Craigathorn

Hi all, I'm having a bit of a weird issue with my Ryzen 5000 system after building it back in December. The build was an upgrade from an intel Z170 platform (6700k) and I swapped out the motherboard, cpu, RAM and main storage device which I upgraded to a 1TB nvme drive and put a fresh copy of windows on there. What seems to be happening is that every 7-10 days, maybe once a week, I'll go to turn my PC on and nothing happens.. power light doesn't come on or even flash, no fans, nothing. Even though the lights on the motherboard are still on and doing their RGB stuff. The only way I can get it to start up again is to press the reset BIOS button on the back of the motherboard, then it starts up straight away! However this is a little annoying as it obviously wipes all of the settings I've changed in the BIOS for my overclock etc. This happens when the PC has only been off for maybe 4-5 hours sometimes and there's been no signs of the system failing anywhere else when it's turned on, so it's super weird to me! Below is a list of all the components and drives in my system, I'm really hoping someone has an idea as to why this would happen as from my perspective if there was a failure somewhere then I'd expect to see it happen when the system is on? specs: Mobo: ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Hero X570 (updated to the latest BIOS from a few weeks back) CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5950x @ 4.5GHz RAM: Trident Z Neo RGB 64GB GPU: EVGA Superclocked GTX1080 PSU: Corsair RM850x 850w Now I've got a lot of drives as I use this as my editing rig as well as gaming rig, so I split the work over multiple SSD's to pull footage and comps faster Sabrent Rocket PCIE 4.0 1TB (Boot Drive) Samsung 850 evo 250gb (Old boot drive) Samsung 750 evo 250gb kingston SSD 500gb Sandisk SSD 500gb 1tb HDD for footage archive/offload 2tb HDD for mass game storage any ideas would be greatly appreciated, I really want to stop having to mess around with this thing every few days just to get it to post! thanks in advance Craig :)

i'm looking for something with a lot of usb slots, doesn't really matter what gen they are as nothing requires 10gbit that i have (not yet at least), currently have 8 usb on the back but i'm having to use a few on the front i/o as well.. 1 pcie gen 4 x16 for GPU, 2xNVME gen 4 for my storage as well i'm looking at ATX format as i always have full towers

i really should have started looking in to this sooner than the day before release.. procrastination strikes again

Feels like i'm going to be playing the lottery twice in one day then... first off to actually get a CPU and then to get sent a motherboard that hasn't been sitting in the warehouse for a few months

i'm really struggling to find anything at the moment, this is insane

no don't worry i'm not looking at budget boards haha, it just seems impossible to find any that are ryzen 5000 ready to go out of the box and it's confusing the hell out of me.. and the issue i see with bios flashback is i'm not sure whether it works without having a cpu in the socket or not?

Doesn't that just seem insane for them to pretty much be releasing this all new powerful line of processors as an "upgrade only" path rather than a new buy in for users to swap from intel to AMD?

Hi All, I'm planning to buy a 5950x when they release tomorrow (haha, good joke i know) but i'm a little concerned about motherboard support... They've been shouting from the hill tops that the x570 chipset is going to be supported for zen 3, however they've also been putting it everywhere that they'll need a bios update prior to putting the new chip in the motherboard for them to be able to work. so my question is, what happens when i buy a new Ryzen 5000 CPU and an x570 board brand new, without having a previous Ryzen 3000 CPU to perform a bios update? none of the uk retailers have updated any of the x570 descriptions to say they are compatible with Ryzen 5000 so i'm assuming all of them need BIOS updates? do i need to play it safe and find one with a bios flash feature so i can flash it from the USB port as soon as i turn it on? thanks in advance for any insights!

Yeah I’ve tried mate, looks like if I were to have nearly any other model other than the 700d I’d be fine as magic lantern would have the feature I need!

Hi mate, I don’t want to have to keep on remembering to press a button every 20 minutes in order to keep my camera on, that was the point of this apologies for the confusion thanks for the link as well, but the advice there is incorrect as even with the auto power off disabled completely it still shuts down after 30 minutes of no buttons being pressed

Hi all, does anyone here here use their canon 700d to live stream with?? I’ve got everything set up fine but I’m struggling to get the live view to stay on for longer than 30 minutes which is how I capture the video feed from the camera. Really need some advice on how to get this to work, I’ve tried magic lantern but for some reason their sticky halfshutter function isn’t available on the 700d which would have solved all my problems! ive also looked in to writing an LUA script for magic lantern that tells it to Half press the shutter every 20 minutes as this would keep the live view active, but I suck at coding and I can’t get it to work any help or suggestions would be great!

