Bad GPU or something else?

[grenade252]

I just built my computer about a week ago. It's now starting to freeze, drop fps, and be jumpy. Specs are MSI R9 290x, I5-4690, Asrock H97 Killer MOBO, 8gb G.Skill Ram, Seagate Barracuda 1tb 7200rpm HDD, 630watt Rosewill PSU, 

 

While playing League of Legends, the fps used to stay at 60 constantly, now it will randomly drop 10-20 fps and stutter like my pos old computer used to do.

 

When playing BF4 now it too is having FPS drops. I was just playing and it would go from 100 fps to 37 fps and the game would jump around. I just played again for like 5 minutes and it was worse. I was in a boat just driving around watching my FPS, one time it went from around 90fps down to 3 fps and jumped all over, it also went from 140 out in the open down to 60(it would normally hold constant around 150fps.

 

Also, this may not be related, but sometimes(more often in BF4) the mouse will freeze/jump around on the screen. It will sometimes do it just on the internet too but not nearly as often as in game.

 

WIth the game running right now: CPU 88%, Memory 89%, Disk was all over the place(high when I initially reduced screen then it lowered), GPU 100%

Temps: GPU  74c. CPU 68c

 

 

[Joshua Ondangan]

are you using the reference design r9 290x?

[grenade252]

are you using the reference design r9 290x?

This is the one I'm using. 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127773

[chopdok]

Run anti-virus scan first of all.

 

I would suggest trying FurMark to check for throttling. That said, FurMark on R9 290X is Pucker factor 6.5, so be carefull.

[Joshua Ondangan]

This is the one I'm using. 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127773

that looks like a pretty cool gpu.

 

could you give stress testing a try like the brother above me said? might loop down or might stay good stable but to find what's wrong we should consider all stuff.

 

are there anything else you've tried bro?

[pedro69]

If your mouse also freezes just browsing the internet I doubt it is the video card causing all of this. I would check the memory first. Run each stick separately and check if it improves. Maybe run Memtest.

[grenade252]

I'm running Norton and when that is done I'll run a memory test. Could running FuMark possibly mess up my gpu?

[vembutech]

So as said can try for memory test and the ram stick check which might help you.

[grenade252]

Norton didn't find any viruses. I used the Windows ram test and it found nothing. I also ran Memtest for a couple hours with two running at 2047 megabytes each and it found nothing, I may run it all night too. Any other ideas? I haven't run Furmark yet because I'm afraid it might damage my GPU(if it isn't already messed up), should I try running it?

[Joshua Ondangan]

try the free malwarebyte been pretty good to a lot of people.

[grenade252]

try the free malwarebyte been pretty good to a lot of people.

found nothing

[Joshua Ondangan]

well I'm kinda running out of ideas (been drinking for a while >.<) but hey if you got a 2nd pcie 3.0 slot or something mind if you can try putting the gpu there and run some test?

[chamath]

What about trying this?

 

If you can find another hard drive, install a fresh copy of windows and install your games and check again

 

You can also try to  install new catalyst drivers 

[grenade252]

Could it be that I need a BIOS update? When I use F-Stream tuning it shows me having the first one(1.10) and the latest is 1.90, but when I choose to update it, it won't. Should I manually install 1.90 from the Asrock website? If so, which one? 

[The Toaster]

Could it be that I need a BIOS update? When I use F-Stream tuning it shows me having the first one(1.10) and the latest is 1.90, but when I choose to update it, it won't. Should I manually install 1.90 from the Asrock website? If so, which one? 

Could be. I would try it, but first is your gpu in the right PCI-E slot?

[grenade252]

Could be. I would try it, but first is your gpu in the right PCI-E slot?

It's in the top PCIE2 slot. There is also a bottom PCIE4 slot.

[LabRat]

 I don't know how good a rosewill PS is. I never purchased or used any. your card is very power hungry.

 

The card........ grab software and under clock the gpu and it's ram. might be a bad card. I learned to avoid MSI products over the years.

 

could be taking too long to pull data off the disc?

 

You might want to consider the BIOS up[date suggested. board could be bad. try the mouse in other usb slots.

 

try a simple cmos reset before anything.

 

here's a big one............. whatever software you installed that came with your MB ( especially the asrock stuff ). uninstall it for now.

 

try a different sata port for the HD. maybe even a different cable.

 

if you moved the machine around...... pull and reseat all hardware ( ram, etc. ) and recheck all connections.

 

 

 go into the system configuratiojn utility. under start up and services.......... uncheck all that NORTON BS>.. then  try to play.

 

 You should also stop any program from running auto updates.... from windows to apps.

[grenade252]

Now the back sound ports might be messed up. I was just watching a video and only one speaker is working, plugged it into the front ports on the case and they both work. Maybe my MOBO is bad? I'll try what you said though, starting with the cmos reset. Maybe I should just contact newegg about this MOBO, because either way I need my back sound ports working.