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System Name | Cool Runnings Mark 2 |
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Processor | i7 4770k No OC |
Motherboard | MSI Z87 MPower |
Cooling | Noctua NH-D14 |
Memory | GSkill TridentX 2400MHz 32GB |
Video Card(s) | MSI GTX 1070 Ti Duke, EVGA GTX 780 AC+ |
Storage | Crucial MX500 1TB SSD, 3 more HDDs |
Display(s) | 2x MSI 32" 2560 x 1440 144Hz Optix MAG321CQR, Acer G276HLDbd Black 27" 6ms |
Case | Corsair 600t |
Power Supply | Corsair HX850 |
Mouse | Razer DeathAdder |
Keyboard | Steelseries Merc Stealth |
Software | Win10 Pro 64-bit |
Core i7 920 will work in single, or dual or triple channel mode depending on the memory arrangement. You don't "need" three sticks to run X58.
you dont need 3 sticks(tripple channel) but i do remember reading that i7/x58 run much slower in single and dual channel than boards designed for running in single or dual, because it was designed for tripple
Try booting with just one stick of ram in slot 1. I suspect you may have a dead stick of ram.
Not sure if it will help much but you could give Memtest86 a try. I know you have already tried your RAM in different slots but I think it is worth doing for a tester,
1. To see if your RAM is ok
2. To see if your pc crashes.
Also if it is temperature related and you can boot into your BIOS, I am presuming you can see your temperatures in your BIOS? if so, then on stock cooling your CPU temperature should be around 40-50 degrees. I am unsure what your northbridge should be at. But I would of thought that you could see if it was over heating by looking at the idle temperatures in the BIOS.
definitely to what conflict says and make a memtest floppy, i've found it to be an indespensible(read awesome) program
as for the temperature...he means celsius not Fahraenheit
so the crashes speed up as the computer is on for longer?
sounds temperature related....
it does indeed, it appears to crash, the few times I've watched it in BIOS, at 120F, but I don't know if thats a coincidence or not, Should I invest in liquid cooling? I have the fan that came on the processor, two side panel fans, a top fan and a larger back fan.
At stock it shouldt crash... did you check the mouning on the CPU heatsink...? Maybe its not making contact?
Hmm, It looks like it is, I took the heatsink off and put it back on the gunk from the bottom of the fan is now on the top of the proc, so that should mean they're making contact (I think) but .. I dunno
if there is gunk then they are...
have you tried running the motherboard outside of the case?
like on top of the box that it came in... also with no fans plugged into it... maybe the mounting is causing something to short out a component. That happened to me with a waterblock backplate mount, caused crashing after post (not to mention the eventual smell of burned PCB as I kept turning it on and off lol)
as for these other quotes, i have found that just because the heatsink/cpu is making contact, it does not mean that the heatsink it mounted/seated properly. but, as long as the temperature is not getting to 80-85C+(176F-185F) the board probably wont care what the temp is. the 100-109F i saw u post ealier is perfectly fine.