Larus

Perhaps consider testing the battery in Linus's personal phone against a fresh one, to rule out if some aspect of his usage is deteriorating the battery.

I found changing from 1866 to 2400 ram got me about 10% extra performance when running somewhat ram intensive simulations

Is your monitor set to receive a hdmi input? some of my monitors will ignore a hdmi input unless they've been told to use the hdmi port.

I think the crucial factor here is the streaming, with the 1600, maybe your video editing will take longer, but it'll work fine. Now on the other hand, if your CPU isn't sufficient for your streaming needs then it's not going to work.

Honestly OP, you come across as kinda toxic on this post, which I'm guessing is why what happened, happened. If Jay wants to maintain a healthy comment section then good for him, I imagine doing so must be a lot of work.

Update: RMA'd both Mobo and CPU, no word on what actually occurred but after testing the CPU was found to be faulty and is being replaced.

Honestly I think you could just flip a coin, there is such little difference between them. Having said that, unless you can make use of those extra Ryzen cores I'd probably go for the slightly faster single threaded performance of the intel chips.

Pet Seagull

I ran memtest86 on the first ram kit after it started having problems and it did find errors, I haven't tested the second kit though. I think the software is fine, for both ram kits I got lot of computation done without crashes, but once they began I'd get one every few hours - what's its computing hasn't changed either, it just has to run the same simulation over and over till the results converge. I have also contacted the software provider who inform me I'm the only person reporting issues with a Ryzen build. In addition to the simulation crashing, windows has occasionally crashed. I've been running the software successfully on an intel i3 machine, albeit much slower. I've spoken to Overclockers, the shop I bought the Mobo and CPU from and they seem to think its most likely either the CPU memory controller or the Mobo is overVolting the ram causing it to fail. I'm not feeling that confident about RMAing either board or CPU though, seems unlikely they'll be able to test for this kind of fault?

I've given both of these a try over the last few hours but I'm still getting crashes due to access errors, worth a shot though, thanks.

Hi all, Hoping someone can lend some insight to what I've been experiencing, about 2months ago I built a new PC (specs below) for performing engineering simulations, but since then I've had two ram kits become unstable. By Unstable I mean the pc would still boot, but every few hours of simulation there would be a crash due to a ram access error. Same story for each kit, would fine work for a week or two then the crashes start. Build: Windows 10, Ryzen 7 1700, ASrock ab350m pro4, 16gb cheap crucial DDR4 - problems after a week, replaced by; 16gb GSkill Flair X (the good stuff with samsung b-die chips) - lasted about three weeks, I guess it lasted longer as its higher quality, Corsair CX430 PSU, Nvidia GT720 graphics card, I've diligently updated the mother board with the latest BIOS releases but it doesn't seem to have had any effect. Anyone got any ideas what is causing this? fyi its being used in a modern office which as far as I know has a clean power supply. Thanks in advance.

Cool projector bro