New build, freezing.

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Richaye

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Some of you may have seen my post earlier, On how I built my pc for the first time.

Fractal design r3
ASRock Z68 PROFESSIONAL GEN3
i7 2600k
COOLER MASTER Hyper 212 Plus
EVGA GTX 580
128 GB SSD
1tb HDD
CORSAIR Professional Series HX850 (CMPSU-850HX) 850W

Well everything went well, but I keep getting these random freezes.
At first I was playing TF2 and freezed so I re-booted, then I was watching a stream on hd at twitch.tv and froze again. All of that happened last night.

Now this morning when I turned on my it was all fine so I just put that aside, but all of sudden it happened again when playing the bf3 beta of full screen and on windowed mode.

My cpu temp was on 35, and my gpu was hitting around the 70's.
How can I fix this? thanks
 
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Try re-seating the RAM (in different slots as well) and making sure all of your drivers are up to date. If it persists try running memtest and making sure that your RAM timings/voltages/speeds are all correct in the BIOS.

I was getting some weird freezes when I first built my machine. It would happen at random times for no apparent reason. My motherboard had my RAM set at the wrong timings (they were defaulting too low) so I fixed that and also re-seated the RAM and haven't had a freeze since.
 
If you switch the slots be sure to still keep your memory so it's in dual channel, so for example move them from slots 1 and 3 to slots 2 and 4.
 
skidude said:
If you switch the slots be sure to still keep your memory so it's in dual channel, so for example move them from slots 1 and 3 to slots 2 and 4.
Click to expand...

So I tried switching them being dual channel, and still froze.

Do I get memtest and run it, then make sure that the ram timings/voltages/speeds are the same in the bios?

I need the match up the timings/voltages/speeds from memtest to bios?

Thanks

Oh I also notice my gpu usage was at 99%
 
You can look at the manufacturer's website at the model RAM you have any find out timings/voltages etc. from there. Memtest you download from here:

http://www.memtest.org/

And install on a flash drive, and boot from the flash drive into the program.
 
My ram voltage was at 1.590 and I set it to 1.500 and no more freezing.
Hopefully it stays like that, I did not see any other choices like to change the timings or speeds on the bios...?

Edit: It worked no more freezing thanks!
 
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