IGP is the Intel HD2500 built onto your CPU.
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I think I'm pretty much tapped out on other things to suggest. Interested to hear how it goes with your friend's GPU.
* By faster memtest.. i meant not even running it. I meant take out a stick test the game, swap test the game. Sorry I wasn't more clear. It would be twice as slow doing that with memtest86.
Hello, I just ran the FurMark Torture Test for 30 minutes 1920 x 1080 with 8MSAA and ran into no problems. My maximum temp was 70 degrees Celsius (highest temp I've ever gotten) and an avg. FPS of 34. I will edit this post with how I do in different benchmarks as I do them.
Unigine Valley: Max setting ran just fine several times consecutively with a max temp of 60 degrees Celsius
FurMark: Ran 1920 x 1080 with 8xMSAA max temp of 70 degrees Celsius
OCCT: I ran OCCT just fine for 30 minutes with 7 shader complexity and a resolution of 1920 x 1080. I got a max of 52 degrees Celsius and I didn't go below 60 FPS. I almost think I missed some more intense graphic settings
Unigine Heaven: I maxed out all the setting I could find (with the exception of my 1920 x 1080 resolution) and I even turned the tessellation sliders all the way to the right (I dont even know if I should do that, but I could a big drop in performance so why not stress my GPU even more?) and the FPS was pretty horrendous, staying mostly in the 20's, and my max temp was 70 degrees Celsius. I had no problems whatsoever.
I wont do any more benchmark testing because I feel very confident that my BSOD is not a result of a faulty GPU, but I will move on to testing each of my 4gb RAM sticks just to try and see if they may be to blame. If the RAM is not faulty, I will move on to my old GTX 660 OC SLI configuration to see of I still get BSOD's. Cheers for now everyone
Edit: is it possible my weak CPU is causing the crashes? I'm planning an upgrade soon
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Edit: is it possible my weak CPU is causing the crashes? I'm planning an upgrade soon
It's remotely possible the CPU is causing it.. but not because it's "weak"..
It likely isn't.. but if you want me take a wild guess on why it could possible be the CPU... A failure in the ALU, only happens when a certain instruction is called. I don't see the point in taking wild guesses honestly, narrowing it down by swapping in/out components seems more fruitful.
I think I've only ever warrantied one CPU (IGP failure)... but dozens of mobos in the last few years. We typically don't have discrete GPUs in our setting.
Order of things I think it would be given the error code:
1) GPU GPU GPU, very strongly GPU
2) PSU (when I seen the name Rosewill, you better believe it was the first thing I researched.. it has overall high marks though)
3) Motherboard / RAM
4) CPU I guess
Okay thank you. I was thinking the GPU as well, but the benchmarks don't lie. I'm positive that my GPU isn't dying, and I personally think the next likely candidate is the PSU or a problem with the game/nvidia if anything. I believe I read somewhere that the PSU is often the first thing to fail in a PC, so it may well be what is causing this. Shame I dont have an extra PSU lying around. I also noticed that Nvidia released some new drivers, so I will try those as always, even thought they are for GTA V. Thank you again for your help.
EDIT: I suppose the motherboard could also have faulty PCI slots or something
