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I'm having a weird display issue since I built my new computer.
EDIT : It happens randomly but mostly when the vid card is stressed. It can last less than a second, sometimes as long as 45 minutes. Turning the monitor off and then back on sometimes help. In some cases it starts flickering somewhat fast (5-10 Hz) at various intensity and it can keep doing that for an hour. Switching the monitor from 1 vid card port to another sometimes help (reset the issue for a few minutes) but it's never a complete fix.
Image of the issue : http://imageshack.us/f/846/issue.jpg/
(it's too big to display directly in this forum)
BTW, sorry for the poor quality, had to use my cellphone camera.
EDIT: I'm not using Virtu or the iGPU
At first I suspected the video cards so I tried pretty much everything : connecting to a different port in both cards, swapping the cards, using only 1 card, etc. but the problem always came back. I also tried it on my older computer and I can't reproduce the problem. Rig details are below.
I swapped the 570s from #1 with the 280s from #2. Still no problem with rig #2 and problems with rig #1. This kinda rules out the video cards and the monitor because the problem would be on both systems.
In both cases, the computer has been tested and is considered stable with Prime95, superpi, memtest, intel burn test, 3dmark 11 (for the 570s), 3dmark vantage (for the 280s). Temperatures and voltages were monitored during all tests except memtest and were well within specs.
The issue has been seen in :
Battlefield 3, Dragon age 2, Mass Effect 2, Starcraft 2, Fallout New Vegas, Sword of the Stars 1 & 2 and even windows while it's idle.
For all intents and purposes the softwares on both machines are identical (same drivers (latest), fresh windows install except the various games, etc.)
This leaves 3 major differences between the 2 kits : CPU, mobo and RAM. As I said before, both systems were fully tested and are stable.
What am I missing here? How can I fix this?
Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated
Thanks,
Kerdal
Rig #1 (with the problem)
MOBO: ASRock Z68 gen3 extreme7 (tested and seen with bios 1.0, 1.21, 1.30)
CPU : Intel Core i7 2600k (stock and oc to 4-4.4GHz)
CPU Cooler : Corsair H80 sealed loop water cooling kit
RAM : 4x4GB Corsair Vengeance 1600Mhz class 8
Vid card : 2x EVGA GTX 570 Superclocked
PSU : Corsair HX1000
ODD : Blu-ray drive LITE-On iHOS104-08
HDD :
1x WD Velociraptor 10000RPM 600GB
2x WD Black 2TB WD2002FAEX
SSD :
1x OCZ Vertex 3 240GB MAX IOPS (boot drive)
1x Patriot Pyro 120GB (40gb used as cache (SRT) for Velociraptor, 60GB usable, not setup yet)
1x OCZ Vertex 120GB
Monitor : DELL WFP3007 30" 2560x1600
Keyboard : Logitech G510
Mouse : Razer Lachesis
Case : Fractal Design Define XL with Noctua fans everywhere
Rig #2
MOBO: EVGA 790i FTW
CPU : Intel Core2Quad Q9550 (OC'ed to 3.6GHz)
CPU Cooler : Noctua Heatsink with fan (don't remember the exact model, doesn't matter)
RAM : 2x2GB Patriot PVS34G1333LLKN 1333Mhz class 7 (1.8V)
Vid card : 2x EVGA GTX 280 Superclocked
PSU : Corsair TX750
ODD : Blu-ray drive LITE-On iHOS104-08
HDD :
2x WD Black 1TB WD1001FAL
1x Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB
SSD :
1x Intel X25-M 120GB
Monitor : DELL WFP3007 30" 2560x1600
Keyboard : Logitech G510
Mouse : Razer Lachesis
Case : Coolermaster Cosmos S with Noctua fans everywhere
I'm having a weird display issue since I built my new computer.
EDIT : It happens randomly but mostly when the vid card is stressed. It can last less than a second, sometimes as long as 45 minutes. Turning the monitor off and then back on sometimes help. In some cases it starts flickering somewhat fast (5-10 Hz) at various intensity and it can keep doing that for an hour. Switching the monitor from 1 vid card port to another sometimes help (reset the issue for a few minutes) but it's never a complete fix.
Image of the issue : http://imageshack.us/f/846/issue.jpg/
(it's too big to display directly in this forum)
BTW, sorry for the poor quality, had to use my cellphone camera.
EDIT: I'm not using Virtu or the iGPU
At first I suspected the video cards so I tried pretty much everything : connecting to a different port in both cards, swapping the cards, using only 1 card, etc. but the problem always came back. I also tried it on my older computer and I can't reproduce the problem. Rig details are below.
I swapped the 570s from #1 with the 280s from #2. Still no problem with rig #2 and problems with rig #1. This kinda rules out the video cards and the monitor because the problem would be on both systems.
In both cases, the computer has been tested and is considered stable with Prime95, superpi, memtest, intel burn test, 3dmark 11 (for the 570s), 3dmark vantage (for the 280s). Temperatures and voltages were monitored during all tests except memtest and were well within specs.
The issue has been seen in :
Battlefield 3, Dragon age 2, Mass Effect 2, Starcraft 2, Fallout New Vegas, Sword of the Stars 1 & 2 and even windows while it's idle.
For all intents and purposes the softwares on both machines are identical (same drivers (latest), fresh windows install except the various games, etc.)
This leaves 3 major differences between the 2 kits : CPU, mobo and RAM. As I said before, both systems were fully tested and are stable.
What am I missing here? How can I fix this?
Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated
Thanks,
Kerdal
Rig #1 (with the problem)
MOBO: ASRock Z68 gen3 extreme7 (tested and seen with bios 1.0, 1.21, 1.30)
CPU : Intel Core i7 2600k (stock and oc to 4-4.4GHz)
CPU Cooler : Corsair H80 sealed loop water cooling kit
RAM : 4x4GB Corsair Vengeance 1600Mhz class 8
Vid card : 2x EVGA GTX 570 Superclocked
PSU : Corsair HX1000
ODD : Blu-ray drive LITE-On iHOS104-08
HDD :
1x WD Velociraptor 10000RPM 600GB
2x WD Black 2TB WD2002FAEX
SSD :
1x OCZ Vertex 3 240GB MAX IOPS (boot drive)
1x Patriot Pyro 120GB (40gb used as cache (SRT) for Velociraptor, 60GB usable, not setup yet)
1x OCZ Vertex 120GB
Monitor : DELL WFP3007 30" 2560x1600
Keyboard : Logitech G510
Mouse : Razer Lachesis
Case : Fractal Design Define XL with Noctua fans everywhere
Rig #2
MOBO: EVGA 790i FTW
CPU : Intel Core2Quad Q9550 (OC'ed to 3.6GHz)
CPU Cooler : Noctua Heatsink with fan (don't remember the exact model, doesn't matter)
RAM : 2x2GB Patriot PVS34G1333LLKN 1333Mhz class 7 (1.8V)
Vid card : 2x EVGA GTX 280 Superclocked
PSU : Corsair TX750
ODD : Blu-ray drive LITE-On iHOS104-08
HDD :
2x WD Black 1TB WD1001FAL
1x Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB
SSD :
1x Intel X25-M 120GB
Monitor : DELL WFP3007 30" 2560x1600
Keyboard : Logitech G510
Mouse : Razer Lachesis
Case : Coolermaster Cosmos S with Noctua fans everywhere
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