PC Crashing, Randomly Grey Blurred Screen?

[ChrisHuddie]

Hi,

PC Randomly crashes randomly (Although i can replicate it by synthetic stressing) so it's probably related, but very occasionally it will crash when doing something very simple under low load.

It will give 2 results, a BSOD with CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT or it will give a Grey/Black Jaggered screen until it's rebooted.

Here is a picture:

There is no Overclock, Bios has been set to Defaults. - Temps are rarely above 25 degrees.

Specs:
AMD FX-8370
Corsair H60
EVGA SuperNOVA NEX 750w
Asrock N68-GS4
8Gb HyperX 1600Mhz
128gb Patriot SSD
500GB HDD
GTX 970 (Not being used, Running Onboard)
Did have an r9 380 8gb but we returned that thinking that was the issue.
Running Windows 10.

I've tried the DDU Remover to remove the driver for the r9 380 and re-installed, no luck.
Have also done a Memtest and it's Passed with no errors in the last 4 hours.

Any suggestions are fully welcomed

 

[GhislainG]

I haven't found an Asrock N68-GS4 motherboard that supports your CPU; it only supports a non-overclocked FX-8370E. What synthetic stressing replicates the issue?

 

[ChrisHuddie]

Intel burn & Prime95

 

[ChrisHuddie]

I haven't found an Asrock N68-GS4 motherboard that supports your CPU; it only supports a non-overclocked FX-8370E. What synthetic stressing replicates the issue?

Yeah you're right, Highest it supports on their website is the FD6330WMW6KHK; I'll note this isn't my rig, i just agreed to having a look for a friend lol.

 

[GhislainG]

Intel burn & Prime95

The VRM can't handle the load; why not use a motherboard that fully supports your CPU? Did you check the thermal margins with AMD Overdrive? Are they less than 10°C and does the frequency drop to 1.4 GHz?

 

[ChrisHuddie]

Intel burn & Prime95

The VRM can't handle the load; why not use a motherboard that fully supports your CPU? Did you check the thermal margins with AMD Overdrive? Are they less than 10°C and does the frequency drop to 1.4 GHz?

Overdrive wont run because guess what.... Chipset not supported lol, Makes sense as to why it shuts down now.