Hi guys,
I've bought a new gaming system:
e8500
GA-X48-DS4
ATI HD4870
2x2GB Crosair XMS2 Dominator 4-4-4-12 800 Mhz
780W Hiper PSU
Windows Vista 64 Ultimate
I've assembled it a installed Vista and apropriate uptodate drivers, everything done smoothly.
I wanted to run a few benchmark before overcloking to see the difference.
1. On stock settings run 3D Mark Vantage and get it through with about 7500 points.
2. Still on stock settings run 3D Mark 2006 and that froze.
3. I decided not to try to make the system stable on stock settings when I want to OC anyway, so I started with OC
4. Set CPU to 400x9.5 = 3.8 Ghz and start playing with Prime95 . I came to a setting with CPU Vcore = 1.34V and FSB = Base + 0.05V (that +0.05maybe not needed, needs further optimization). This run for 22 hours flawlesly. I'm not sure if I have to setup the Prime95 any different from default. I enabled the Round off Checking and run the Torture Test>Large FFTs.
5. After the 22 hours I was confident with the system beeing stable and I run the 3D Mark 2006 benchmark again. And it would freeze again 3/3 times. In the meantime, I had once graphics driver issues, the Vista was saying that there was a driver problem and for second or two the screen went blank . Even the 3D Mark 2006 would not proceed once saying something about 3D error. I have the latest Catalist drivers 8.512 from ATI website installed yesterday... Can graphics drivers/graphics card cause system freezing?
6. I'm running memtest86+ while I'm at work for 12 hours to see whether the RAM is not the problem.
Assuming that the RAM is ok when I get home, what should I do. What kind of tests can I take to see where is the problem? Graphics Card/Drivers | PSU | CPU/mobo voltages ???
please advice guys! thanks
I've bought a new gaming system:
e8500
GA-X48-DS4
ATI HD4870
2x2GB Crosair XMS2 Dominator 4-4-4-12 800 Mhz
780W Hiper PSU
Windows Vista 64 Ultimate
I've assembled it a installed Vista and apropriate uptodate drivers, everything done smoothly.
I wanted to run a few benchmark before overcloking to see the difference.
1. On stock settings run 3D Mark Vantage and get it through with about 7500 points.
2. Still on stock settings run 3D Mark 2006 and that froze.
3. I decided not to try to make the system stable on stock settings when I want to OC anyway, so I started with OC
4. Set CPU to 400x9.5 = 3.8 Ghz and start playing with Prime95 . I came to a setting with CPU Vcore = 1.34V and FSB = Base + 0.05V (that +0.05maybe not needed, needs further optimization). This run for 22 hours flawlesly. I'm not sure if I have to setup the Prime95 any different from default. I enabled the Round off Checking and run the Torture Test>Large FFTs.
5. After the 22 hours I was confident with the system beeing stable and I run the 3D Mark 2006 benchmark again. And it would freeze again 3/3 times. In the meantime, I had once graphics driver issues, the Vista was saying that there was a driver problem and for second or two the screen went blank . Even the 3D Mark 2006 would not proceed once saying something about 3D error. I have the latest Catalist drivers 8.512 from ATI website installed yesterday... Can graphics drivers/graphics card cause system freezing?
6. I'm running memtest86+ while I'm at work for 12 hours to see whether the RAM is not the problem.
Assuming that the RAM is ok when I get home, what should I do. What kind of tests can I take to see where is the problem? Graphics Card/Drivers | PSU | CPU/mobo voltages ???
please advice guys! thanks