Good morning boys and girls!
First post on this great forum. Been a long time reader and I watch every video Tom uploads to the YouTube channel.
I bought the Gigabyte Sniper M5 motherboard 3 weeks ago and have been having some issues I have not been able to resolve. I'm pretty tech savvy when it comes to parts and computers and this is the 8th system I've built for me personally over the past decade or so. Countless others for friends and relatives over the years.
It's a pretty nice rig and has been running now for a few weeks as close to stock as I can imagine, haven't taken the time to do any serious overclocks on it yet.
Specs;
So the problem :
After the system has been running for a 18-24 hours with regular use and idle time it starts to stutter every second or so. It's the best word for it. The mouse jumps around if it's being moved when the stutter occurs and audio is distorted with a crackling sound every second as well. Games show the same stutter. It got so bad after the system being on for 3 days that I got a bluescreen. It seems to get worse the longer the system is power on. Restarting the system resolves the issue.
I noticed with CPU-Z that the Core voltage jumped to about 1.040 every time the stutter would happen, from the energy saving lower voltage. So I went into the BIOS and set the Vcore manually to 1.030 and then later to 1.040. That did not fix the issue. I then noticed the stutters were less prominent but still very much there. I then noticed that the CPU was jumping to 3.4GHZ, when idle, with every stutter and then dropping again to lower clock speeds. I then went into the BIOS, updated it to the newst version, and set the CPU to 34 multiplier at 100mhz bus speed. Again, that did not fix the issue. I've also set the memory to 1600mhz, as rated, from the 1333mhz the BIOS set it at. It had no affect on the issue as well.
I have tried to fiddle around with some of the settings and disable some energy saving settings in the BIOS without avail. I've ran memtest of both sticks of RAM and seperate for several passes each. I've ran OCCT for 2 hours+ on every setting I've tried and played several different games for hours without issue, if the system has been recently restarted.
I was just wondering if you guys had any ideas or thoughts on this.
On a side note the Killer NIC E2201 thats built into the motherboard does not want to play ball. It constantly drops connections and the adapter disables and enables itself randomly during file transfers. I have a second PC running Windows Home Server 2011 that I use for file storage and streaming and any time I transfer files from it to my main rig the transfer speed would fluctuate from 100mb - 0mb several times for 10GB+ files and eventually fail and it would disable. I ended up getting a PCIex Intel NIC which has been running flawlessly for the past few days.
If you guys need any further info please let me know and I will get that sorted.
CPU-Z :
Pictuer of the rig :
Video to demonstrate the stutter with audio :
Sorry for the video quality, it's a phone jammed into the earcup of a Sennheiser HD555 headset.
Thanks! :lol:
Trausti
First post on this great forum. Been a long time reader and I watch every video Tom uploads to the YouTube channel.
I bought the Gigabyte Sniper M5 motherboard 3 weeks ago and have been having some issues I have not been able to resolve. I'm pretty tech savvy when it comes to parts and computers and this is the 8th system I've built for me personally over the past decade or so. Countless others for friends and relatives over the years.
It's a pretty nice rig and has been running now for a few weeks as close to stock as I can imagine, haven't taken the time to do any serious overclocks on it yet.
Specs;
- Gigabyte Sniper M5 mATX, BIOS F7 (newest)
- Intel 4670k at stock 3.4ghz (100mhz x 34, 1.040v)
- Corsair 8gb Vengeance 1600mhz
- Samsung EVO 500GB
- MSI GTX 670 Twin Frozr III
- Corsair AX760 + individually braided cables (non-i version)
- Corsair H100 with stock fans
- Couple of Corsair AF120 and AF140 fans in there for good measure.
- All wrapped in a Corsair 350D
- Windows 8 Pro, with all latest updates
So the problem :
After the system has been running for a 18-24 hours with regular use and idle time it starts to stutter every second or so. It's the best word for it. The mouse jumps around if it's being moved when the stutter occurs and audio is distorted with a crackling sound every second as well. Games show the same stutter. It got so bad after the system being on for 3 days that I got a bluescreen. It seems to get worse the longer the system is power on. Restarting the system resolves the issue.
I noticed with CPU-Z that the Core voltage jumped to about 1.040 every time the stutter would happen, from the energy saving lower voltage. So I went into the BIOS and set the Vcore manually to 1.030 and then later to 1.040. That did not fix the issue. I then noticed the stutters were less prominent but still very much there. I then noticed that the CPU was jumping to 3.4GHZ, when idle, with every stutter and then dropping again to lower clock speeds. I then went into the BIOS, updated it to the newst version, and set the CPU to 34 multiplier at 100mhz bus speed. Again, that did not fix the issue. I've also set the memory to 1600mhz, as rated, from the 1333mhz the BIOS set it at. It had no affect on the issue as well.
I have tried to fiddle around with some of the settings and disable some energy saving settings in the BIOS without avail. I've ran memtest of both sticks of RAM and seperate for several passes each. I've ran OCCT for 2 hours+ on every setting I've tried and played several different games for hours without issue, if the system has been recently restarted.
I was just wondering if you guys had any ideas or thoughts on this.
On a side note the Killer NIC E2201 thats built into the motherboard does not want to play ball. It constantly drops connections and the adapter disables and enables itself randomly during file transfers. I have a second PC running Windows Home Server 2011 that I use for file storage and streaming and any time I transfer files from it to my main rig the transfer speed would fluctuate from 100mb - 0mb several times for 10GB+ files and eventually fail and it would disable. I ended up getting a PCIex Intel NIC which has been running flawlessly for the past few days.
If you guys need any further info please let me know and I will get that sorted.
CPU-Z :
Pictuer of the rig :
Video to demonstrate the stutter with audio :
Sorry for the video quality, it's a phone jammed into the earcup of a Sennheiser HD555 headset.
Thanks! :lol:
Trausti
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