SlammichTheSorcerer

Unfortunately, I wish. I just now had a buddy come in with a spare kit of Kingston Hyper X KHX3200C16D4/8GX 8GB ram and an old GPU, same issues persist. Also fished out a pair of Crucial Ballistix Sport LT 4GB sticks, same fare. Won't take cinebench without rebooting.

Unfortunately, I'm getting close to my wit's end with this one. Over two weeks ago, I've started experiencing my entire PC going black before rebooting during gaming and sometimes even just starting programs. I've tried stress-testing and found that both the GPU and CPU under load will trigger it, under 10 minutes on cinebench and around 15 minutes on furmark. This is a bit distressing for me, since I just bought my board and CPU 5 months ago, they were doing great until recently. I haven't even gone into the case to do anything ever since I installed everything. Steps I've already taken to fix and/or self-diagnose: Bought a new power supply, going from 650w to 750w and replacing every power cable Reseated every cable multiple times updated BIOS, Windows, GPU drivers and chipset drivers, reset CMOS Retried by removing a ram stick from my 2 stick config and trying them each separately Checked thermals, during CPU tests core temp never got over 75c before rebooting stress-tested CPU with prime 95 through ultimate boot cd to factor out Windows issues, still rebooted extensively checked event viewer, admittedly I'm not an expert on this subject at all, but under critical all I find is event ID 41, kernel-power. pulled out the reset header in the off-chance that it might be shorting out somehow I'm beginning to think I'm looking at either a CPU or motherboard error, unfortunately I don't have a spare one of either to start testing either, so I'm worried I might have to concede and try and send either or both back to the store and hope they honor a warranty, unless someone here might have a clue on further steps I can take or where else I can look? My specs are as follows: OS: Windows 11 64-bit, 22H2, build 22621.1635 Mobo: MSI MPG X570S Carbon Max Wifi (Bios version 1.50) CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800x3D, no overclocks CPU-cooler: Cooler Master MasterLiquid ML240L V2 RGB Ram: 2x8GB Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro (running at 2133 MHz, problem persists no matter XMP profile) GPU: MSI RTX 3070 Gaming X Trio (stock) Boot drive: Samsung SSD 980 pro 2TB as a boot drive Additional drives: Samsung SSD 970 Evo 1TB and 850 EVO 250 PSU: Gigabyte UD750GM (750W 80+ gold)

A while back I got to building my first gaming pc, so far been extremely satisfied by it, but now here's the thing: I've been extremely interested in jumping on the VR bandwagon and might save up to buy myself an Oculus Rift when it comes out, depending on the price etc. Thing is though, I'm not sure at all if my pc can handle it. Can anyone maybe provide some insight on being able to manage or pointing out if this or that needs an upgrade? So far I'm using the following components: CPU: AMD FX-8350 Cooler: Scythe Shuriken Rev. B RAM: Kingson HyperX FURY 8GB DIMM DDR3-1600 Mobo: ASUS M5A78L-M/USB3 GPU: MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GB Storage: Western Digital Blue WD10EZEX 1TB PSU: Cooler Master G650M Thanks in advance!

It's probably something about the router being picky with my computer, since it works like a charm when I used my phone as 4G hotspot to test if it drops every connection or not.

I'm about one floor away from it. Not sure how many meters or feet that is, but distance shouldn't be a problem, since a laptop and phone extremely close to eachother and they work fine, nor does it really explain the skype thing. Thanks for taking an interest and replying though!

Update on symptoms: For some reason, the internet will be fine whilst I'm in a Skype call. I figured it was because of the time that I skype, but legitimately, not a single drop whilst I'm on it, to then go back to being difficult the moment the call ends. Is this normal? Maybe some firewall setting or this or that?

We're using a TP-Link Archer C2 AC750 wireless dual band gigabit router. Wouldn't that interfere with my laptop and smartphone as well? They don't have any kind of issue whatsoever.

Yup, and yup. Not really an option, unfortunately. We recently pestered the owner of the building to get a fancy-pansy new router, doubt he's going to like it if we do it again.

Hey there. For a while now, I've been experiencing my wifi repeatedly dropping on my desktop, which is odd because it doesn't do anything like it on my laptop or smartphone, or for anyone else in the building. It doesn't act up either whenever I'm using a mobile hotspot either, so I think it's got something to do with either my PCI-e card or the router, and unfortunately I can't access said router since it's from my dorm. I've tried both the drivers that TP-Link provided as well as the ones Windows 8.1 provides (both with power-saving off). Does anyone have any idea what I could do to remedy this problem?

Sounds like I can't pass up that deal then! I might just get that and hope that 650w'll be enough, unless someone else has a better idea that won't bankrupt me.

Ooh, I just checked, the ASUS R9290-DC20C-4GD5 retails at about 325 euro here, would that be a better buy then?

Right now I'm mostly looking into GTAV, Dark Souls 2, DayZ, MGS5 and such, looking forward to giving Witcher 2+3 and Killing Floor 2 a go, other than that, nothing really specific in mind, just see what strikes me as fun.

I'd like to dabble a bit in overclocking yeah, but just lightly, since I don't feel like potentially wrecking my first babby. Honestly, I'd like to get the 970, but it just won't fit in my budget, since it retails at about 375 to 400 euro to my knowledge. Won't the 2GB of vram end up being insufficient in the future though?

Hey there I know this type of question probably gets asked around extremely often, but I thought I'd try my hand at it anyway. I built myself a computer for the first time, but omitted a graphics card til I get the money, student budget and such. Since I've got a budget of max 300 euro for the graphics card, I figured I'd go for the GTX 960, especially since electricity is to be paid separately from my dorm room and consumption's a concern for me. Now, since Belgian prices are pretty high when it comes to graphics cards and that my main site for computer parts offers only the MSI or ASUS Strix version of it for roughly the same price, which one should I get, or should I just drop that thought and go for the R9 280x, despite the higher power consumption and potential sound? Also, I put in a 650w power supply, should do it, right? Thanks in advance!