PC random freezes, checked as much as I can

[Jeags]

Hi all, 

 

I'm having a bit of trouble with my PC lately. It just seems to freeze randomly with no pattern. I have ran mem test 86 with no problem, swapped out the RAM, changed my HDD and reset my overclock and updated drivers to no avail. I really am stuck as of what to do next. The only evidence I could find was my 1TB HDD has a few errors when checked with crystal disk, but even with that removed, the issue remained. Have I missed any other troubleshooting?  My specs are below.

Thanks. 

 

Specs:

CPU - AMD FX-6300

GPU - R9 270X

Motherboard - Gigabyte GA-970a ud3p

RAM - 12 GB (3x 4GB) DDR3 Crucial Ballistix Sport

PSU - Be Quiet 630W 

Storage - 120 GB SSD (OS), 500 GB SSD (Games), 1T HDD (Misc. storage)

[boey]

what SSD are they specifically? Had this problem multiple times, it was because the OS disk was a cheap DRAM-less SSD(Sandisk SSD Plus, Klevv, Tecware and Lexar SSDs to be specific). Switched all to Samsung 860 Evos and WD Blue SSDs and it all went well

[Jeags]

I'm pretty sure my OS SSD is a Kingston SSD. Do you think it could be that? Never really occurred to me.

[Mark Kaine]

2 hours ago, _d0nut said:

what SSD are they specifically? Had this problem multiple times, it was because the OS disk was a cheap DRAM-less SSD(Sandisk SSD Plus, Klevv, Tecware and Lexar SSDs to be specific). Switched all to Samsung 860 Evos and WD Blue SSDs and it all went well

 

1 hour ago, Jeags said:

I'm pretty sure my OS SSD is a Kingston SSD. Do you think it could be that? Never really occurred to me.

Yep had this problem too. 

 

Never use a cheap Kingston or similar for OS drive. 

 

 

The problem is it will work just fine initially. 

 

After some time it won't. 

 

Which is exactly the weakness of cheap SSDs. 

 

The manufacturers save ~$10 and performance and longevity suffers for it. 

 

Get 3D NAND + DRAM cache SDD,  otherwise even a standard hdd would be preferable. 

[Jeags]

Right, I'll start looking at alternatives now. any suggestions? Cheers.

[Jeags]

What do we think about the Samsung 850 evo? I've already got the 500gb for my games library, probably worth investing in the 120GB just for OS?

[Mark Kaine]

Evo 850 and 860 are fine. 

[Jeags]

Great, I'll get an 860 today.

[Mark Kaine]