Silly Ducklings

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My PC crashes completely, sudden black screen and full reboot, when starting games sometimes. It has happened with Hunt: Showdown, Warzone, Apex Legends, and Enlisted so far, but I feel like these games don't have anything specific to do with it. Sometimes it will also only crash a couple minutes after launch, but most of the time the crash is immediately when the game is started (before the game even pops onto the screen). Sometimes, the games will stop crashing my PC, and I will be able to play them normally for a while, but this doesn't seem to last. For example, Warzone crashed my PC on launch a ton a few months ago, then for the next couple months it did not, but now it is crashing again. The event viewer critical error is Kernel-Power, ID 41. AFAIK this is just standard "something bad happened", so idk if that's of any use. I have an old PC with two 980s in it, and I tried swapping my GPU with one of those, but the crashes still happened, so its not the GPU. I can use a different PSU to test if the PSU is what's causing the problem by taking the 1000w PSU from my old PC, but I would have to rip out most of the cable management from my old PC (because corsair and EVGA cables are not compatible) and doing this and putting everything back together afterword would take at least 3 hours and would be a massive pain, so I'd like to get some pointers for like diagnostic tools or something (?) before doing that. Anyone have any advice for how I should try to fix this? Specs: CPU: Ryzen 5950x (not overclocked) GPU: Asus 3090 TUF (not overclocked nor factory overclocked) PSU: Corsair SF750 RAM: 2x Corsair LPX 32gb 3600mhz CL18 MB: Asus X570-I This is a mini-ITX build in a CM NR200. As far as I can see, nothing is rubbing up against anything important though, so I don't think poor cable management has anything to do with the problem. Edit: Also, this has been happening off and on depending on what games I'm playing at the time (it has never crashed with Valorant, which is what I mostly play) since I first built this thing about 5 months ago. I have gone through numerous updated GPU drivers and have updated my CPU drivers once, and neither of these two things stopped the crashing.

Nothing other than what I have now. We contacted comcast last year about expanding on our road (they are like 1-2 miles away from us in every direction, and our road has a fairly large amount of houses for a rural area) and after calling them like 20 times over the past 8 months we just got in touch with them today, and they said they had no plans of coming here. Some foreign guy from the ATT sales line said ATT was laying fiber in our area and it would be ready within 2 months, but I haven't seen any fiber conduit or trenches anywhere near where I live recently, so I'm pretty sure he was confusing the expansion in the entire state with just my road.

There is one, but it offers a max of 10Mbps (they don't specify upload, so i'll assume thats for both...?) and it costs $180 per month, with an install fee of $150. (little tripod on the top of the house) Plus the LoS around my area is not great at all. We would probably have to get a tower of some sort. I'm 17 and will be going off to college next year, and my other 2 siblings don't really want to move, so that isn't really an option either.

I knew it would be a bitch to use, but from what I can tell openwrt is a bigger bitch to use. (could be 100% wrong, but that was my takeaway from glancing over both) Edit - Also, if I end up with a new router, i'll probably be going with tomato, since it seems to be the least bitchy and best for bandwidth monitoring. If higher-grade QoS is anything like a per-device throttling application (netbalancer, cfosspeed, netlimiter) it'll 100% work. I have to use netlimiter when windows 10 decides to force a mandatory update to download, and it works perfectly. I've seriously considered 4g, but that will definitely be a last resort. I have almost no service at my house so I would need an extender, and when I've gotten it to work by jamming my phone into an awkward corner of my roof, it adds about 25-30 ms of latency, and is obviously a lot less stable. (when I have the internet to myself, that is) I'll just do a bunch of research into a bunch of different routers/switches/firmware, and hopefully I'll figure out a solution. I was hoping there would be some magic device that would keep her netflix addiction completely separate from my connection, but I guess not.

Never considered that, do you have any suggestions on what switches I should be looking at? I don't want to break the bank, but I'm afraid if I spend $30-40 bucks on a small switch I'll end up with the same problem I have now, so any tips would be greatly appreciated.

