HarrisonCassidy

I am beginning to think it is my gpu vram. I started noticing small white artifacting on youtube videos. At first I thought it might have just been the video I was watching but I rolled the video back and they were appearing inconsistently showing up only about 1/3 of the time, still showing when the video was slowed down. I booted up a tomb raider demo (known to be rough on vram) I noticed small artifacts quite quickly. My card came pre-oc with 1800Mhz vram, but it will not let me turn it down in manual settings. Curious, I tried the "auto overclock memory" just to see what would happen and the pc instantly crashed. I think the problem has become less frequent since changing cpu to 3600x as the gpu is under not as responsible to handle everything, if that makes sense, or maybe I am crazy. I got the card on price error from amazon.ca and it is still in the return period. Currently the cards are oos, but I think they pop in and out periodically. I think I am going to wait to try to get it replaced as I want to love the card and I love the price I got it for (when it works). After that I think my next choice would be to try to RMA it. Does anyone know if it is a pain to RMA a sapphire card? Worse case I refund the card and am without a desktop until I can find a replacement for a fair price.

I ran ryzen's mem test when I got the ram, and again when changed out the cpu a few days ago, but will go again, this time with memtest 86. The only thing(s) left to change are my motherboard needing to be RMAed, reinstalling windows, or it being my gpu/gpu drivers Sice changing the cpu to 3600x from 1600x on this weekend my crashes have been much less frequent.

No. I am not using four staicks. The ram has been replaced.

Computer randomly has been crashing and I'm wondering if the dump file has any useful information. 5700 xt 20.4.2 drivers b350-f newest bios 3600x 3200 mhz ram This is essentially a continuation of my problems here: 042820-7656-01.7z

"render device has been lost" causing overwatch to crash, upon reopening the game the system crashed, giving the flashing orange post code. Using minimal drivers Reverted motherboard bios to 5216 using the newer corsair ram at 2666 Mhz

Switching the drive Overwatch is on did not work. I have had crashes upon just opening programs.

I have not, but it is getting to that point. I will likely try it over when weekend.

The system is not stable at 2667, with either set of ram.

We might be having similar problems. I am currently testing my memory with ryzen memtest, had an error at 3200, currently running it at 2666 to see if it is stable. Will try again at 3200 to see if the error is reproducible and finally I plan on running my old ram to see if that is stable.

Yes

No, I have replaced the hyperx with the corsair. The corsair is actually 2667 when I first seated it, until I changed it to d.o.c.p standard (hope I got the acronym right) I got the 3200 in anticapation of getting a 3600x at some point. Even when I was running the hyperX at 2667 I was having these issues, but I will try running the corsair slower.

