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My stupidly overpriced and probably a waste of money custom loop says otherwise....

There are a large number of vendors to buy kits from such as G.Skill, Crucial, Corsair, Team, Team Vulcan, and Kingston but there are very few memory manufacturing companies. Memory modules consist of two pieces: DRAM Semiconductor Chips (Responsible for storing data) Printed Circuit Board (Connects the memory chips to the rest of the computer) There are only a handful of semiconductor manufacturers with the capability to produce DRAM chips, and they are Micron (Crucial), Samsung, and Hynix. The best currently available chips are Samsung B-Die. In general to find these, look for a kit rated at 3200MHz (C14).

How would you rather people test the difference between GPUs? Using a less powerful processor could lead to potential bottlenecks thus could make, for example, an RTX 2070 appear on par with an RTX 2080.

What motherboard do you currently have?

PCPartPicker Part List CPU: Intel - Core i7-9700K 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor (£364.98 @ Aria PC) CPU Cooler: EVGA - CLC 280 113.5 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler (£129.89 @ CCL Computers) Motherboard: Gigabyte - Z390 AORUS PRO ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£167.99 @ AWD-IT) Memory: Team - Dark Pro 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory (£149.59 @ Overclockers.co.uk) Storage: ADATA - XPG SX8200 Pro 512 GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive (£82.34 @ CCL Computers) Storage: Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£36.78 @ Aria PC) Video Card: MSI - GeForce RTX 2080 8 GB VENTUS Video Card (£623.46 @ Ebuyer) Case: Corsair - Carbide Series 275R (Black w/Tempered Glass) ATX Mid Tower Case (£54.99 @ Amazon UK) Power Supply: Corsair - RMx 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£77.99 @ AWD-IT) Total: £1688.01 An i7-9700K with a relatively achievable overclock of 5GHz when paired with an EVGA CLC 280 and Aorus Pro will decimate an i7-7700 - We're often talking margins of 20% at 1080P:

All software along those lines are virtually useless. The best way to have your system, specifically storage drives, configured is to allow for "regular" re-installation of your OS. For example, in my case the only things stored on my main drive (Samsung 970 EVO) are the OS, software, and games whereas personal files such as documents, videos, pictures, college work, etc. are stored on different drives or using cloud services. This allows me to re-install my operating system virtually at will without needing to worry about spending hours backing things up. You may not want to do this too often if you have potato internet obviously.

Is it one game in particular or all games?

In general, one would go with an Intel based system over AMD when it comes to gaming but in this instance, with your budget and current market prices, the better decision would be to go with AMD in order to budget more towards the GPU. I would go with the Vega 64, the RTX 2070 is a ridiculously priced card for what it offers over the RTX 2060, and a Ryzen 5 2600 instead of your i5-9600K and RTX 2060. The Vega 64 basically stomps on the RTX 2060 in most titles:

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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 2600 3.4 GHz 6-Core Processor (£137.50 @ Aria PC) Motherboard: Gigabyte - X470 AORUS ULTRA GAMING ATX AM4 Motherboard (£130.35 @ CCL Computers) Memory: Team - T-FORCE NIGHT HAWK Legend RGB 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory (£129.59 @ Overclockers.co.uk) Storage: Kingston - A400 240 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£27.00 @ PC World Business) Video Card: Gigabyte - Radeon RX VEGA 64 8 GB Video Card (£388.48 @ Ebuyer) Case: Thermaltake - Versa H22 ATX Mid Tower Case (£38.48 @ Amazon UK) Power Supply: SeaSonic - G 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (£66.82 @ Amazon UK) Total: £918.22

I wouldn't waste money buying a single other part before you rule out the operating system. Reinstall the OS and see if the problem still persists.

Do you have a second graphics card to use and see if the crashes persist?

When you start approaching the region of 1.45v you probably are going to experience degradation to a certain extent. But if you're an enthusiast do you really care if your chip lasts seven years as opposed to eleven for example?

Leave everything on default in the bios (i.e. disable XMP, any overclocks, etc.) and see if the system still crashes.

https://www.amazon.es/G-Skill-tridentz-pc4-25600-Platform-f4-3200c16d-16gtzko/dp/B01JUB8T5W/ref=sr_1_49?__mk_es_ES=ÅMÅŽÕÑ&keywords=16gb+3200mhz&qid=1555841696&s=gateway&sr=8-49 The above kit is better than the two you linked (3200MHz @ C16) and they are virtually the same price on Amazon ES. 1.45v should get you C14/C15 at 3200MHz.