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Faulty xeon x3440?

idata
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Hi!

my spec (bought 3 months ago):

Intel XEON X3440

 

DFI LanParty DK P55-T3eH9 LGA1156

 

Galaxy GeForce GTS250 1GB DDR3/256b D/H LP

 

4 x DDR3 Goodram 2GB PC1333 CL9

 

OCZ Stealthxstream 2 500W

 

4 x Samsung 500GB HD502HJ SATA II 16MB (RAID 10)

Windows 7 64bit

Prime95 shows an error after few seconds of tests (not always, somtimes a can ran a test for 20 min and no error).

During this test my CPU warms up to about 85C! (box heatsink came with CPU - checked, put new thermal paste - everything ok)

From time to time i have some software (Photoshop, Sculptris, Blender, Mental Ray) crashes (always Exception code 0x00000005).

Tested RAM with Memtest86, booted my system with each one of them seperatly - no problem.

I have my drivers up to date, bios as well.

Reinstalled Windows a few times.

Beside all that it runs quite well. (maybe it feels a little too slow for that spec)

Does that point to a CPU issue?

Thank you in advance!

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idata
Employee
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Hello,

The cpu is not on the validated and test cpu support for this board. Please check with the technical support site from DFI/

http://www.dfi.com.tw/portal/CM/cmproduct/XX_cmproddetail/XX_WbProdsWindow?action=e&windowstate=normal&mode=view http://www.dfi.com.tw/portal/CM/cmproduct/XX_cmproddetail/XX_WbProdsWindow?action=e&windowstate=normal&mode=view

All the best,

Kind Regards,

Aryan.

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idata
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I'm aware of that (unfortunately). And I understand that, that might be the problem. But I saw some people on few boards that had same config and recomended it. They didn't have any issues.

I'm asking because changing my motherboard or cpu would be very expensive, so I'm hoping there might be other solution?

Any ideas?

Thank you for your time!

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