Hello all,
This summer I decided to upgrade my i7- 4790k to something more professional (for video editing/graphics etc...but I also do gaming on the side).
The system I built had an Asus Prime X399-A motherboard, the 1920X threadripper processor (using Corsair h100i to cool it), gtx 980ti evga sc+, 16gb ram (tried 32 and that made issues worse later on), 1tb boot SSD, and a an SSD raid array (4 drives ~1 TB). 850watt powrsupply and no overclock.
At first I was lazy and did not reinstall Windows, and had lots of freezing and crashing. After a month or so of intermitted usage, I decided to reinstall Windows. Since then everything just got worse.
Unfortunately I was tolerating the issues because I was in University and had no time to use my desktop much besides the usual word/Matlab.
As of right now:
Premiere crashes at the last second on outputs intermittently. After effects refuses to boot. (I have surfed all Adobe forums for solutions). Games like far cry 5, AC Odyssey, PUBG, Doom, and Minecraft (of all things) freeze in the middle of gameplay intermittently. Also they sometimes take like 5 minutes to do an automatic save.
Things I have tried:
- Reseating EVERYTHING.
- Replacing ram to 3 different kits I had lying around.
- checking pins with a magnifying glass
- checking pins with a microscope
- new thermal compound on cooler
- moving ram sticks to different slots in all permutations and configurations I could possibly conjure up
- changing graphics card to gtx 960, gtx 660, r9 290x (dual and single)
- used different boot drives and sata ports (200 gb SSD [this one died during testing, idk if that's significant], 1tb SSD, 4tb hard drive, and a couple of other options I had laying around)
- installed bios updates sequentially to try each (I went in order of release dates)
- reinstalled windows between each trial (I am on break rn)
I am at a loss of options as of right now. I have been building professional systems for video editing, gaming, and some other niche purposes and never encounted this sort of behaviour - I guess I've been getting lucky?
I think I have isolated the problem to CPU/motherboard as the other components work fine on other machines. The problem is that the system boots up, works apparently fine and then an hour in you realise that chrome starts to glitch and do weird things, games still behave erratically (even stupid simple ones like minecraft)
I guess my question is how do I isolate the to problem to CPU or the motherboard as I'm on a limited budget right now (and for a good bit)?
Is there anything else I should try what I have not?
Any and all help is appreciated
(Also this is my first post on this forum, so if I butchered something I apologise ahead of time)