Anomnomnomaly

I updated to 19.4.1 and haven't had the error come back... So I'm kinda reluctant to upgrade it again at the moment. Did you make sure to fully clean out any old drivers? I don't know what card you switched from... but when changing a card you should try and remove any remnants of the old one... Even more so if switching from team green to red.

personally... I think the 570 is going around around 130 these days (depending on your currency and location) and will not be a big enough improvement due to the CPU. You'd actually get better performance if they saved a little extra and went with something like a Ryzen 2400G on a B450 board... no need fo a graphics card as the 2400g will do those DOTA/CSGO and Esports titles just fine... and You've got a platform that can be upgraded later to improve performance... Add a dedicated graphics card, more ram, faster CPU and so forth... You can trickle down incremental upgrades over the next couple of years... and if you buy the odd used part or keep an eye on amazon warehouse deals (you'd be surprised what you can find on there sometimes). It's not gonna break the bank even for those on a tight budget. But at the end of the day... if the current budget only extends to at most a 570... It kinda seems like throwing money away without getting the upgrade that you're paying for. You won't see the benefit of it on that system.

It doesn't make sense for AMD to release the low end anything up to 12 months before the high end... In fact it's kinda suicidal for sales of high end cards. Just look at what nvidia have done... high end first to maximise sales on the biggest profit items... then a slow trickle every few months of lower and lower spec cards until they get to a point where they're releasing cards that are more expensive and 10-15% slower than the slowest 2yr old AMD cards. Given they way AMD has taken on the CPU market these last 2yrs... It actually makes more sense for them to adopt a similar strategy... Release a range of Navi cards across at least 4 price points and refresh a year later with a further 10-15% boost in performance. If the 'alleged' rumours are true about their version of RTX... then you can already see that it's a waste of time having it on anything less than a 2070 and it's barely worth having at all (except for bragging rights) if you're serious about a good gaming experience. I wouldn't pay much attention to the recent news that the VII outperforms the 2080 in Vulkan based titles... in much the same way that I wouldn't give any creedence to performance in the handful of games that actually support RTX either, it'll take a couple more years for the tech to start to mature and gather market penetration. What I'd like to see... is a card to compete with the 2070 across the board at a price point close to the 2060 or lower with at least 8GB, and then a step down of about 20% in performance and price for at least 2-3 more cards... With the lowest end card being on par with the current RX580. What we'll actually get though... no one except AMD knows... All we can do is speculate and have a wish list of things we'd like to see... or people can simply regurgitate the fake crap that's being touted as 'real' on hundreds of fake articles out there. As for me... I built a new rig in Jan, and will be transplanting that rig into my mediaserver later this year after the new Ryzen 3000 series comes out and then making a decision on replacing my RX580, based on Navi Vs Turing Vs Price Vs Performance. I tend to hit the mid/high range at a knock down price (I paid £102.50 for my RX580 2yrs ago thanks to an Amazon pricing error they honoured, and before that paid £146 for an R9 280X... both cards being picked up for 50% or more under normal prices). If the nVidia cards win out... I'll pick up a 2060 or 2070... But I think everyone knows that they'll never win once you factor in price to performance factors.

I've not had this happen for a couple of weeks... and then it suddenly comes back when I boot the PC after being away for a few days... Next time I boot... it doesn't. Totally random when it happens... and I've not updated the drivers for at least a month or so now.

Epic are not the first and won't be the last company to pull a bait and switch... So here's a little story about ubisoft I had recently. Bought many games from them under the 'delux' item... that contained all game DLC (usually not cosmetics) or the season pass... Purchased a game in the last sale, bought the delux version as I have done before. Install, start the game and immediately notice it's missing all oft he season pass stuff... Now I've not played the game, just gone to the launch screen, and immediately exited after no more than a minute or so. Discovered the bait and switch... they'd moved the season pass into another version of the game that costs even more. Contacted Ubisoft through they 'advertised' channels, inform them of what's happened and ask if I can get the season pass inc for the 'sale' price (with the 20% tokens discount, it was only an extra £8)... hear nothing for 2 weeks, by which time the sale ends and the price more than doubles.... So I start a paypal claim... they ignore it... Eventually they respond to my original request and say NOPE.. you've played the game and ToS says that means no refunds... Just some muppet reading from the script and not knowing how to, or not being allowed to use common sense and rational judgement, So as I'm in the UK, I start pointing out the sale and supply of goods acts, and the unfair terms in consumer contracts legislation... CS muppet is completely oblivious to those bits of consumer laws... NO REFUND. Send official complaint... it's ignored. Meanwhile paypal are patiently waiting for Ubisoft to respond... they fail... so paypal refund me. I let Ubi know that I've had my refund and can they please remove the game from my account.... they continue to ignore me. I actually wanted them to dispute the paypal claim, because some one really needs to challenge these ToS in court and have the proven to be unenforceable... Something similar happened with steam, and that prompted a change where they now offer unconditional refunds if you've played a game less than 2hrs. Buy refusing to respond to Paypal, I get my refund and they cut off a potential legal precedent being set. Taking them to the small claims court would actually cost around the same as the game would... but I got my refund and they've not bothered to remove the game. If I'd not got my refund... I'd be boycotting Ubisoft too... and finding alternative ways to play their games. TL:dr... Most game publishers are charlatans and will try every underhand trick they can to take your money and give you the finger if you don't get what you pay for..