Pre-question: are 5700xt still having bad driver issues? I believe it is part of my problem, but I am not convinced that is my only problem. 1-2 times a day I will get one of: BSOD, screen freezes with the sound playing for a short time before stopping, screen freezes/black screens without sound, and sometimes screeching sound, application crash, soft reset and lastly, resets where the ram light in my post code is flashing until I kill power and restart (the last problem happen(s/ed) on startup or waking from sleep, I will mention that in a bit). Asus b350-f bios version 5220 ryzen 5 1600 chipset 2.04.04.111 (Was overclocked to 3.88hz at 1.35V, at some point during this I returned it to stock) Sapphire nitro+ 5700xt 20.4.1 (I have tried recommended drivers, optional drivers, some slightly older in the 19.0.0 range and the using device manager to download the minimum drivers) HyperX 2x8 gb 2666 Mhz ram (oc to 2993 for a long time, not long ago adjusted timings and oc to 3200, changing everything back when issues started) new ram: Corsair Vengance 2x8gb 3200 MHz (REPLACED THE OLD RAM, I AM NOT RUNNING 4x8GB) CT500M500SSD1 (crucial 500gb ssd main drive) WDC WD10EZEX-75WN4A0 (1tb 7200rpm secondary drive) WDC WD7500BPKX-00HPJT0 (third drive I wiped and pulled from my laptop, effectively empty and I never actually use) BenQ ex2780q (144hz 1440p freesync) Dell SP2309W (60hz 2048 x 1152) Corsair cx750 PSU gskill KM780R, Cherry MX Red keyboard Logitech g600 mouse After upgrading to 5700xt from Vega 56 I started getting crashes, mostly in Overwatch, mostly with the error "your rendering device has been lost" resulting in the game crashing, but nothing else. I figured it was driver issues and hoped that one day it'd get better with new drivers. I played around with the divers having the best success with the minimal drivers going 2-3 days without a crash. Sometime during all this, I went to turn on or wake up my computer (I cannot recall, but it has happened on both) and in the post code it goes red then orange/amber then just remains flashing amber. A quick search tells me that this light is for the ram (there is no way this would be vram would it?). I play a bit of minecraft and afk'ed overnight, and when I got up in the morning I had the flashing ram code again. Frustrated and figuring I probably fried my ram when going to 3200, I ordered a new replacement set, which I got Monday the 13th. I have not had the flashing post code since, but it might be too soon to tell. According to CrystalDiskInfo all my drives are "good" with the ssd giving 96% I recently started running stress test using the Aida64. I first stressed everything but drives, ran for about half an hour and then instability was detected. Unsure what specifically went wrong, but it was time to run things one at a time. I ran gpu overnight for ~9 hours with no problem. Yesterday, I tried running everything again (just incase it is having everything under stress that causes it to crash) and after half an hour I got a blue screen!) Before I forget the bluescreens I have received have been: Video_TDR_Failure (April 2nd) Installed new ram April 13th mid afternoon IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL (April 13, 6:49pm) PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA (April 13 7:35 pm) SYSTEM_PTE_MISUSE (April 14th, 2:30 pm while running Aida64 for ~30min) KERNEL_SECURITY_CHECK_FAILURE (April 14th, 5:13 pm happened at the exact same time as I was restarting PC, the screens started to go dim then bluescreen, and the bluescreen was actually quite dim) Last night I tried to run everything but GPU. My gf woke me up this morning to turn on pc and boot up minecraft so she can play on our world (she plays on my laptop and I play on desktop, so when she wants to play and I don't I just leave minecraft open on one screen while I do my own thing) She told me when she woke up my pc, fans were stopped, so the test had stopped running at some point. But when she woke me up I logged in and the test said it had been running for ~7 hours and no big error message, so I am confused what happened there. I turned on the game and went to bed. She woke me up not 20 min later telling me that the game crashed. My pc restarted on its own and was at the login screen (she didn't see if it was bluescreen or not). My keyboard's marco of right clicking every few seconds was still running. Upon checking my chipset driver and writing this, I noticed my power plan had been changed from ultimate to ryzen balanced. I just changed it back to ultimate. Unsure how long it has been changed. I do not know this for sure but sometimes it feels like problem could persist when clicking from one screen to the other pretty quickly. It might be me grasping at straws, but I feel like playing runescape (3) on the main monitor and watching a stream on the other I have crashes when going from mousing over from one screen on the other to say type something in chat, to get a hang. I don't often watch netflix on my pc but I have had a similar experience with crashes when running that on one and runescape on the other. Almost a year ago I remember having problems where if i dragged the netflix app from one screen to the other I would get a crash. I also notice that when netflix is on the 144hz monitor and runescape was on the second monitor I was getting very bad stuttering on netflix particularly when fullscreen. When switched, they were fine, maybe a small amount of stuttering when in fullscreen. All hardware acceleration is off. I think that is everything to date. I am very sorry for the information vomit, but I hope I have given enough information to let somebody help. P.S. here is the most recent dump file. 041520-7921-01.zip

