Supagetti

Australian based. Still just using the stock wraith cooler the CPU came with to be honest with you. I should've done this awhile ago.

Actually, overclocking is never something I've ever played around with - I think that might be worth looking into. Cheers. Funnily enough, I decided to monitor my temps just now, honestly just on a whim. My CPU is at 96 degrees Celsius. I've got Cyberpunk2077 open on my main monitor, but paused and unfocused. I might just be thermal throttling and didn't even realise it. I think I might just invest in some new fans and CPU cooler and paste first, and see how that goes.

This is actually great, thanks heaps - I'm so glad I came here to ask. I didn't even consider the memory to be honest, that's another great point. Looks like the B650 would be a great fit, and 32gb DDR5 memory kits are pretty affordable in my part of the world, so that's no problems either. Thanks again, I genuinely appreciate it. Well 'need' is a relative term. I don't 'need' a PC at all, but I would certainly like an upgrade. I'm perfectly fine with my 3070 for the time being, I plan on seeing what an eventual 5000 series line looks like, and then maybe get a 4080. I find that at this resolution, I'm a little CPU bottlenecked in some newer games. Again, nothing major - but it would be a nice bump in performance at this point. I've looked into used parts, but unfortunately I find the used market in Australia to be exceptionally expensive and not all that extensive, and Umart (the retailer i'll use) offer great warranty and whanot, so I'd also just feel more comfortable in that regard. With that being said though, I could still get a new 5600 or 5600x, that is an option. I'm a little of the mind that I'll have to upgrade platform eventually anyway however.

Hi there. I'm thinking of upgrading my hardware relatively soon, wanted to get the thoughts of you knowledgeable fine people, as It's been awhile since i've paid attention to the CPU market. Just for context, I play just about anything and everything on PC, at 3440x1440. I also do light video editing and programming, but my current specs are fine for that to be honest. My current Specs: Ryzen 5 3600 B550M-Pro AM4 Motherboard RTX 3070 I'm looking to get the following: Ryzen 5 7600 Asus TUF B650M-Plus AM5 Keeping my 3070 for the time being. My reasoning is that the 7600 seems to be a reasonably priced upgrade from the 3600, and the AM5 board is also reasonably priced by a brand I trust, and has the IO and features I need. I do wonder however, are the AM4 and AM5 sockets compatible at all? If I could get away with just being able to upgrade my current Bios that might be good. I'd appreciate any and all feedback and input or alternative suggestions. Thanks!

I ended up going with the Gigabyte GA-AB350M-HD3. It was cheaper and serves the purpose I needed it to. As far as the wireless adaptor goes - It very well could just be a coincidence. When I was using my asrock board, It could crash on me anywear between 30 minutes and 16 hours, It was just random as hell. I did a fair amount of research about it - and it seems a lot of people are having trouble with the ryzen Asrock boards. The theory is that it'll stop communicating with the CPU randomly. Although, I'd take everything I've said with a grain of salt - who knows really. If you've done all the usual trouble-shooting, and you've checked your RAM is compatible, your best bet is to probably take it back to the place you purchased it, if you still can. Once I changed boards, all the issues I was previously having vanished. But that's just my experience, anyway.

WELP. I took the entire machine out of my case - tried once more to reseat the CPU - but this time I took extra care with replacing the CPU cooler, tightening it evenly, but not too much. I took it out of the case to try and isolate a potential grounding issue. I tried it before reseating the cpu again and it didn't work, but now that i've got it back together after adjusting the cpu - i'm getting my full 8gb of usable memory. So - for now, I think i've fixed the issue. I'd like to give a huge thank you to everyone who read - and most importantly, took time to reply to this post offering any kind of help at all. Thank you so much for your time, I truly do appreciate the help.

Just tried reseating my cpu. Unfortunately It didn't help fix the issue. Worth a try though.

I'll give that try tomorrow I think, might as well.

Unfortunately not. It's not really something I can go out and buy either - as the price of DDR4 is ridiculously expensive in Australia and my budget for March is already at peek as it is haha.

Yep. I tried one stick at a time, in both ram slots. Both sticks worked in both slots individually, with a full usable 4GB for each stick in each slot when I tried it.

Oh, no you're completely right - I did forget to add that to the list of things i've tried. I shall update my OP now.

I actually did all the things in that video, they were some of the first solutions I tried.

I had the same issue with my Asrock-AB350M-pro4, turned out to be a bad motherboard. I've had 4 Asrock boards fail me in 2 years - so my brand trust is non-existent for them anymore.

The games i've tested (Just cause 3, Crysis 3 and the FFXV Demo) won't use more than the usable 4gb memory, and suffer performance issues because of it. I forgot to mention this actually, as I didn't think it was relevant - but the bios isn't saying it's reserving any memory for the intergrated graphics. Which makes sense considering my CPU doesn't have any anyway.

Hello. I'm having trouble with my system - whereby only half of my system RAM is actually usable. The other half (4GB), according to resource monitor is 'hardware reserved'. I've done everything I could possible do to try and fix this and I've gone through every trouble-shooting method I could think of and find online. Briefly, I'll explain what I've done so far. - Full reinstall of windows- Updating Bios to latest version- Reset the memory- Tried each stick individually in both of the slots individually (to see if the sticks and or the board itself was physically faulty, which it doesn't seem to be, since both sticks worked just fine in both slots)- Tried another stick of DDR4 I have lying around, - Tried pairing one of the hyperX sticks with the other stick I had lying around (which presented me with the same error)- Tried changing 'pagefileatshutdown' from 0 to 1 in registry- Ran the built in windows memory diagnostics test (to which no errors were found)- Double checked to see if my particular memory sticks were on the compatibility list (which they are) - Unchecked Maximum memory in the advanced boot options of msconfig. - Tried reseating the CPU. I'm utterly stumped. Both sticks are identified by both the Bios and windows itself. I'm not one to usually ask on forums for technical support - but I think in this case I do need the help. I bought this motherboard yesterday - and I don't think it's faulty necessarily but I'm beyond stumped. I'd appreciate any and all help on this matter. Thank's heaps for your time! Full system specs: * Ryzen 3 - 1200 * Gigabyte GA-AB350m-HD3 (Latest bios) * Kingston HyperX 4GB x2 (HX421C14FBK2) * GTX 1060 (Asus Turbo cooler) *Windows 10 64x