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Hello, people. On Saturday I gave a friend of mine my single 8GB stick of ram because for some reason his motherboard wouldn't take both his sticks. We tested out his RAM on my computer and it worked fine, I later on installed my R9 Fury Nitro which I bought. Ever since, there have been complete system freezes when I play games that will not go away over time. It happened 2 times already today, 2 times yesterday and 1 time on Sunday. Could it be because of my graphics card or is my friend's ram the culprit? I have already notified him that we will switch RAM again because he told me that if I saw any defects he wanted them back to RMA them or some shit.

 

I have a Fury Nitro and an FX 8320E. Screw my life?

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4 minutes ago, Phoenix721 said:

Hello, people. On Saturday I gave a friend of mine my single 8GB stick of ram because for some reason his motherboard wouldn't take both his sticks. We tested out his RAM on my computer and it worked fine, I later on installed my R9 Fury Nitro which I bought. Ever since, there have been complete system freezes when I play games that will not go away over time. It happened 2 times already today, 2 times yesterday and 1 time on Sunday. Could it be because of my graphics card or is my friend's ram the culprit? I have already notified him that we will switch RAM again because he told me that if I saw any defects he wanted them back to RMA them or some shit.

 

Run memtest.

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Potentially. Run various stress tests to determine whether or not the GPU is unstable.

It's not that there are artifacts, the system just completely freezes (in 1 or 2 of those I was able to get some mouse movement but nothing else)
 

I have a Fury Nitro and an FX 8320E. Screw my life?

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It's not that there are artifacts, the system just completely freezes (in 1 or 2 of those I was able to get some mouse movement but nothing else)
 

What happens exactly before it does that? Is it doing anything stressful? Is it doing it right when the PC boots?

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1 minute ago, JoeyDM said:

Potentially. Run various stress tests to determine whether or not the GPU is unstable.

Nothing. It just craps out at random moments. No artifacts of any kind whatsoever.

I have a Fury Nitro and an FX 8320E. Screw my life?

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1 minute ago, JoeyDM said:

Is there another GPU that could be put in his rig for a bit to test? Doesn't have to be a good one.

Yes, but since it happens at completely random moments with no pattern it might be hard to repeat it. I will try, however. I'll run furmark for now a few times and see what comes of that.

I have a Fury Nitro and an FX 8320E. Screw my life?

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1 minute ago, JoeyDM said:

Honestly it sounds more like his motherboard.

I just hope it isn't my graphics card since I didn't buy it from my country and RMAing back to that store will be a bitch.

I have a Fury Nitro and an FX 8320E. Screw my life?

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4 minutes ago, JoeyDM said:

Honestly it sounds more like his motherboard. I'd still test everything else though.

What do you mean? Also, he did think his motherboard was his initial problem with the RAM, he tried to RMA it but the company said that there was nothing wrong with it.

I have a Fury Nitro and an FX 8320E. Screw my life?

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1 hour ago, Phoenix721 said:

What do you mean? Also, he did think his motherboard was his initial problem with the RAM, he tried to RMA it but the company said that there was nothing wrong with it.

They aren't always thorough and usually just accept error codes from their diagnostic as proof one way or the other. The mobo is the primary device that they share.

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11 minutes ago, JoeyDM said:

They aren't always thorough and usually just accept error codes from their diagnostic as proof one way or the other. The mobo is the primary device that they share.

On a side note, I run furmark for ~30 minutes and the GPU didn't crash... That's a good sign, right?

I have a Fury Nitro and an FX 8320E. Screw my life?

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