So recently I noticed my reference vega 56 has been running a bit hotter and struggling a little more, so I picked up some thermal paste (Corsair TM30) and it just occurred to me that if I am replacing the paste, should I replace the pads while I am at it? Is there any worry if the pads don't sit the exact same some depressions in them may reduce contact when I put the card back together? Also would be open to some recommendations of decent pads (looking for good conductivity and a reasonable price:perfomance)

I am running my Vega at 1140p 144hz so at that point it’s not very light for my card ? i just did aida64 for 6 hours last night with state 7 at 1590(default) MHz 1150 mV clock speed and vram to 850MHz with no errors so I think over the next little bit I’ll change either the voltage or clock speed 5 mv or 10MHz each night and stress it again until I get an error then back off

Every once and a while lately my computer has been restarting on its own. It mostly happens when I am playing Overwatch (currently my game of choice) but it seems to only happen when I am entering or leaving a game, ie when the screens are changing everything is loading in or bringing me back to the home page. Another factor may be when I have youtube playing at the same time, such as watching a video while I wait for the que. I am wondering if, in theory, my undervolt is a little low and when it goes from 0 to 100 when entering a game it causes my system to become unstable? Any ideas what else could be causing my instability? vega 56 ryzen 5 1600 ROG b450-f(?) mobo 750W power supply Overclock/undervolt I have since toned down(power limit +50%)

Do you have any idea if using ryzen master rather than the bios to tweak would be an okay work around?

None. Every time I look I get scared with every piece of dust.

Sad Whilst back home my laptop developed a stuck pixel and I almost cried I immediately vesa mounted my benq so I have no opinion on the stand. I find myself playing around with the remote settings quite a but, I don't think I'll ever use the buttons on the screen to navigate the osd if i can help it

When I first built my pc my buddy held my hand through it. We over clocked what we could including the cpu. One day I experienced crash after crash, went into my bios and my cpu had been over volted to something crazy like 2.4V! I dialed it back to default and since then I have been afraid to touch anything cpu related. Yesterday, I decided to start playing around with it again. Stock is 3.6 ghz, so I bumped up the core ratio to 38 to go for 3.8 ghz while setting the voltage to offset by + 0.1250 V for a voltage of 1.3625. Everything looked good, so I bumped up the core ratio to 40 for 4.0 gHz. Didn't work. So I tried for 3.9 and everything seems fine thus far. When all cores are maxed out my cpu is chilling at 60 degrees (My friend gave me an extra deep cool cooler he didn't need). My question is, what should be my next step? Be happy and stop, increase or decrease voltage, try to get a little higher frequency? edit: what are people’s options on ryzen master? Pros and cons of using that vs bios for tweaking?

I like it, but I have nothing to compare it to. I really have liked the colours, I find myself playing overwatch and stopping for a second to admire my medals, they just look different than my old monitors, prettier I just spent two weeks visiting my parents and missed my screen all the while.

Often my gf will be watching tv while I am playing some games and I would like to have the option to have my secondary monitor play the same thing as the just so I can sorta watch tv whilst being on the desktop. The desktop and TV are physically quite close, our apartment is quite small so rearranging things is not an option, and she would kill me if I stretched an hdmi accross/around the bedroom doorway. In my head I think I'd like to try an hdmi splitter on the apple tv, one going to the tv and one going to a wireless display adapter? On the monitor side I am thinking an hdmi switch (it only has one hdmi input) and a wireless receiver? Any problems with this setup? Any suggestions on changes or affordable options?

