Computer Guru's - display issues

[ginge191]

Sounds like memory to me, but could be power related -

http://www.memtest.org/download/5.01/mem...taller.zip

Try flashing that to a USB drive and let it run that for an hour or so... If it IS dodgy memory, I'd expect to see it fall over in the first 10 minutes...

Do you get any display "artefacts" - usually signified by little coloured dots in places on the image when playing games? This is indicative of a possibly faulty graphics card or power supply to the graphics card, it's actually the GPU having errors in it's output to the frame buffer when under load, happens a lot especially when overclocking lol...

I would say you're on the limit for that PSU - that GPU will happily pull 270W or so under load - then I'd say probably another 80W for CPU & Power Regulation, 40W for Mainboard and DIMMs, 20-30 or so watts here and there for the HDD and other bits and bobs... That's over 400W right there, it'll be a good quality PSU for sure, but you could be suffering from vdrop under load if it's a bad example.

i've had failing components before and has no tell tell signs of anything at all. No dodgy linear signs, spots, specks, nothing
Will give that a go; thanks, will report back soon

Thanks xxx