Having Computer Trouble

[JDyer]

I recently built a new computer, specs will be attached but since the beginning I've had issues with it. Initially it was several BSoDs, bit everything else ran quickly and smoothly. The BSoDs seemed to come and go in clusters, sometimes every day of the week there was one others maybe only one the entire week. Sometimes multiple in a day.

Not always the same one but the same cluster, "PAGE FAULT IN NONPAGED AREA" "SYSTEM SERVICE EXCEPTION" and a couple others that escape me.
This shouldnt be, the computer is (mostly) new.
On top of the BSoDs there are constant 'check disk' errors and requirements for startup repair.

Im honestly at a total loss. And now my computer is slowing down and heating up noticeably, idling at 29-30 before and mid 30s to 40s now, while gaming (Civ 5 in this case) it got up to 55, and Civilization is by no means a demanding game.

And ive randomly begun to have errors with Catalyst, as in it wouldnt launch at all. I have regained control of it now though, ran autotune and the reboot required a chkdsk which is going now.

In terms of performance degrade the fps has dropped and ive gotten a lot of stuttering on games like Red Orchestra 2 (at ultra) while i never had before. And boot up is taking much longer, sometimes a full minute at the Windows splash then black screen either after or more commonly before login.

Im stuck, i have AVG free and Malwarebytes and am cautious about Downloading and have plenty of free space. Any advice is immensly appreciated.

Specs
CPU- AMD FX-8320 Unlocked OCed to 4.0*
GPU- Radeon 7850HD (OC to 1K*)
Motherboard- GIGABYTE FXA-UD3
Ram- 2x Corsair Vengeance (8gb)
Hard Drive-
635 gb (salvaged for OS)
1TB Seagate

Heatsink- Coolermaster, ~120+ tall. Includes 120mm fan. Threaded copper leads for dispersion.

Fans-
Case includes frontal and external 120mm fans

GPU has dual fans

Power- Thermaltyke 480 watt

* Not all the time

Im sorry if this is in the wrong place, and to summarize:
-BSOD and startup issues.
-Possibly GPU or Mem related
-Performance slowed, temp increase
-Software issues

 

[ssddx]

hmmm....

run memtest on your ram sticks. see if you get any errors.
run disktune or other program to test your hdd for health, dead zones and other issues
if possible check psu output voltages
run speedfan or other software and look at catalyst to see idle and load cpu and gpu temperatures
put your cpu clock back to stock and reset the bios to defaults


my thoughts?

-overclocking can cause serious system instability. everything from bsod on up. reset to default clock and bios settings to verify its not an issue.
-bad ram can cause slowdown, bad performance and bsod.
-failing hdd can cause slowdown, bad performance and bsod
-high temps can cause system shutdown but typically a cpu overheat force shuts down the pc and gpu overheat shuts down the gpu until heat is dispersed.
-a bad or underrated psu can cause system crashes, strange performance issues

of course there could be something software wrong but i would suggest checking all of the hardware options first!

 

[JDyer]

I tried Memtest but it didnt run properly, projected over 100,000 errors.
So ill try disktune and run it standard. I have speedfan but it only detects 3/5 of my fans, and doesnt allow control of any of them.
Thanks for the reply!

 

[ssddx]

sounds like you at the very least have major issues with your ram.

do all the tests if you can and go from there. for starters i'd try new mem sticks