It only works on those who are easily influenced... which may well be the majority... I prefer to call them gullible myself. For example... saw the price of an ifixit kit (inc shipping to the UK) and compared with a heap of other kits on amazon UK... bought the one that was unfamiliar but contained most around 90% of the same tools and cost 1/4 of the price. I've been using Anonine VPN for around 5-6 yrs now... I don't need accounting/billing software and I no longer build websites... I am almost obsessed with getting the best value for money vs performance from anything... and I research stuff like crazy before committing to a purchase... Partly because I went through 8yrs of living hand to mouth each month after the 2008 crash and got into the really wise habit of being more careful with my spending, rather than splurging my months wages within the first 2 weeks.

Paid exclusives automatically lose my money... I'm not buying a specific system or using a specific store just because it has a specific game on it. A fool and their money are soon parted and all that. There are dozens of great games out there... I can happily play all of those in the time before any 'exclusive' deals run out... and by that time I'll probably be able to pick up the game on sale for 80% less with all DLC included. I've got more than 200 games on steam, another 30 or so on Uplay and a dozen on GOG... I refuse to use origin because I will never buy an EA game ever, and after being a former support of Epic... they've burnt that bridge now with attempts to bribe people onto their stores with paid exclusives and spyware. I'm not saying I'll never buy another Epic released game ever again... just that I'll never buy from their store.

I wish people would stop using 'free speech' as an excuse for being utter dickheads.

This is already a huge problem... I refuse to use anything owned by facebook... 99% of everyone I know uses FB & Messenger or Whatsapp and so forth... and flatly refuses to use anything else... they've seemingly lost the ability to communicate by any other means... Often complaining that 'you're not on facebook' to me so can't keep in touch. It's almost like they're not aware of any other form of communication exists outside of their tiny narrow minded bubble. To be honest.. I no longer consider them friends... because it's a two way street and when once side demands you use a specific app to keep in touch and they refuse to do it any other way., they've lost touch with rationality and reality and have become a shallow, selfish & ignorant human being... I'm better of without that kind of person in my life.

This is classic... first Epic piss of people with spyware that steals peoples steam info even if they didn't buy the game on steam... Now they steal another game from steam/gog users (and backers) and piss of even more people. Are they trying to out do EA and take the top spot of most hated game publisher? I've not bought an EA game in more than a decade because they're not fit to earn my money (I may play them via any other means I see fit to take advantage of though).. and now Epic is on the same list.

If your monitor has a high refresh rate, and freesync is on... the system will try to insert extra frames to keep the frame rate high... but if the CPU and card cannot keep up... it causes stuttering. Try turning freesync of and see if the problem smooths out. Another trick is turn of DCHP on all monitors and test again. I'd put money on that being the cause rather than a lack of ram or ssd.

Any modern GPU will be pretty much bottlenecked by the CPU... So if you need a DX12 card then work out what you want to spend and find something in that price range. If you don't need DX12, then just pick up something of ebay 2nd hand. Not worth spending money on a new card unless you plan on upgradingt he rest of the kit later on and want to future proof. Also.. you said about the MB not handing off to an AMD card because of the onboard graphics... I've never had a problem with onboard before... my previous 2 systems had AMD 3000 onboard and you just adjusted the bios to prioritise the PCIE slot over the onboard. I still run one of those with an AMD R9 280X as the primary and had an RX580 in the other. As you said you'd be running windows... I don;t see an issue with getting an AMD card, it seems more like an issues with the OS you are using, or you've not adjusted the BIOS (if it's an option on such an old board)

Get the fastest and largest capacity your budget allows. I'd actually get 3200Mhz ram, I have 32GB of the Corsair Vengeance myself.

Well... did a clean install of 19.1.2 and it's still doing it... and not only is it telling me wattman has been rest still... it's now telling me there are 'new' drivers to install that are older than the ones I just installed. It's trying to revert me back to 19.1.1. Starting to think that my next card will not be AMD again.

