Hi All,
I've recently just bought the following parts but am not having much joy in getting it working:
AMD Phenom II X6 1055T 95W
MSI 870-C45
4x2Gb DDR3 133 eBuyer Extra Value RAM (Micron)
Sapphire Radeon HD 6850 1Gb GDDR5
Artic Freezer Pro rev 2
CiT 700w PSU
WD Green series 500gb HD (came out of my Stora)
Basically the system is very unstable - I bought all the parts from eBuyer bar the HD which came from my NetGear Stora and I know it works well as I've had it in my other system for about 3 months. When I got the parts, the first issue was with the Graphics card, it was faulty on arrival, I tested it in my new build and it wouldn't run the windows experience index after drivers were installed AMD and the driver disk. Tested on my mates machine and it BSOD on install of the drivers. Have recieved a replacement for it which seems to work fine now... except for... I'm still having random crashes
The crashes are definately hardware related as they are not Bluescreens but screen freezes and at one point random reboots (but that seemed to have stopped and now it just freezes) in order to save myself some grief and to prevent my HD 6850 getting damaged I've replaced it with a known working 8400gs for testing/stability purpose.
Oh just to note this is a new install of Windows 7...
I've checked tempretures both by touch and through speedfan which reports around 32c idle and 42c 100% CPU load. The system is reporting about 30c - 50c for the motherboard tempreture. So don't think its a thermal trip out.
The PSU is reporting about 11.9 - 11.3volts on the +12v Rail. I think this could be a problem but this was only gathered from Aida64 not by hard measuring it with DMM.
On the phone to eBuyer where it all came from, the tech support mentioned its because the memory they sell is not compatible with the MSI motherboard (he said the RAM generally works better for cheapo motherboards) So I am now returning the RAM with Kingston 2x4Gb DDR3 1333 which are on the manufacturers approved list of memory, and a new Artic Power 700w PSU which people have reviewed very highly given the price (~£45)
Do you think the Tech support guy is right as this is pretty new to me, motherboards compatible with only specific manufacturers RAM sounds very odd and fishy to me...
I did get the machine to run a little more stable by downclocking the RAM from 1333 to 800 and it did run one cycle of memtest without any issues, however Windows MEmory Diagnostic did report an error (but MS being MS, it didn't state any details...)
Any advice/tips greatly appreiciated as I am now Bald and have no finger nails and haven't slept for about 8 days (ever since I had this delivered to me)
Thanks
I've recently just bought the following parts but am not having much joy in getting it working:
AMD Phenom II X6 1055T 95W
MSI 870-C45
4x2Gb DDR3 133 eBuyer Extra Value RAM (Micron)
Sapphire Radeon HD 6850 1Gb GDDR5
Artic Freezer Pro rev 2
CiT 700w PSU
WD Green series 500gb HD (came out of my Stora)
Basically the system is very unstable - I bought all the parts from eBuyer bar the HD which came from my NetGear Stora and I know it works well as I've had it in my other system for about 3 months. When I got the parts, the first issue was with the Graphics card, it was faulty on arrival, I tested it in my new build and it wouldn't run the windows experience index after drivers were installed AMD and the driver disk. Tested on my mates machine and it BSOD on install of the drivers. Have recieved a replacement for it which seems to work fine now... except for... I'm still having random crashes
The crashes are definately hardware related as they are not Bluescreens but screen freezes and at one point random reboots (but that seemed to have stopped and now it just freezes) in order to save myself some grief and to prevent my HD 6850 getting damaged I've replaced it with a known working 8400gs for testing/stability purpose.
Oh just to note this is a new install of Windows 7...
I've checked tempretures both by touch and through speedfan which reports around 32c idle and 42c 100% CPU load. The system is reporting about 30c - 50c for the motherboard tempreture. So don't think its a thermal trip out.
The PSU is reporting about 11.9 - 11.3volts on the +12v Rail. I think this could be a problem but this was only gathered from Aida64 not by hard measuring it with DMM.
On the phone to eBuyer where it all came from, the tech support mentioned its because the memory they sell is not compatible with the MSI motherboard (he said the RAM generally works better for cheapo motherboards) So I am now returning the RAM with Kingston 2x4Gb DDR3 1333 which are on the manufacturers approved list of memory, and a new Artic Power 700w PSU which people have reviewed very highly given the price (~£45)
Do you think the Tech support guy is right as this is pretty new to me, motherboards compatible with only specific manufacturers RAM sounds very odd and fishy to me...
I did get the machine to run a little more stable by downclocking the RAM from 1333 to 800 and it did run one cycle of memtest without any issues, however Windows MEmory Diagnostic did report an error (but MS being MS, it didn't state any details...)
Any advice/tips greatly appreiciated as I am now Bald and have no finger nails and haven't slept for about 8 days (ever since I had this delivered to me)
Thanks