VioDuskar

what type of blue screen error do you get? it might be the RAM.

I wouldn't buy a gaming motherboard for this. nor a "K" processor, as you're not going to overclock it. motherboards with two NICs are nice for a case like this, but features like LEDs and WiFi aren't really worth the money.

power draw and heat dissipation are linked, but I would not say 1W of power consumption means 1W of heat to dissipate. that would mean you have an insanely inefficient circuit.

it is a legit link, but it's littered with red flags. @DIrty Toaster can you make a PCpartPicker.com link with the same parts?

the TDP of the 10850K is only 125W. https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/205904/intel-core-i910850k-processor-20m-cache-up-to-5-20-ghz.html even if it's putting out more than 125W at full load that cooler should be fine. @PicTonyif you want a better cooler look for those with vapor chambers. honestly, i think you're fine. don't waste your time and money just because you've seen some warm temps, especially in a benchmark made to stress your CPU. see how it performs under casual load and make a decision based on that. also, take all my advice on heating with a grain of salt. my rig is 75C-85C at idle. I've got my core crammed in an SFF rig with only the tiny stock AMD cooler.

why would anyone click that link? it looks like an amazon link, but a user with 1 post, and an obfuscated link is kind of sketchy.

CineBench is a CPU benchmark that is made to stress test your CPU's performance. your CPU will get hot at 100% usage. run a game for a few hours and record your temps, see if you have the same issue. if your idle is below 40C i wouldn't worry about temps in a synthetic benchmark.

what? why not use a wireless controller and charge it when your game session is done?

I use a DS4 (PlayStation 4 controller) it's Bluetooth, so it's easy to connect. the only downside I have is the need for an mapping program like DS4Windows. it's center pad acts as a mouse, which is nice. i just charge it via a USB cable at my desk, so no need for an expensive controller dock. Sure, I don't get the sweet rear paddles, but it's still worthwhile to me, and I don't think it's worth buying a new controller just for my PC.

so... you never really managed the cables in the first place? cable management is an art, but it involves actually securing the cables. using tie blocks, running the cables inside the walls for hanging TVs, etc. managing cables it making it so you CAN'T trip over them or get tangled in them.

heck, that looks perfect. i'll give it a shot!

depends on how dead it is, but normally no. normally you wouldn't get past POST

have you ran one stick at a time to see if one of the sticks are dead?

i suppose that's a better way to phrase it, but I also just need the file hosting features, not much else.

swap slots? report results? do you have 4 slots or two? are your sticks staggered if you have 4 slots?

I prefer a GUI, but I'm not against a little command line, I just don't want to do EVERYTHING in CLI. I don't care if it resembles '98 as long as the interface is easy to get setup. i'm probably only going to look at it once every blue moon. I should clarify I mean light on the disk size, not CPU usage or RAM, I have plenty of that.

I just slap them in a desk drawer. if it works for RAM it will work for an m.2 I live in a high temp/humidity environment and I don't worry about it.

i'm looking for a user friendly OS to turn into a VM on my ProxMox server. I would like a GUI I would like to set up FTP and SMB on the same disk. (as it's a virtual disk, already in a raid) a little background: I currently have a trueNAS machine doing some FTP and SMB services for me, however, I cannot cluster with TrueNAS, and I would very much like to. I have two server chassis with hardware in them, and I plan to use the new one to set up ProxMox, migrate all of my TrueNAS data over, then wipe the old chassis and add it to the ProxMox cluster as a secondary node. I plan to set up a new VM to replace TrueNAS's functions, but I don't know what to pick. I know that pretty much any OS can run SMB and FTP services, but I also want to setup a plex service that pulls it's content from the NAS data. TL:DR; Need light GUI OS that can run SMB, FTP, and Plex services. please suggest.

awesome. i've been hanging out in the thread to get the in-thread notification. but i'll head out now. just reply to me so i can find the thread again.

correct. it shouldn't detect the stick at all if it's dead. i'd see if a slot change helps. be sure to stagger the slots, as that's how most of the dual channels are set up. if this doesn't help i'd get the latest BIOS version 7B89vAD. are you sure that's the version you're running? link for reference: https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/support/B450M-MORTAR-TITANIUM#down-bios

under SLOT#1 and SLOT#2 what does it show? you can swap the sticks to the other two slots and see if that fixes the issue. you may have a dead slot. you can swap the sticks and see if the problem stick is an issue in the other slot. you may have a dead stick. you can update the BIOS, you may have a BIOS issue. (this is rather unlikely.)

task manager shows slots used 2 of 4? if OS tools detect all of your RAM your BIOS may just have an error reporting, in which case you can either ignore it, or update the BIOS.

i have pulled off some super crusty and crumbly paste before. A day isn't going to hurt the paste much, but you should be worried about open air contaminants like animal hair and similar dust balls getting in your paste and getting stuck. I'd just wipe off the paste and reapply in the morning. just wipe it with some alcohol and paper towels/ cotton balls and put new paste on the CPU. (if you use cotton balls make sure you don't leave any cotton strands)

i'd try to wipe the USB tool and set it up again. something is funky. try another distro of linux and see if you have the same issues? is the disk healthy?

did you format it?