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can you borrow a PSU from anyone just to test it out? if it is the PSU your problem should disappear then right? I have a PSU I've been using almost non stop since 2012 / 2011 maybe can't recall. and mine is a much crappier brand than Corsair. But if dust was a lot and the PSU was sitting idle. it might have made a capacitor too hot and it popped. easy to replace for someone like me, not something I'd recommend to someone inexperienced with PSU's & soldering though. Best bet is to try and borrow a PSU from someone. if the problem persists it's likely the Motherboard. One thing I'd recommend doing before going through all this trouble in the first place is just reseating the CPU cooler since it might not make good enough contact with the CPU and that is throttling the CPU and eventually shutting it down.

more likely a mobo problem than PSU. could be a bios update fixes it, but I would be scared to do a bios update with a chance of the pc failing during the update. not sure if the tuff has bios recovery or not. have a disliking in Asus since my X99 systems all having some kind of issue. X99 Deluxe board, Rampage V and some other I can't remember costing around $800 Here in RSA

exactly why I'm telling you about the low performance jump for the current 2 ryzen gens. 1st gen Ryzens are cheap even here in South Africa which is why I recommend it to most people. R3 2nd gen vs R5 1st gen? the R5 wins on a super budget

get the R7. not much of a performance jump from 1k gen to 2k gen Ryzen. hopes are up for a big jump to 3k Ryzen

I had this issue on one of my 1070s. turns out the gpu was overheating without the core overheating. replaced my thermal pads and everything is A.OK

agreed. I have a 4k monitor and if I could get it sold here in South Africa for a price that'll buy me a 21:9 1440p setup or even just a regular 27" 1440p monitor I'd be happy to sell or trade it. but I can't seem to get rid of it. luckily I got it for free since the power supply got fried the guy who owned it just ordered a new one and didn't bother with this one any further. gave it to me.

man I got the older X600 series Ryzen 5 and I can guarantee he'll be more than happy with it. recommend it over the 2600 if you go for a X370 board though since X370 boards need a bios update to operate 2k series Ryzen. else go for a 2k series and a X470 board. I went from an i7 5960X to my Ryzen5 1600 and don't feel much of any difference in any of the tasks I do, increase in speed to some tasks (guessing ram speeds have smth to do with that since my Asus Deluxe X99 wouldn't run my 3200 Mhz ram at XMP) He'll most definitely love Ryzen

nope, rocking 2x ribbons myself since the strix and G1 gaming aren't equally wide the HB bridge isn't ideal, but I got one with my Asrock Taichi so used it for a while till one day I was cleaning the pc and doing some maintenance I thought I'd try 2x ribbons since that'd put less physical strain on the GPUs being pulled together by the bridge (again not same width) and found no performance drops at all. also no increase of stuttering either.

agree with Vejnemojnen you'll have to sell your current setup and start fresh. Totally worth it though Ryzen is hella bang for buck

I'm basically in the same boat as you when it comes to SLI, I don't think it's worth it to "upgrade to" but still if you pick up a bargain on the second card years after you purchased the first and have specific games you like playing it is worth getting. especially in a case where you can always send one to your second rig and put one in your GF's pc when you finally find something worth upgrading to. (this is my specific case) and I don't know if OP would have a similar case down the line so I'm basically just saying I wouldn't have done the deal if I didn't already have a 700 Watt psu in my system.

agree with the cooling being overkill, but the psu not so much, if OP decides to SLI down the line the 750W will come in handy.. I mean I never thought I'd go SLI but found a 1070 for such a bargain and play games like watch dogs 2 witcher 3 GTA V Far cry 5 metal gear solid V & FFXV which all either support native SLI or have a custom SLI profile so I went for it. got the second 1070 for 2800 Zar.. a secondhand 1060 sells for more. AMD used to be power hungry, not so much so when it comes to Ryzen, but whatever, Still not a bad PSU choice

then get a Ryzen 5 and focus on a good GPU

wait, why? High refresh rate 1080 / 1440 will like the i5 more than 4k cares anything about whether it has the R5 or the i5 since the GPU is more of a bottleneck at 4k than the cpu.

