Gothfather

Thank you for the responses and sorry for my late reply. December was very busy and I spent January doing more tests to narrow done my issue and borrowing hardware to do some tests. So I have narrowed down the crash to the USB I/O. I can induce a I/O freeze by using a peer to peer chat program and using Audacity to record an audio file. I borrowed a razor head set that also froze the USB I/O ports so it is not limited to my yeti microphone. I also borrowed a ps/2 keyboard which I was able to use when the usb I/O ports froze. I am using the usb ports from the motherboard's rear so not a front panel or usb hub which could have been faulty or poorly connected to the motherboard. Task manager shows that my system is running when the usb I/O freeze and the fact that I can navigate with the Ps/2 keyboard confirms this observation. Recap. I have tested a headset, yeti microphone, used discord, teamspeak and audacity to all reproduce the freeze. The system still runs during the freeze and a Ps/2 keyboard is functional showing that the I/O freeze seems to be limited to the usb I/O. When the system has been running for many hours aka all day and I switch my primary sound device from a polk usb speaker set to headphones there is a good chance this will freeze the I/O as well. So it isn't limited to the programs above. So given this new information can anyone help me? or am I simply delaying the inevitable formatting of my boot drive and reinstallation of windows? Any help is appreciated and again thanks for the comments above sorry for my late response but with the holidays and doing the tests above took more time than expected.

System specs Windows 10 64 bit, Version 10.0.17134 Build 17134 i7-6800k Asus X99-A II motherboard. Bios: X99-A II Bios 1401 (Bios updater says no updates available) boot drive: Samsung 850 evo 1 TB 444GB free space Toshiba DT01aca300 3TB drive WD WD30EFRX-68EUZN0 3TB drive EVGA FTW2 GTX 1080 driver version 417.35 release date 12/12/2018 (updater says no updates available) Benq monitor GW2765 60hz ASUS monitor Swift PG278QR 165hz Power Supply BeQuiet Dark power Pro 11 650w power supply 80 plus platinum I am finding that windows 10, Version 10.0.17134 Build 17134, is freezing on me in a very odd manner. I clicked on the date and time on the windows taskbar just as on of these annoying freezes happens, the mouse and keyboard were frozen and unplugging them and plugging them back in didn't help. They are usb so I usually get an audio alert when I unplug one of them but not during the freeze. Yet my system wasn't fully frozen, the clock worked and I could see a patch for world of warships progressing but I couldn't hear anyone on teamspeak 3 nor could they hear me. So my internet connection was working but teamspeak wasn't the system clock was working, I could see the seconds tick by, but the input devices where frozen. I let the system sit like this for about 20 minutes and then my monitors when into sleep mode. So my system was sort of frozen but not completely, some programs that access the internet froze up but another one didn't. The clock worked but the mouse and keyboard didn't. I am getting these freezes at least once a day if not more. TeamSpeak causes freezes to happen every 5 minutes. What I have done to try and solve the issue. Reinstalled my video drivers Reinstalled TeamSpeak (but remember that the freezes are not limited to when I use TS) ran a DXdiagnostic (see file attached) [I don't know how to read this however] I checked to see if my audio drivers needed to be updated through device manager and each time I checked I was told the driver was up to date. Not sure what else to try? Any suggestions? DxDiag.txt

I'll check sound levels for sure after the exchange. Good advice. Currently with 7 case fans + 2 CPU fans and 2 on board GPU fans the rig is very quiet, the hard drive is the loudest piece of equipment in the rig. At 15 cm (6 inches) above the rig the decibel output was 45, at 30 cm (1 foot) it was 40. (using a phone app to measure here so not super sensitive equipment but this gives you an idea of the sound levels. It is raining hard outside at the time so some of the sound will be ambient rain noise.) Right now as I type this post the rain is louder than my computer. Please note that as I am surfing the net the strain on the system is minimal so this shouldn't be take as how quiet the system is under load. i am quite please at just how quiet the bequiet! equipment is.

I already have the fans they are already in the system spinning away as I type. What i don't have yet is the hybrid video card. The video card ADDs the extra fan because it comes with a rad & fan. SO being hell bent on adding a fan is because the video card comes WITH the fan in a closed loop.

The radiator will not have zero CFM however. Assuming I keep the current ratio of intake to exhaust the added exhaust radiator will be problematic. The room the computer is in is dusty (not industrial levels but dusty non the less) so positive pressure actually will help maintain the cases cooling qualities over the long run as dust will not get inside the case to reduce the efficiency of the system's heatsinks. For a radiator to be effective it requires airflow OVER the "fins" to bleed off the heat from the liquid into the air and that requires airflow which requires CFM. So adding the radiator WILL reduce the pressure, in the case how much is in question but given that a case isn't airtight to begin with and there is only 40 CFM difference currently adding a vdeo card exhaust radiator is going to drop the CFM differential by at least half if not nearly all of it. Even if the radiator reduces CFM of the fan to 1/2 of a 120mm fan, so say around 25 CFM i go from positive pressure to nearly neutral at only a 15 CFM differential between intake and exhaust, which probably isn't enough to keep dust out of the system. This is why I feel i need to replace the rear fan exhaust fan with the exhaust radiator and take the now extra fan and make it an intake fan. The issue here isn't just cooling it is creating a system that cools effectively WHILE maintaining positive pressure to counteract the dusty environment the computer operates in.