Sorry guys, budget really is as cheap as possible, we're in the UK and he only wants to use it for low end gaming doubt he'll even use it to surf the web etc as he'll stick to doing that on his phone haha as long as it can run the sims without it stuttering then he'll be fine i have no knowledge on older tech though as I've only built my own pc which is skylake based, so don't know what performance is like for older chips etc. If he could do do it for £250 that would be great, and then whatever monitor you would recommend for probably less than £100 to go with it

Hey guys, My mate wants to build a pc the can handle any iteration of "the sims" that he can throw at it Any recommendations? Would like to do it as cheap as possible, doesn't need to be high details, maybe just medium He will also need a monitor Thanks in advance !

Has anyone got this on PC? The servers are finally up but I'd like some homies to play with more strategically

Makes sense in my opinion, quite a lot of the time the Nintendo has fell behind because of its lack of 3rd party support, why do they lack the 3rd party games? Because their consoles aren't powerful to just handle a port of the game, they'd need to be dialled down. Only thing is, if it's only when plugged in to the dock that his has the power to run these games then you have to question whether it truly is a home console that's portable as you would only be able to play first party games on the go... quite to a lot of people still went and got the xbone and PS4 rather than a wii/wii u because of the graphical capabilities, they bring the switch in line with the other consoles for when it's docked and boom, you've killed 2 birds with 1 stone

holy sh*t, how the hell did i not spot that on amazon for £491?! that's an incredible price!! If no one comes back with any other recommendations, that'll be going straight in my basket. :') cheers dude

Hi All, I'm starting to get really p*ssed off with nvidia's shadowplay, by far one of the best "free" screen recorders in terms that it can record 4k at 60fps, but i'm just having so many problems the latest of which is something you can't tell is happening until the recording has finished. at the moment what appears to be happening is that it records in the resolution of my second screen, even though i have set the record res in the shadowplay setting separately to be the same as my primary monitor. this means that the recorded images come out all squashed and distorted and completely unusable, which is extremely annoying after an hour or so of recording as it's just wasted time and footage. does anyone know why this might be happening, or how i could permanently fix this/test it before i spunk an hours worth of time up the wall for nothing? i do test records, with the game and all my other apps open prior to starting the real record and sometimes they turn out fine, and then the real record messes up and i can't tell until i stop recording and review the footage. PLEASE, PLEASE JUST HELP MEEEEEEEEE

Hi All, I'm having a little bit of trouble finding a "decent priced" ultra wide monitor without it being super ridiculous, all I'm looking for is something to improve my productivity when creating video content somewhere around the 34" mark preferably with a higher refresh rate than 60Hz, 75Hz would be ok and anything higher would be a bonus my price range would be anywhere under £650-£700 mark, please note it is in £'s not $'s and this would be the absolute top end i could afford so if you can save me some ££ that would be great any help to find something would be absolutely awesome, so thanks in advance!

Because he's obviously seen the light

Most games will support your controller now mate, or at least new ones will, you just need to plug it in to a USB port and let windows install the drivers in terms of ease of transition, really not that hard, will take you a week to learn the basic layout of a keyboard and have your fingers sitting in the right places and then if you don't like a particular layout for a game at least you can change it to whatever you want so it all falls under your one hand hope that helps

Sometimes you just crap out with the silicone lottery mate, that's the way it goes is this the board with the preset overclocking functions? could be that it isn't delivering enough bolts for the clock speed it's trying to aim for, but doubtful if it's a prebuilt manufacturer overclock as they would have rigorously tested it on chips to make it as stable and as safe as possible

I'm glad to see we're in the same boat brother, I'm desperate for that fibre connection just for the upload speeds

Looking at these forums make me realise just how bad my internet is ? You're here moaning about this, but where I live in Birmingham, U.K. They haven't cables fibre and there's no 4G alternative so I'm stuck with 18Mbps DL and 0.7Mbps UL ?? and thats considered "good" by our providers!

Hi all, need some help/advice on building a budget gaming/streaming pc for my friend. I think it's fair to say I'm not new to this world but only familiar with the "latest and greatest" computer tech as I had a big budget for my own build, so was wondering if you could help me piece together something that would have been cutting edge for a while ago that would fall in to budget need a whole system, pc = £400-£500 monitor = £100 all help is appreciated guys

I'll give that a whirl when I get home buddy, thanks for your help might post some some pics to this thread if I get stuck haha