ok first off, what screen do you use? are you going to be gaming at 60 fps or 144? it really depends. for gaming & doing other tasks I'd personally go Ryzen since it's cheaper and the performance difference is really not that big. it only starts getting anywhere over 100 fps anyway so for 60 - 80 fps gaming I'd rather buy a Ryzen cpu and a beefier GPU than a intel equivalent and a crappier GPU because my budget got F'ed by Intel's heavy pricing AMD is more than capable and a lot of review are before certain optimizations etc. When a better AMD cpu comes out you can save on buying a new mobo since yours will be compatible. Intel searches for reasons to change the mobo socket. Get a Ryzen CPU and a better GPU. gaming relies a lot heavier on the GPU than CPU. You'll be fine with either though.

I have a Asrock X470 Taichi and a R5 1600 (priced cheaper than some 4 cores in my country) and have 0 problems running my corsair vengeance 3200 kit at xmp profile. I believe it might be your motherboard holding you back. (also tried faster a 3600 MHz kit of an acquaintance of mine and they ran at full speed)

lol dude, no. Think of the videos with comments coming in by the second.. to moderate those with how crappy YT comment section is at throwing comments to the far back is ridiculous and either way, THIS is not the answer. Trolls will F things up badly. also you get those that run scripts for the purpose of showing weakness in poor mechanics. Youtube itself is lazy as balls. They automate almost everything and can't test their shit before making them live.

it's either an unstable overclock or those sata cables have a loose connection. best to just replace those cables and get new ones, they're pretty damn cheap even in third world countries.

some games do not really care about the CPU and only need raw Graphics card power. in those games they won't even care that you only have a 4770. They will take advantage of the 2080 and give more fps. Then later when you get the zen 2 your games that performed almost the same as with the 2070 because of your cpu will also start performing better because the cpu is able to keep up. Going with the 2080 will never be bottlenecked to the point where it is weaker than a 2070 in the same kind of setup that is.

but you yourself said you will get zen 2 when it comes out. at least then you don't have to go and buy yet another gpu again. also even if the cpu bottlenecks it a tad it will still juice out more performance than the 2070 and in non cpu limited games the fps gain will be greater

buy the 2080 if you have the money for it. You will get more fps out of it so for your 144hz monitor it's a better choice incase a new game comes out and the 2070 maybe struggles a tad or barely able to keep those fps high enough for you.

gtx 1060, RX 570 or anything up from there would be fine since you'll lower graphics in any case if they are not so don't stress too much and pick up the best bargain you can find.

Hey man, not sure how correct I am but the way I've always seen XMP was like the RAM manufacturer would test timings and speeds on the ram, find a nice stable speed with good timings for each chip and mark the xmp profile. like a saved state for the ram essentially. It's probably more like they apply an xmp profile and run it through automated tests in the factory and which tests they pass and which xmp profile they hit stability at would be the different speeds we get? I might be totally off though. but XMP seems to me like a guaranteed state for specific chips to overclock to. I mean buying a 2400 MHz chip doesn't mean it can't run at a higher speed but it might have not hit the timings the company want the higher speed to run at so it got labled at 2400 MHz / it only passed a certain speed on certain memory controllers but not all of the simulated ones, so a higher speed can't be guaranteed. That's what I would think goes on. How else would they be certain that a chip can handle whatever it is they put the XMP profile to. Side note: I recently moved over to a AMD Ryzen 5 1600 (using the Asrock Taichi X470) because my NVME drive had a lot of trouble on my Asus Deluxe X99 board (paired with 5960X) . and it's the first time I'm able to get the xmp profile to run stable without any issues. I could get the deluxe board to run XMP on their latest bios but then NVME would not work at all. I think it's an Asus bios issue for most of their xmp issues. certain timings still picking up as auto or smth else than the xmp profile is supposed to override them to.

yes

Zotac is better than gigabyte

personally I removed my entire PCIe Slot and clipped off the pins with a sharp scissor or smth to make sure there is no chance of accidental contact. afterwards it just almost looks like there was an open lane they didn't put a PCIe in. I actually did this, the X99 Deluxe I have in my rig I got for free since the pins were smooshed together and shorted out the board, I just clipped all the pins off and the board worked.