Acer XF270HU 27" (mincrocenter for ~$290 usd) benQ EX2780Q (amazon, was just on sale for $300 usd)

I hope LTT does a review on this monitor at some point. Most of the "reviews" online are essentially people reading off the spec sheet, with zero tests or what I feel are informed/genuine opinions. I picked it up on black Friday sale, and have been having a great time thus far. Its my first 1440p and my first 144hz monitor. I have opted for the 120 hz (partly because my vega 56 can normally do 100-120 on the games I currently play, but 144hz is pushing it) 10 bit colour (unsure if it is true 10 bit or 8 bit + FRC (is that the right acronym?)) but it gives an option (though it cannot be activated) for 12 bit, which would suggest to me that it is a 10 bit panel? I was particularly worried about ghosting, seeing a bit with the ufo test, but when in game I don't think I notice it at all, but maybe I just don't know what to look for. Going from 75 hz ips to 60hz tn (I sold my primary monitor in anticipation of upgrading) my performance in overwatch felt super bad, missing head shots that I 100% thought I had lines up perfectly (kinda like one of the newest LTT videos) but going to >100 hz my accuracy increased significantly (from awful to pretty bad!) I also think I like the HDRi settings, making colours really pop, but are they just oversaturated? Does it matter if it is if I like the look of it better? Probably not. One thing I am not sure I am sold on is the screen automatically adjusting the brightness. I feel when my room gets dark the screen is overcompensating a little too much for my taste, turning down the brightness to the point that it is difficult for me to see some of the smaller things on screen (items in an inventory) but it seems to me you cannot have HDRi on whilst having the auto-brightness off? One negative is that the on screen display, at least compared to my previous LG, is pretty bad. The menu seems clunky and does not seem to have all the options I had grown accustom to with my previous monitor. The biggest problem with the osd I believe is it has no freesync option, for me its fine, I can use the raedon settings, but I think I recall some comments from nvidia users having problems. Overall I am loving it, but I still playing around with colours daily, trying to find the settings I like the best. If anyone else picked up this monitor and would like to give their opinions, or if you have any questions feel free to ask and I will do my best to answer them! This post kinda changed from asking, hoping ltt could review it to my own mini review . . .

@Princess Luna Thoughts on this? Or should I stick with https://www.microcenter.com/product/478859/acer-xf270hu-27-wqhd-144hz-dvi-hdmi-dp-freesync-led-gaming-monitor My buddy has picked up the acer already, no dead pixles and back light bleed is passable. The question marks on the 21:9 are response times, dead pixles and ghosting. Also, I am told monoprice has crazy restocking fees, so I am scared to take the risk if I get something with defects.

Preamble: I am in Canada, my friend is in the states where he will be picking me up something, testing it for me, and sending it along with my family who is passing by anyway. I just sold my 1080p ultrawide, ips, 75hz. I want to upgrade, but with my budget of ~300-350 usd I know I cannot upgrade everything, and something will need to give. In my head I had picked out 1440p 144hz. I have a vega 56, so I know I probably can't get to that in most games, but would like to choose one or the other depending in the game. What we landed on was 27" 1440p 16:9 144hz ips Acer for $300 but microcenter also has a TN variant for $230 and while I do appreciate ips, I do not know if it is worth an extra $70 usd to me. I enjoy shooter games, but do not perform to a high level, so anything from 1-5ms screen would be fine to me. Colours from ips are nice, but I do not do any colour critical work, so that is also flexible, The third option is the LG monitor, VA 1440p 16:9 32" 144hz VA for $250 that is going to be on sale from consto on dec 2nd, if it can be ordered before it's sold out. Since selling my ultrawide revently, I have been left with my secondary monitor Dell sp2309w, 2048 x 1152 (uncommon resolution, I know) and I find myself hating it, missing the field of view and immersion of the ultrawide, which makes me worried if I get any of the above monitors the feeling will persist. Maybe it is just the shock of going from a dual monitor setup to one for now, losing 2/3 of my screen space. Any suggestions on an ultrawide I should be considering? (300-350 usd is ideal budget) and or what my concessions should be, either resolution (which I think is my highest priority), refreshrate (I would be happy with 100 hz on an ultrawide, but might settle for 75 hz again) or panel type (I think I am open to all three?) Or should I go to 16:9? At which point I still will need to choose between tn, ips, and va (hard knock life)