BSOD at random intervals, during different operations.

Well, after uninstalling AMD CCC with driver sweeper and reinstalling without CCC, I crashed again after half an hour. The distortion one again, not a BSOD. And while I'm fairly sure it is indeed the MSI board and not the i7, I'm very close to the deadline to be able to return the i7. Plus this is actually the second board I've tried, the first was So because of the return window, and because I feel like being cheap, I'm gonna switch to an FX8350 and hope these issues don't come back, since I never had anything like this with my old 1090t. Thank you for trying to help everyone, I'll recommend this board if anyone I know has issues like this.

Britton30 said:

Keep us updated. Personally I prefer ASUS for boards and many have good luck with Gigabyte and ASRock.

I returned the i7 and the board, and bought an FX8350 and an ASUS board (for $100 less than the cost of the just the i7, which was nice). I have them installed and so far, no problems.

Nice rig. So far I've been enjoying mine. I'd post pics if I had a decent camera, but I'll lay down the full specs for the curious:

FX8350
Sapphire 7870
OCZ 850 watt PSU
16gb Gskill DDR3 1600 RAM
ASUS M5A97 R2.0
Dual Samsung 7200 RPM 1TB HDD
AZZA Solano 1000R ATX full case
some cheap DVD-RW drive
RAT 7 mouse
Logitech G19 keyboard

I got such a big PSU since way back when I had a 6850 I was gonna dual card, but that never came to pass. Also I kinda wanna try a mechanical keyboard, but I've never used one and I know there are a few different types, and there's nowhere I can try before I buy.

As for my current setup, the games I tried ran beautifully, including a heavily modded Skyrim. And the reason I went RAT 7 is because I have giant hands and it was the biggest mouse I could find, and it's still too small.

One last newbie question, should I mark this topic as solved? Or would that confuse future forum lookers since I solved the problem by buying completely new parts?