Made a typo on the intake CFM value corrected to 221.8. In my example the rear exhaust fan is the radiator and it is exhaust.

yes. The case has LOTS of clearance on the top and the case is deep so you can actually get 3 140mm fans on the top all of which sit behind the optical drive bays. I just put the arrow there so it is easy to read the pic. The arrows do not represent exact placement of the fans.

Sorry that was a typo should read 221.8 CFM intake

I have a Phanteks Enthoo pro case with two bottom 120mm intake fans and two 140mm front intake fans. For exhaust i have 3 140mm fans 2 on the top of the case one at the rear. This creates and intake of 221.8 CMF and an exhaust of 181.2 CMF. I am adding an EVGA GTX 1080 FTW hybrid video card which has a small radiator and a 120mm fan. I am pretty sure adding this 4th exhaust fan will push my case from a positive pressure case to a negative or neutral pressure case. I prefer to keep the case at positive pressure because it is in a room that gets dusty. I have room for 3 top fans, 2 front fans, two bottom 120mm fans and 1 rear fan. So this radiator fan from the video card is going to fill up all my fan slots so adding a fan isn't an option. So should i move the rear exhaust fan and put it in the open top fan slot and switch it to intake and add the video card radiator & fan to the rear slot? This should balance out the box in terms of maintaining positive pressure but will having two fans on the top as exhaust and one fan on the top as intake cause issues with air flow? The picture bellow shows the fan placement and the direction of air flow for the case in question. (Placement isn't exact.) My case 100% for sure supports 3 x 140mm fan on the top, 2 x 140mm fans in the front, 2 x 120mm fans on the bottom, and one 140mm fan in the rear. (I have placed a fan in every slot at one point during my build so i know for sure the case supports the fan size and positions I have indicated. The 120 MM fans (bottom) each have a 50.5 CFM rating and the 140 fans (top and front) have a 60.4 CFM rating. I haven't been able to find out what the radiator fan on the video card radiator's 120mm fan CFM rating is. Does anyone see a problem with the top having two exhaust and one intake fan?

Well this is embarrassing. I downloaded the bios on Friday the 7th which you can clearly see in my Asus utility folder yet it appears I forgot to actually update the bios. I honestly have no idea how I failed to do that as it was literally the first file I downloaded after installing the OS. Surprise Surprise updating the Bios solved the problem. I still can't believed I forgot to update after downloading the bloody file. All tests are passing. Thank you. ~shuffles off embarrassed~

I just built my own system and i believe my i7 6800k is defective as it only runs at 3.1 GHz well less than the listed 3.4 GHz for the chip. intel's processor diagnostic tool fails my CPU, Intel's Extreme Tuning Utility shows the max clock speed to be 3.11 GHz when I stress test the system or run a benchmark. The Benchmark for the CPU is 1294. CPUid also shows the CPU clock at 3.105 GHz. (See pics) System specs windows 10 64-bit Bios: 0601 I7-6800k 3.4 Ghz 32 gigs (4x8gigs) of Ram they are rated at 3000 Mhz but I have not yet over clocked my system so they are only running at 2333 Mhz Asus X99 - A ii motherboard EVGA geforce GTX 1080 FTW clocked at 1721 (Again no overclocking on my end yet) 1 TB SSD samsung 850 evo 3 TB HHD BenQ GW2765 monitor running at 1440p heatsink: Bequiet! Dark rock Pro 3 rated at 250w (both fans are PWN Powersupply: Dark Pro 11 650W 80plus Platinum cooling: 2x 120mm silent wing 2 fans (2 intake) pwm 5x 140mm silent wing 2 fans (2 intake, 3 exhaust) Pwn The fans are hooked into the motherboard I am using a PWM hub for most of the case fans. I just build my system last week and was burning it in via normal use and I was monitoring heat. The plan was to start stressing the system to see how much leeway i have at overclocking the system when I discovered the issue with the CPU. I just used the bios and some simpler tools to see usage and heat of the components. I am 95% sure I did nothing wrong with my build and I just got a bad CPU but it has been over 15 years since I last built my own system back in the days of dip switches and so on. So this was a lot easier but things have changes so maybe I missed a step. To be clear no overclocking has been done yet but the system was designed to be overclocked. It was the process of stressing the system at stock clock speed that alerted me to the problem. Not that it is important to the issue but this isn't just a gaming rig It was designed for both gaming and video editing which is why I went with a slower clock speed but more cores for my CPU and why I went with 4 channels vs. 3 channels for the memory.

thank you

Does the valley actually stress test the GPU isn't it just a short benchmark?

I have recently build a PC and i would like to "stress test" it does the community have any suggestions of what i should run to stress and test my system? I want to test the cooling of the system as well as performance at factory settings before looking into overclocking my system.