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Cinebench R24 most definitely has a gpu benchmark.

Good point. HP uses the quick method though, it takes like 5 seconds. I did have another thought. Tomorrow evening I am going to try updating the bios. I'm fairly certain it is running on the bios from two years ago. The person I got it from isn't likely to have updated it. I should know, she is my daughter. LOL

A couple days ago I was given an HP Victus laptop. It has an i5 12500h and an RTX 3050. It was running and working but I wanted to factory reset it to get rid of the previous owner's stuff. I initiated the windows reinstall and when the system rebooted it said the hard drive had failed the SMART check and wouldn't continue. The drive passes every other test HP has in their hardware diagnostics. Am I crazy for thinking a 2 year old NVME drive that was apparently working fine shouldn't just fail like that? I googled this and about the only thing useful I came up with was a reddit thread from a couple months ago with the exact same problem. Any ideas or do I need to buy a new drive? EDIT TO ADD: I've tried 4 different sticks of ram in both slots, not that it should matter. EDIT 2: I just used a recovery USB drive with Diskgenius on it and viewed the SMART status and it says the drive is fine.

I was going to guess wireless earbud case charger.

I'm having a similar problem but I have adblock disabled and I have Youtube Premium. System is a 5800x, 3080, 32GB 3600 ram and windows is on an NVME drive. Sometimes video and audio stop even though the buffer bar at the bottom is well past the played content in red. Sometimes the audio plays but the video stops. Sometimes I shift click to open a video in a new window and the video loads but nothing else making it impossible to fullscreen the video. I have to f11 out, close the window and try again. I am using firefox on Win 10. I saw someone above mention newer Nvidia drivers can cause this. What version should I try rolling back to? Speedtest results:

All I am going to say regarding the "eww nvidia" sentiment is look at how AMD is handling this 110 degree hotspot fiasco. Lets be real, both companies do shady stuff....a lot.

Hi folks. I'm starting to get back into fixing computers for people after a couple years off. Is Hiren's still decent or is there a better free alternative to boot from a USB?

Fixed it, don't ask me how though. I was poking around in the settings while mostly drunk last night.

LMAO, 1/4 of my current ram sounds like a bad idea.

Any idea how to get a space between RAM and the number? This is causing my OCD to slowly kill me.

OK, I accept the B550 argument. As for the 3070 I wasn't implying that the video card would not match the motherboard. I was saying that if you can afford a 5900 you might consider a better graphics card. OP gave zero indication what this system would be used for. If it is for gaming it is horribly configured. If it is for content creation maybe it makes sense. I guess what I am trying to say is we need more information. I am a gamer so I tend to approach everything from a gamer's perspective. I know that isn't always right but for me to look at something different I need more info, not just a list with no context.

I have one question. Why the hell would you pair a 5900x with a B class motherboard and a 3070?

With the prices you have in your PCPP list in mind I would go with this. https://pcpartpicker.com/list/rQdpH2

Right, but 650 for a 2060 is really nuts comparatively.

I just price checked. Newegg has a 3060ti from MSI for 579.