Well, booted the PC this morning... and got the same message once more 'Global Wattman settings have been restored due to unexpected system failure' No failure has occurred... Fresh, clean install of everything. Games have been runing smooth as silk and I've not had a single game crash on me with this new build. I don't even 'USE' the wattman settings. I tried researching it, and all I can find is loads of others reporting the same thing but cannot find any solution.

Started using Ryzen Master and allowed it to work out the best settings... instead of tweaking from the BIOS as I've always done before. This has resulted in a stable gaming speed of up to 4.3Ghz with a boost up to 4.8Ghz... closing in on 4.9Ghz. Reading as 4874 in HWmonitor. Idle temps have increased, and I'm now at between 40-45 idle with one core hovering around 4.2-4.3Ghz with the rest throttling back to some odd numbers... Core 0 sticks at 4Ghz or higher all the time, Cores 1,2 & 5 throttle back to 2,6Ghz whilst cores 3 & 4 throttle back to 1.9Ghz. Gaming wise... no where near close to bottlenecking on this thing... AC Origins 1440p Ultra settings and averaging 50-60% across the cores, with some in mid 30's and a couple hitting 90%... and frame rates between 50-70fps. OC on the video card is pretty much the same as it's been for ages... Memory up from 2000 to 2230 and gpu from 1450mhz to 1540... I was hoping for more on the GPU but when stress tested it's hitting 82º and the max temp limit I can set it to is 84º

Just an RX 580 8GB. I just did a full uninstall and clean install of 19.1.1 again, and also downloaded 19.1.2 which came out today... So we'll see if there was something screwy with the original install.

New build about 10 days ago, it's been running like a dream with no real issues that couldn't be solved with a tweak here and there to bios settings. But everytime I boot up, I get a notification from the Radeon Settings that Global Wattman settings have been reset after a system failure. Except no system failure has ever happened... System shuts down perfectly every time and reboots just fine. I'm also getting notifications to install a 'new' update 19.1.1... when I have 19.1.1 installed.

the 1600 and 2600 are both Ryzen 5... neither of them is a Ryzen 7... So both have 6/12 cores... so get the 2600 Zen+ on a B450 Board.

Do you really 'need' a 2080 for 1440p gaming... I'm running an RX 580 8GB and game at 1440p without any issues... although my monitors are only 75hz and maxing most games out on high/ultra settings. perhaps a 2070 may be a better option if you 'must' go nVidia and pay the 'apple' tax.

Perhaps it could be resolved with better positioning of case fans, or the addition of more fans, cable management can even help with airflow. What case is it and how many fans? If they're stock fans that came with a budget case... replacing those with better performing ones could be a good start.

Use CPUID HWmonitor and MSI afterburner to keep an eye on your temps, and see how they're behaving... Do you have access to a 2nd monitor, have those running on one screen whilst you play... I'd also recommend CPUID CPU-Z and on the bench tab, give the CPU a stress test and monitor temps. Until you can determine the exact cause of the issue, you could end up going in circles trying to find a solution.

Go into steam settings/downloads/steam library folders... Add libraryfolder and point it to your steam apps folder on the other drive, remember that steam creates a sub folder called 'common' so make sure everything is in that folder. Then it's a case of hit the install button, point it to the correct folder and it will 'discover' the files and download any it still needs. I just had to do that for over 160 games... took me hours as you can only do one at a time.

Most people use their PC on a desk of some kind, so they're sitting on average 3-4ft away... At this distance, a larger monitor just doesn't make sense... and as the majority of people game/work this way... It makes sense for manufacturers to concentrate the focus on what the majority of people are buying. So the larger screens don;t sell as much to offset the cost of developing and manufacturing them... It's supply and demand... the more they become in demand the more they make and the more the production costs come down... and the price follows. Now when it comes to the console side of things, people generally sit 6ft or more away and game on a larger TV... and consoles can't take advantage of the higher refresh rates...as even at 4K they're limited to 60fps... which as far as I am aware, is the max any console is currently doing.

I'll stick with with these for now, it's the best balance between performance and noise... the pump does on occasion spike to 2000rpm and the 120 exhaust has also hit 2100rpm as I've done a little more tweaking. I was having an issue with all 6 cores being at the 4.1Ghz OC and never dropping back to idle... So I did some reasearch and reading and came across some info regarding the windows high performance mode and how it struggles with the way Ryzen CPU's designed. So I installed the Rightmark PPM Panle and adjusted the settings as recommended... and that's resolved the CPU idle speeds.... they're dropping back to 2.7Ghs (ish) on idle and power use has dropped back to around 28W when idle. This has had the knock on effect of dropping the idle speeds of the case fans (PWM) a little, but they do occasionally spin up a little more than before.. But noise levels are decent and whilst I can hear the system it's not that noisy at all... and if I'm watching video or playing games... the noise from those drowns most of it out unless the game requires more cooling power, and not many do with the case, just the GPU fans when gaming.