Brand new 5960x stuttering in games!!??? Uhh??

[radeson]

I just put a new system together last friday night. Things went pretty well, it posted and booted the first time. I think everything went normally at least. the first time i turned it on it powered up and immediately shut itself down. I was scared shitless!! But it started immediately back up instantly. It did this about three times before it properly posted and i was able to enter bios. I proceeded to load the 2800mhz XMP profile for my corsair dominator ram. Everything was fine. I ram prime for like an hour small fft's no temps over 50-55.

I then tried a mild OC. ( i felt the itch like i had to see, just had to see how far this beast would go) Anyways, sometimes it wouldn't post and it would shut itself down, then it would go to the post screen with the "overclock failed press f1 to enter setup" msg.

Long story short, I'm definitely a noob when it comes to overclocking. I did manage to get number 88 on the top 100 hall of fame for "fire-strike" (3dmark), and number 27 on "skydiver". This makes me think that I must have done something right.... LOL I hope I didnt fry my chip or something!!!???

I turned down the O.C. after trying to run a few games at that level. It loads into most games fine, but when I'm in it skips a frame every once in awhile, like every 10-15 secs. Ive tried crysis 3; Advanced warfare; Hit man Absolution; and a few others. They are all putting out 100+ fps for ther most part. But sometimes it will freeze up for a second or two. I just don't get it. I've been through Bios a few time trying to see if I have things really out of wack. I also tried to run default settings to no avail

So I thought it might be a GPU scaling issue or some thing.... I tried switching off 1; 2; and then 3 cards, eventually just running one card solo. I'm still having the same random stutter. Its pissing me off!!! I shelled out a lot of cash for this computer so that hopefully I wouldn't have to deal with things like this.

Someone please give me some sound advice!!! I need help again oh people of the great anandtech!!! LOL HELP

 

[GOLI@TH]

Nice rig.. :thumbsup:

Have you ever tried switch to several different driver version ?
And check these drivers:
- Graphics drivers (try betas and non-betas)
- Intel mainboard drivers (Raid, chipset, SATA 3 chip if using non-intel, and so on).

 

[RaistlinZ]

I'd go with GOLI@TH's suggestion. Try different BIOS with one card first. Do you have a random Nvidia card to test with as well by chance?

 

[radeson]

I dont.... but I really want to upgrade to nvidia.

 

[radeson]

also ive nver flashed Bios onto cards before.... any advice??

 

[Techhog]

Did you consider that maybe the one card you never took out has an issue?

 

[sandorski]

I suspect it's not Videocard related at all. I would monitor for any Services or Apps spiking in activity in a similar pattern. Not sure exactly how best to do that, but this kind of issue has existed forever and with all kinds of hardware configurations.

 

[escrow4]

You have 4 GPUs. There is a very good chance you will have issues in every game. Engines just don't scale with 4 cards. Crossfire often works well, but that is about it.

 

[GOLI@TH]

So I thought it might be a GPU scaling issue or some thing.... I tried switching off 1; 2; and then 3 cards, eventually just running one card solo. I'm still having the same random stutter. Its pissing me off!!! I shelled out a lot of cash for this computer so that hopefully I wouldn't have to deal with things like this.

You have 4 GPUs. There is a very good chance you will have issues in every game. Engines just don't scale with 4 cards. Crossfire often works well, but that is about it.

He already tried running 1 card only and still stuttering.

I don't know whether this will working or not.
Perhaps you should try with only 1 SSD (no RAID setup for a moment) and single GPU. Start from there.

My hunch says your stuttering caused by RAID and/or Catalyst driver; somehow not runs smoothly.

 

[Ramses]

I've seen hardware monitoring software cause that before more than a few times. You probably already did this but do as much of a clean boot as you can and try (with one card). No antivirus, no gpu/cpu monitor, no fan monitor, nothing not required. And especially not all that Asus software they provide.

 

[mindbomb]

try turning off c states and see if that helps.

 

[radeson]

I would try that but now I can't even boot into windows on my raid 0 read this please:

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2420346

 

[Carfax83]

Update motherboard BIOS to the latest if you haven't done so already. Then choose the default optimized or performance option. For trouble shooting purposes you definitely need everything to be at stock.

After doing that, turn off your C states and in the Windows power options, make sure it's set to performance..

Do all that and then get back with us..

 

[Carfax83]

I would try that but now I can't even boot into windows on my raid 0 read this please:

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2420346

Probably because you accidentally disabled RAID..

 

[Shivansps]

You know what? it could be very well be caused by the raid 0, Raid 0 could be tricky as if any of the SSD does not work PERFECTLY, or for wharever reason one is slower than the other one you are gona have these kind of problems.

You dont have another HDD so you can set up a temporary test system whiout using raid and those disks?

 

[tortillasoup]

I had this exact same problem with a Radeon 9800 pro back in 2004. Lots of people tried to explain away that this problem was normal even though I intuitively knew better as I was using a Radeon 7200 prior to upgrading and it did not have the stuttering issue. Went to the store, swapped out the card, no more problem.


However OP, you should be able to install each of the GPUs and test them individually. If this issue persists on all 4 GPUs installed separately and tested separately, then obviously the problem is elsewhere like what people have been mentioning here... I'm curious if you have a power supply issue. Might try swapping that.

 

[GOLI@TH]

I would try that but now I can't even boot into windows on my raid 0 read this please:

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2420346

Whoa, new problem now..D:

I think you should dismantle you system and start from a basic setup (no RAID and CF), no OC just stock clock. Start from there. Good luck. :thumbsup:

 

[Jacky60]

I assume you have frame pacing checked in CCC? I have had four AMD GPUs in two rigs and haven't had issues in any games.
I wouldn't go flashing bios but would look for other issues. I agree with Goliath, take rig apart, undo your RAID and start again with one GPU.