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Awesome thank you so much

I have a Ryzen 7 3700x and 16gb of 3000mhz ram. I've been using Adobe after effects and seem to be completely maxing out my ram utilization very quickly. So I'd like to upgrade to 32gb (for now, hopefully 64gb later.) The exact same 2x8gb kit I have is on sale for cyber monday right now for $45-50. So my question is, should I just pick up that kit and have the 32gb (4x8gb) of ram for adobe after effects, premier, photoshop. Or should I wait until I can upgrade to a 32gb kit of something faster (3200 or 3600mhz) If the extra ram speed won't make a huge effect on adobe products then Id like to just take the cheap route instead of spending $120-140. I know Ryzen likes fast RAM but that usually seems to be in relation to gaming and I rarely game so not sure if it's still as important with a video editing rig. Thanks in advance!

Gotchya, I was looking at ddrescue for a bit until I realized it was linux and mac only. And it's been so long since ive tried to boot into linux on anything other than raspberry pi, might be worth a shot though. Thanks!

Ah so basically so there's no way to repair the bad sectors (if there is any) or anything like that? I've heard of hdd repair tools would any of those be any use here? Or am I pretty much just going to have to choose to get a data recovery service to get the data for me or lose my data?

So I have a 1TB external WD my passport ultra (it's blue), that I think was dropped at some point, but Im not entirely sure. It is maybe 2-3 years old. And has been in storage for a while. Well I went to get some of my honeymoon pictures off of it, and it not acting as expected. Some folders take 10-15 minutes to load even if there is only a few files in there. Some just cause windows explorer to stop responding and crash. When in the root of the drive and attempting to xfer a 1gb folder of pictures, it starts to transfer at around 350kb/sec then drops to 0, then maybe to 10kb/sec back to 350kb/sec then 0 kb/sec. This is all via USB3.0 (I am using usb 3.1gen1 port off my motherboard, but the drive is only rated for usb3). The time remaining for the 1gb folder is just over an hour. And has crashed a few times in trying to just let it run. I do get some photos transferred, but there a few that seem to be troublesome. As well as the other folders on the drive just refusing to transfer at anything over than 0kb/sec. I have tried other usb ports (3.0, 2.0) as well as another computer, and different cable. Anyone have any ideas on what I could do? Could a data recovery software help? I try to look them up and it seems to be focused on deleted data, which is not my issue. And if I look up dropped hard drive it focuses on drives that won't even boot up. Any help is greatly appreciated guys!

UPDATE: For anyone who may this thread later on, I ended up replacing the motherboard and that did the trick. I guess something happened with trying to use the g.skill ram or trying to use 2 different sets of RAM (I promise I will forever remember this, and NEVER EVER try anything like this again.) But I tried a different set of RAM entirely from the two kits I talked about still with no luck. Tried replacing the motherboard and that did the trick. So either the motherboard fried at some point with the RAM switching, or it was a crazy coincidence. But either way, hope this helps someone in the future and enjoy your day!

So for the last 36 hours I have been having an issue where my new (month old) computer will not boot past the ROG splash screen. The option to load into UEFI by pressing del or f2 appears on the screen, but pressing either of those buttons does nothing. The only thing I can do is ctrl+alt+del which just restarts everything and then it happens again, or press the power button on my case, which if restarted results in exactly the same thing. Backstory: Now begins my troubleshooting efforts! Things I have tried, in no particular order: Tried the known good ram sticks (adata) one stick at a time in each memory slot. Tried the g.skill memory 1 stick at a time in each memory slot. Reset the bios settings by shorting together the clrtc pins as described in mobo manual Removed cmos battery (at first for a few minutes) but since have tried to remove it over night with power cable removed and power switch in off Boot into safe mode by force restarting my system 3+ times Unplug everything except the monitor unplug all internal hdd/ssds except boot drive boot with no ram in mobo (i correctly receive a yellow light on mobo, i do not receive this light if there is any ram in any slot) start pc while holding del or f2 to immediately boot into uefi None of this has resulted in ANY other symptoms other than previously described. The only new thing was I correctly received the yellow light on motherboard when I started with no ram, this status light is green during everything other scenario. I wish I could give more info like error codes or something specfic I was doing or running while this happens, but i literally cant get any info out of this thing (as far as I know) other than, its stuck. Any additional information that is requested please just ask, even if you don't think you could help me, any post here will help my sanity with this whole situation because I feel like I just broke my new $1000 rig just because I was curious with mixing ram, which I know is bad, but I just thought worst case scenario i'd get a blue screen (CHECK!) and then be able to reset bios settings and move on. Not completely brick my system! System Config: OS: Windows 10 pro 64-bit BIOS: Newest BIOS update 2801 (released 09/24/2019) I updated to this about 2 weeks ago when it came out, never had issues CPU: Ryzen 3700x Motherboard: Asus Strix b450-f gaming motherboard RAM: Ram as described above GPU: Zotac gtx 1070 PSU: Corsair tx850m 850w PSU CPU Cooler: 120mm aio Storage: 512gb m.2 sata ssd (boot drive) it's some toshiba non-nvme

Thank you all! It ended up being software related and embarassingly for my all I had to do was turn it off and turn it back on again! By that I mean uninstall the app, delete all associated files, and then reinstall the program and then its been smooth as butter, thank you all for the help!!!

I am not entirely sure how to tell that, I know in task manager is shows the CPU being utilized by 40-50%, figured it was lower than the 100% utilization on my laptop because it wasn't something that should take 100% of a 8core processor. Maybe it should be higher then 40-50%?

I did yeah, the Septemeber 10th update that AMD announced (or maybe this was a rumour) that fixes the boost clock thing is not available for my motherboard yet, but it is up-to-date with the most current one on Asus's website.

I edit with Filmora (Still working my way to Adobe Premier!) and I have been doing so on an Alienware 15 r3 2017. It has a: i7-7700HQ GTX 1070 (mobile) 16GB RAM @ 2400MHz 256gb NVMe m.2 ssd (which I edit off of) Nothing too fancy. When I edit, it would start to get really laggy as I add more to the timeline (cuts, B Roll, transitions etc) like unusable, but before that I could playback the clip and it'd be extremely smooth and I could hit space and it'd freeze the playhead exactly where I am at. No lagginess until later on when my timeline was filled up. Now the problem is I got a new computer as I could tell my CPU was heavily bottlenecking me during editing. New PC Specs: Ryzen 7 3700x Zotac GTX 1070 16GB Ram (was at 3000MHz until I read the "read this before you post" which said to reset all overclocks, so now it is at 2666MHz 850W PSU 120mm AIO strix b450-f motherboard Editing off a m.2 SATA 512 SSD (not nvme yet) Now I built this PC purely for light video editing, and I am trying to edit the same project I was editing on my Alienware laptop and the playhead will jump 10ms at a time (not smooth) and if I hit space it'll stop about 10ms past where I hit space at. This is with no edits on the timeline, just playing back footage. I had playback at 1/2 resolution on both, and moved it to 1/4 on my new desktop to see if that would fix the issue. Still extremely skippy. I have preview rendered and created a proxy on both systems. The footage is all 1080p. All my drivers are up to date inlcuding my BIOS (version Version 2704) and nvidia driver from Sept 10. I have no idea why it is doing this, it did the preview rendered leaps and bounds faster than my laptop did, but its extremely annoying how laggy the playhead is. Just the actual footage itself does not lag, its just the playhead on the timeline. Did I just have my expectations to high and realistically can not edit 1080p video with the ryzen 3700x and gtx 1070? Any input would be greatly appreciated, thanks guys!