I've thought of a 3rd party firmware, but as far as I can tell the two most popular ones (tomato and DD-WRT) don't support my R7500. (I think openwrt does, but that one seems a bit over my head TBH, so I'd rather go with the more popular options if possible) If I could have 2 gigabit, even if it cost 400 a month, i'd have it. The money isn't the issue, the area is. I'll probably just have to get another router and load some firmware that actually does something onto it, as the dynamic QoS from netgear doesn't seem to do much.

Even if she would be ok with that, which I doubt very seriously (i've had about 5 conversations with her about installing a throttling program on her laptop, none of which ended well), most of her time on the internet is spent either on her iphone or apple TV, and I doubt very seriously I could find something like NetLimiter for those. I guess my only option is to find a really beefy router with some A+ firmware so i can throttle her then, any suggestions? Edit - I realised after posting how terrible "so i can throttle her" sounded, but you have to understand that this has been a problem for years, and that everyone in my house agrees with me. Also, everyone who does internet intensive activities will be throttled, not just her. (she's just 90% of those activities sadly)

That's what i was worried about. Right now we're so far grandfathered in to a shit ATT line that if we dropped it now theres a 99% chance we couldn't even get it back. Definitely can't get another one, in fact we have two phone lines, but they said it wasn't gonna happen.

If you're saying that I'm trying to keep the speeds at 6 down and 0.8 up while she's streaming/uploading, no I know that isn't gonna work. I wanted to make two connections, one with like 4 down 0.5 up, the other with like 2 down 0.3 up. Edit - A lot (like 75%) of the problem is her apple tv which she uses for netflix, so throttling that with netlimiter or something similar isn't an option. Same with her iphone and social media, AFAIK there isn't an app for that. Even if there was, i've discussed buying her a netlimiter license on her laptop so she could do that but she just blows me off every time.

I'm not talking about a switch, I'm not talking about two wifi hotspots, I mean two separate connections with two separate bandwidth caps. I have 6Mb down and 0.8Mb up on a really good day, and my sister downloads things/streams netflix/uploads images to social media (0.8 upload, you can imagine how brutal this would be) almost 100% of the time she is awake at my house, meaning I lose anywhere between 20 and 70 packets per minute when I play league of legends. I manage to fit in some ranked games when I have time early in the mornings when I wake up (if she's still asleep), but obviously this isn't a very great solution. Is there any device that can make two separate connections out of one, that won't interfere with each other if one of them gets completely floored? I've got a nighthawk router with dynamic QoS, and that doesn't do anything at all as far as I can tell, so before anyone suggests I tweak my QoS settings, I've tried. (also tried manually setting my priority to "highest" and all of her devices to "low", also does nothing)

I read you could only update the bios with a CPU installed from another thread about this on another site, but if I can just update it with a USB stick that would be awesome. Hopefully I don't have to though.

I know that the BIOS on this may not support the 6800k, but i'm in a bit of a pickle. So I'm helping a friend build a PC, and he's buying all the parts over the course of like a year, most of which are purchased, CPU and MB included, so returning things that don't work as intended probably isn't an option at this point. If we find out that we got an old one that doesn't support the 6800k, what can we do? Send it off to asus? I know of 0 people in the area who have a haswell e cpu, let alone people that would let us borrow one to update the bios. Any help would be appreciated.

Yeah, not possible to support 128 GB of ram while not supporting 16 GB dimms, but since the manual seems to contradict that i'll just go with 4x8 LPX dimms. Thanks for the help man.

I've read between 40mm and 45mms, and the dominator platinum is around 55mms IIRC. I was less asking about the clearance of the ram itself, and more about if I could put the ram in a wonky configuration on the motherboard and still have it work properly. I think I could get it to fit If I put two of the 8 gig platinum dimms on slot 1 and 2 on the left side and 3 and 4 on the right side, but I doubt that would work properly. Still confused about the 2 sticks of 16 gigs though, maybe "unbuffered" means some fancy thing I don't understand and doesn't apply to normal ram...? Hopefully that's the case, since we'll probably be getting 2x16 LPX dimms instead of platinums.