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Possible RAM or GPU failing?

TristanB121
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So i built my first budget gaming/workstation pc a couple of months back (Specs below). Since then I have had an issue where probably once or twice a day my pc freezes, mouse and keyboard become unresponsive and if a video is playing the video begins to play in slow motion and sound is distorted. The only solution being to restart my pc by pressing the restart button on the case.

 

I have tried reseating everything in the case as i initially thought it to be that the RAM may not be seated properly, tried completely wiping drivers and reinstalling, and have tried installing a fresh operating system on a new hard drive partition. All temps are reasonable too with both cpu and gpu reaching highs of only around 55 Celsius.

 

Im thinking it may be a hardware issue? Any advice? If any further information is required please ask. 

 

 

Build Specs are:  (all stock speeds)
CPU - amd fx 8350
CPU Cooler - Hyper 212 Evo
Graphics - MSI GTX 750Ti 
Ram - 2x Kingston Fury 4gb ddr3 
Motherboard - Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P
PSU - Corsair CX 500W

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Watch the load on the GPU, CPU, and RAM, while this happens. See if anything maxes out while it happens. 

Fine you want the PSU tier list? Have the PSU tier list: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/1116640-psu-tier-list-40-rev-103/

 

Stille (Desktop)

Ryzen 9 3900XT@4.5Ghz - Cryorig H7 Ultimate - 16GB Vengeance LPX 3000Mhz- MSI RTX 3080 Ti Ventus 3x OC - SanDisk Plus 480GB - Crucial MX500 500GB - Intel 660P 1TB SSD - (2x) WD Red 2TB - EVGA G3 650w - Corsair 760T

Evoo Gaming 15"
i7-9750H - 16GB DDR4 - GTX 1660Ti - 480GB SSD M.2 - 1TB 2.5" BX500 SSD 

VM + NAS Server (ProxMox 6.3)

1x Xeon E5-2690 v2  - 92GB ECC DDR3 - Quadro 4000 - Dell H310 HBA (Flashed with IT firmware) -500GB Crucial MX500 (Proxmox Host) Kingston 128GB SSD (FreeNAS dev/ID passthrough) - 8x4TB Toshiba N300 HDD

Toys: Ender 3 Pro, Oculus Rift CV1, Oculus Quest 2, about half a dozen raspberry Pis (2b to 4), Arduino Uno, Arduino Mega, Arduino nano (x3), Arduino nano pro, Atomic Pi. 

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Watch the load on the GPU, CPU, and RAM, while this happens. See if anything maxes out while it happens. 

 

Thanks for the reply, I have the task manager and HW Monitor open quite a lot and haven't noticed anything to link it to high loads etc :/ Seems to be random

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Thanks for the reply, I have the task manager and HW Monitor open quite a lot and haven't noticed anything to link it to high loads etc :/ Seems to be random

Are you running audio out of the videocard or from the motherboard?

Fine you want the PSU tier list? Have the PSU tier list: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/1116640-psu-tier-list-40-rev-103/

 

Stille (Desktop)

Ryzen 9 3900XT@4.5Ghz - Cryorig H7 Ultimate - 16GB Vengeance LPX 3000Mhz- MSI RTX 3080 Ti Ventus 3x OC - SanDisk Plus 480GB - Crucial MX500 500GB - Intel 660P 1TB SSD - (2x) WD Red 2TB - EVGA G3 650w - Corsair 760T

Evoo Gaming 15"
i7-9750H - 16GB DDR4 - GTX 1660Ti - 480GB SSD M.2 - 1TB 2.5" BX500 SSD 

VM + NAS Server (ProxMox 6.3)

1x Xeon E5-2690 v2  - 92GB ECC DDR3 - Quadro 4000 - Dell H310 HBA (Flashed with IT firmware) -500GB Crucial MX500 (Proxmox Host) Kingston 128GB SSD (FreeNAS dev/ID passthrough) - 8x4TB Toshiba N300 HDD

Toys: Ender 3 Pro, Oculus Rift CV1, Oculus Quest 2, about half a dozen raspberry Pis (2b to 4), Arduino Uno, Arduino Mega, Arduino nano (x3), Arduino nano pro, Atomic Pi. 

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Are you running audio out of the videocard or from the motherboard

 

Audio is coming from the motherboard using 2 stereo speakers plugged into the green output jack, But I am using a hdmi to vga converter for a second monitor? I dont see how but even though no sound is being transmitted could this be an issue?.

 

Im pretty sure that the issue still occurred without the hdmi converter being used though.

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