TwilightRavens

Is the card still in warranty?

Try booting windows into minimal mode (selective startup) and see if the issue persists. Could also try Diagnostic startup, but I can't remember if it'll load the GPU driver or not.

It sounds like either your RAM or fclk is unstable, but RAM will usually throw a bsod.

$160 or less I would consider fair for a 980 ti, though yeah a 1070 would be better because of the 8GB of VRAM vs 6GB.

Are there any background processes using the GPU?

Have you tried DDU and reinstalling the drivers? and also making sure in the Nvidia control panel the power plan is set to adaptive.

I’ll post a ZenTimings screenshot next time i’m at my computer. XMP calls for 1.35v, and the main timings are 16-16-16-16-36 was running 1.5v from when I was running 2 sticks at 3800 C14.

Oh right, I forgot about that part for signaling quality on the motherboard, better sticks in the worse slots and bad ones in the good slots.

fclk is synced to the memory frequency, so 1867 with 3733MHz RAM, and have validated stable fclk with 2 sticks at 2000Mhz (DDR4 4000).

So as the title says I've been having a bit of trouble trying to stabilize an overclock of my RAM and was wondering if anyone could suggest anything I can try. Memtest errors within 5% into the test Specs: AsRock X570 Taichi Bios 4.80 (I am aware that the memory topology of this board is Daisy Chain and is geared towards 2 sticks of RAM, but I have heard it should still be able to hit 3800MHz) Ryzen 9 5950X 4 x 16GB G.Skill TridentZ Neo 3600MHz C16 (Dual Rank b-die) I am also aware they are different batch dates but I have validated them separately in 2 x 16 sets and they can hit 3800MHz) I've also tried: SoC up to 1.2v VDDP up to 1.1v VDDG IOD and CCD up to 1.12v and none of those were able to affect anything, and am I missing any voltages that I should be adjusting?

Yeah honestly I'm seeing two different speeds, CPU-z looks like its reporting 1866MHz and tack manager seems to be reporting 2400MHz. According to google, your CPU in that laptop supports up to 2400MHz and I assume its non XMP so you would need a JEDEC 2400MHz kit. For 16GB get this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01BU77LQW/ref=emc_b_5_t For 32GB: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01BU77M4I/ref=emc_b_5_t Neither are JEDEC 2400MHz though as far as I'm aware. Can't guarantee that those will run at 2400MHz, but this would since this is JEDEC: https://www.newegg.com/p/0FC-00KP-00001

WHEA error is usually memory related, so a good place to start would be to reset bios to default and run memtest86 if you can find a way to get around the no post, but honestly I'd blame the failed post on a dying mobo.

Linux Lite is a Windows "feeling" version of linux, its probably one of my favorites because it works right out of the box without any tinkering. It also can run on a machine with 768MB of RAM and a 1GHz CPU.