Hello guys,
I'm gonna get straight to the point. I have a custom rig I bought roughly a year ago that had been built for two weeks. It's still a pretty great build here are the specs (I'm not very great with technical stuff but I can get by):
Windows 7 Home Premium
AMD FX-4170 Quad Core Processor
RAM: AMD AE38G1339U2 16GB DDR3
PSU: Antec HCG-620M
Motherboard: Gigabyte 970A-D3
GPU: XFX Radeon Hd 7970
HDD: WDC WD10EARX-00N0YB0 ATA 1TB
SSD: OCZ-AGILITY4 ATA 120GB
So I mainly produce music on this rig and if my session gets really, really full sometimes the system will just freeze and I have nothing to do but a hard reset. I've had to hard reset hundreds of times at this point (this has been going on for months) but the system works BEAUTIFULLY most of the time.
Oddly enough, there have been times where it crashes with just the browser open but that is very rare. I don't understand why this thing is crashing. I have cleaned all the fans, but the side case fan (It's an Enermax Ostrog case) is unplugged. This is where I may have an issue with overheating during stressful times on the CPU? Is that correct?
The fan has male/female molex connectors coming out but I don't have anything to connect those to directly without an adapter in my rig I don't think. The thing is, I bought this a while ago with my friend and he helped me set it all up, he had the fan going before but had to unplug it one time, and I never knew how to get it going again. Pretty embarassing. Anyway!
I noticed the sysfan1 small 4 pin connection and I am wondering if I just need to purchase a molex to small 4 pin adapter for the fan to work? Then hopefully some of my issue will be resolved? Any advice on that would be very appreciated!
I am not sure if my processor is overclocked either. It very well may not be, I have CPU-Z and HWMonitor but don't really know how to use them. If it was done it may have been done in the BIOS but I really have no way of knowing some of this stuff and my buddy sort of abandoned me so he can't help me anymore.
Sorry for my lack of coherency and structure but let me know what other info I can give to you because I literally can't even play battlefield 4 for more than 10 mins on my rig, and I can't have massive sessions going on in Cubase or Pro tools anymore.
I'm gonna get straight to the point. I have a custom rig I bought roughly a year ago that had been built for two weeks. It's still a pretty great build here are the specs (I'm not very great with technical stuff but I can get by):
Windows 7 Home Premium
AMD FX-4170 Quad Core Processor
RAM: AMD AE38G1339U2 16GB DDR3
PSU: Antec HCG-620M
Motherboard: Gigabyte 970A-D3
GPU: XFX Radeon Hd 7970
HDD: WDC WD10EARX-00N0YB0 ATA 1TB
SSD: OCZ-AGILITY4 ATA 120GB
So I mainly produce music on this rig and if my session gets really, really full sometimes the system will just freeze and I have nothing to do but a hard reset. I've had to hard reset hundreds of times at this point (this has been going on for months) but the system works BEAUTIFULLY most of the time.
Oddly enough, there have been times where it crashes with just the browser open but that is very rare. I don't understand why this thing is crashing. I have cleaned all the fans, but the side case fan (It's an Enermax Ostrog case) is unplugged. This is where I may have an issue with overheating during stressful times on the CPU? Is that correct?
The fan has male/female molex connectors coming out but I don't have anything to connect those to directly without an adapter in my rig I don't think. The thing is, I bought this a while ago with my friend and he helped me set it all up, he had the fan going before but had to unplug it one time, and I never knew how to get it going again. Pretty embarassing. Anyway!
I noticed the sysfan1 small 4 pin connection and I am wondering if I just need to purchase a molex to small 4 pin adapter for the fan to work? Then hopefully some of my issue will be resolved? Any advice on that would be very appreciated!
I am not sure if my processor is overclocked either. It very well may not be, I have CPU-Z and HWMonitor but don't really know how to use them. If it was done it may have been done in the BIOS but I really have no way of knowing some of this stuff and my buddy sort of abandoned me so he can't help me anymore.
Sorry for my lack of coherency and structure but let me know what other info I can give to you because I literally can't even play battlefield 4 for more than 10 mins on my rig, and I can't have massive sessions going on in Cubase or Pro tools anymore.