverages both the GPU and CPU. My last few times running it, I noticed a major hashrate drop in the CPU's output while the GPU remained consistent. So perhaps mining somehow damaged the processor and created these other problems. I've avoided running the mining program since all this began.
Any advice or guidance would be really helpful. Below are my specs and some images of the BSOD and the error report I'd get on reboot. I haven't done any overclocking:
CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K Devil’s Canyon Quad-Core 4.0 GHz LGA 1150
Heatsink: Cooler Master V8 GTS
Mobo: ASUS Sabertooth Z97 Mark S ATX
RAM: 4 x Corsair Vengeance Pro 8GB DDR3 1866
HDD: 1 x Seagate ST1000DM003 1TB, 1 x WD Red 3TB NAS
PSU: Corsair CHX850 ATX12V
GPU: 1 x EVGA GeForce 980 Ti
OS: Win7 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601)
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