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This game suffers from heavy shader compilation stutter and every time you install new or old driver the game has to compile the shader cache again. You likely had already everything compiled for the most part before you changed the diver. It will fix itself over time by playing.

Arctic Liquid Freezer III whichever size you can fit. The offset mount benefits AMD nicely. But realistically for day to day use almost any midrange cooler will be more than enough.

Then it's possible the memory controller on CPU is busted. Try OCCT extreme with large FFT. Try y-cruncher FFT for 2h.

Either in the Digi Power Options or the Tweakers Paradise. Or you can just hit F9 and search for "Load" and it should find it.

Yes but that's quite normal in those games in those scenarios. As I've said, if that's bothering you a good memory OC or a X3D CPU will help in these cases.

Just a test if its GPU at fault. Furmark is a power hog so if GPU temp or VRM is bad it would crash the system. 30min should be enough

Try Furmark to stress your GPU then.

Damn, it's possible there is a HW being faulty. Can you try each stick in each slot separately?

But Linus isn't very big

LTT invented orange color and they should sue all the orange trees from infringing on their brand.

No UFO test from blurbusters?

YT was trying to make me watch this video for a weeks and now that it's gone you show it in here... No, it does not. What I think kinda needs to die within the x86 are some of the legacy stuff but that may or may not affect backwards compabillity of some things and deciding which things should go may not be as straightforward.

Most modern games are CPU bound and FFXIV absolutely benefits from the X3D cache on 5800X3D/7800X3D so you will not experience these huge FPS drops in areas with many people. You can kinda improve performance on your 5900X with a good memory tuning but if you actually want to be stable then that will take some time with proper testing, not sure if you're willing to go trough that.

This looks fine. Still quite loose timings but more than reasonable voltages at least. I suggest you to stick with this for few days and see if you run into issues. If not then we can try to start tweaking the DRAM speed and timings.

Have you tried the DRAM Current Capability increase? (if that's even available on MSI boards). My PC will randomly shut down when playing games if I don't do this with my RAM setup even at 2133MT/s. But at 110% from default 100% I can even OC up to 3800MT/s without issues. As I mentioned, try to lower that VDDP, it's possible that this is also root of the issue as it's too close to SOC voltage and VDDP and VDDG should always be lower than SOC. Try 0.930V. Try setting CPU Load Line Calibration to Mode 3, it's possible that voltage droop is causing CPU instability in some cases. (I don't know how the levels are on MSI boards, on ASUS the Level 3 is the best for day to day use and on Gigabyte they have reverse order so you may need to experiment a bit just don't go to any extreme settings, I believe Mode 3 should be fine). Disable Curve Optimizer if you've tried it or any negative voltage offsets.

These are very loose timings. I doubt this is causing instability. You either need to bump up the DRAM Current Capability a bit or tweak voltages. VDDP voltage is way too high and this may have caused some degradation though it's just a possibility not a sure thing. You shouldn't really need more than 0.9V to 0.93V at most usually at those DRAM speeds. VDDG is fine but also kinda too high. You may need to bump up ProcODT for stability but that may also then require higher DRAM voltage. Edit Have you actually done some RAM stability testing? It's possible the crashes are caused by something else.

Yes it does if instead of trying to run max settings your goal is to achieve certain FPS target with sacrifice to graphical fidelity. Yes it matters a lot of you want to use upscaling technology like DLSS, FSR, XeSS...

Every time I've tried XeSS on AMD it was smearing terribly in motion. Is it better with 1.3?