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So I was just browsing the web, nothing intensive,only a video uploading in the backround and watching another video, and all of a sudden a large portion of my pixels turned into random colors. The computer is the one listed below. It has nothing to do with temperatures, as I checked right after it happened. I also do not think it is the GPU as is only a few months old and the OC is a factory one. What could it be? Maybe the small OC on the CPU? Please respond. Also my screen looked similar to this, but not 100% of my image was random colored pixels.hh144802.CH05_Img04%28en-us,MSDN.10%29.p

 

 

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Still, try lowering the GPU overclock.

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It can be the:

  • Cable used for display (VGA/HDMI/DVI) - try replacing it, or try a different input.
  • Monitor - Use the tool in windows and take a screen shot, if it doesn't appear on the image it probably is the monitor, try using another one if you can.
  • GPU - take your GPU out and use the integrated graphics see if it still happens. - obviously if the problem goes away then it is the GPU. 
  • MoBo- try using different PCI-E slots the one you are using might have gone bad because of dust or something dumb.

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It can be the:

  • Cable used for display (VGA/HDMI/DVI) - try replacing it, or try a different input.
  • Monitor - Use the tool in windows and take a screen shot, if it doesn't appear on the image it probably is the monitor, try using another one if you can.
  • GPU - take your GPU out and use the integrated graphics see if it still happens. - obviously if the problem goes away then it is the GPU. 
  • MoBo- try using different PCI-E slots the one you are using might have gone bad because of dust or something dumb.

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The pixels are gone now, it only lasted from 5-15 seconds. Also I cleaned my motherboard a week or two ago. I will check to cable and GPU tomorrow.

 

 

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The pixels are gone now, it only lasted from 5-15 seconds. Also I cleaned my motherboard a week or two ago. I will check to cable and GPU tomorrow.

Sounds like the cable or monitor if it lasted that long. Might just be a random surge or something. You may never see it again.

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It is only a 25Mhz boost...

Doesn't matter how much of a boost it is. The fact is that whatever speed it's running at, it's un-stable so dial down the mhz and run furmark or something

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Sounds like the cable or monitor if it lasted that long. Might just be a random surge or something. You may never see it again.

Also every now and then my computer randomly freezes for about a second and restarts randomly. This has happened multiple times over a length of time. Could it have anything to do with the fact that my CPU is not very good at overclocking.(Even with my decent cooler the Asus auto-tune feature could only get it from 2.9 to 2.99 or 3 Ghz.)

 

 

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Also every now and then my computer randomly freezes for about a second and restarts randomly. This has happened multiple times over a length of time. Could it have anything to do with the fact that my CPU is not very good at overclocking.(Even with my decent cooler the Asus auto-tune feature could only get it from 2.9 to 2.99 or 3 Ghz.)

It can always be the CPU. But that sounds like faulty RAM or RAM slots. Try playing around with your RAM configuration and run memtest86 and see if you get any memory initialization errors. 

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It can always be the CPU. But that sounds like faulty RAM or RAM slots. Try playing around with your RAM configuration and run memtest86 and see if you get any memory initialization errors. 

I would test the RAM but I did that about a month ago when my computer was restarting. I tested all different spots, different sticks since I have four. It took a long time and each one seemed to not have a problem. I already spent a long time testing RAM so I would not like to do it again.

 

 

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I would test the RAM but I did that about a month ago when my computer was restarting. I tested all different spots, different sticks since I have four. It took a long time and each one seemed to not have a problem. I already spent a long time testing RAM so I would not like to do it again.

There are software out there that you can run and when your PC crashes is writes up a report, sort of like a black box on planes. I can't seem to remember the one I used on my friend's PC but Google crash reporting software and look around. 

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The two things I am thinking of are it is maybe the CPU or the PSU. The CPU is overclocked with the Asus auto-tune and even with the good cooling it could barely get around 3 Ghz. A mention the PSU because it is a cheap one and it can run with a high load due to the 7970.  Is it possible to be either one of these?

 

 

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There are software out there that you can run and when your PC crashes is writes up a report, sort of like a black box on planes. I can't seem to remember the one I used on my friend's PC but Google crash reporting software and look around. 

Today I noticed my computer was abnormally loud, which only happens when my CPU is hot because I made a profile for it in Fan Xpert. So used an old gadget that shows CPU and RAM usage and the CPU is processing a lot when only doing small things. So would that be the CPU malfunctioning or the Mobo giving a false reading?

 

 

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