My pc is freezing

r0ttena

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Sep 23, 2016
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Hello guys, so i built a new system 3 days ago, here are the specs
MB: Gigabyte Z97 gaming 3
CPU: i7 4790K /Gammax 300
VGA: Sapphire R9 Fury Tri-X
RAM: Corsair vengence 2x4
HDD: some old samsung from my old system 320GB
PSU: CORSAIR AX750

So i turned on pc and started downloading battlefield 4. I got into the game and after 15 minutes my screen got frozen, i had to hard reboot my pc.
I tried few times playing the game but results were the same.
After that i downloaded Aida64 and began to test my system.
I stressed cpu, ram, vga and hdd. After 20 minutes of testing on each of them nothing happened and then i stressed cpu cache. Pc got frozen in like 3 minutes.
I have never heared about damaged cache especially on this cpu.
My question is: is cpu cache causing freeze while i'm playing or can it be hdd?(my hdd has huge drops in hdtune)

I also played NBA 2K17 and there was no freeze at all.
 
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Hi there r0ttena,

We can't really be sure if the freezes are 100 % caused by your HDD, but the drive is failing. It has some bad sectors on it, that were reallocated. They would continue to appear until it becomes inaccessible.
This is why, you really need to back up the data stored on it.

My suggestion would be to replace the drive and use this one as a secondary one and store just non important data on it.

Cheers,
D_Know_WD :)
Hi there r0ttena,

As you think there may be something wrong with the drive, it would be nice to back up the data stored on it.
After that, you can test it with some of these: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/282651-32-best-diagnostic-testing-utility

See if there are any pending/reallocated and uncorrectable sectors in the SMART report.

Apart from that, I believe you can measure your systems temps.

Let me know how this goes,
D_Know_WD :)
 


i just did what you said and this are the results:
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is it bad?
 
Hi there r0ttena,

We can't really be sure if the freezes are 100 % caused by your HDD, but the drive is failing. It has some bad sectors on it, that were reallocated. They would continue to appear until it becomes inaccessible.
This is why, you really need to back up the data stored on it.

My suggestion would be to replace the drive and use this one as a secondary one and store just non important data on it.

Cheers,
D_Know_WD :)
 
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