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I think I was on a very tight budget when I originally built the PC. Except mainboard and RAM pretty much every component was used.

I hope these help. XMP profiles 1 and 2 don't seem to differ on the surface, but I didn't check every little detail. I'm currently running XMP profile 2, time will show whether it is stable or not. Is that generally something I can configure? And if, would that even make any sense? Are you saying that the whole topic only really matters if you want to squeeze out every last percent of optimization? If for productivity and stability purposes this isn't of much relevance, I'll probably just live with it.

Hey guys, I decided I'd upgrade my PC which I am 99% of the time using for productivity work nowadays, such as Lightroom and Photoshop with occasionally editing some videos. I upgraded my Ryzen 5 1600x to a Ryzen 7 5700x. In addition, I upgraded my RAM capacity from 16 to 32GB. However, while I don't intend to OC everything to squeeze out every last bit of potential, I'd still like to optimize things such as activating XMP and slightly undervolting the CPU. My GTX 1070 is OC'd since a few years and running stable. The RAM sticks however seem to have different DRAM manufacturers. I've read about this a little bit online but am still confused. Now I'd like to find out whether or not I should go through the hassle of exchanging my new RAM kit in order to match my previous kit's DRAM manufacturer. Here's the stats that I found using CPU-Z: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 3000MHz C15 XMP 2.0 CMK16GX4M2B3000C15 DDR4-2998 CL15 What's different is the DRAM Manufacturer. Two sticks are Micron, the other two are Samsung. I am not sure right now which are which, but I suppose I could find out if it matters. Now the question is: Does this matter? Am I okay running XMP profiles with these kits that are almost the same? Are there any caveats? I read a lot of different and partially strong opinions and low key which I didn't stumble upon this topic. Also, should I enable XMP profile 1 or 2? In my MSI B450M Pro VHD Plus BIOS both rofiles have the same specs. One more thing I just noted: The RAM should be CL15. However, CPU-Z says it's running CL16. Do I need to configure something differently? Thank you all and sorry, I know this topic has been covered before, but if someone could break it down so that I can wrap my mind around it that would be fantastic. I am struggling with all the information out there.

I haven't switched between GPU manufacturer's myself yet, but I am pretty sure this shouldn't cause issues. However, I'd advise you uninstall the drivers of one and then install the drivers of the other to make sure that everything is clean. A tool designed and often recommended to remove GPU drivers is DDU: https://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html

Make sure to update crucial drivers though, such as chipset and graphics. Otherwise, you shouldn't run into any issues.

No, there's no monitoring software running at all. However, tomorrow I will try ending all processes that aren't integral (Afterburner, some audio stuff etc.) and see if that brings any changes. I also tried running Process Monitor today, but I was struggling with the software a bit as I found it difficult to derive which processes are accessing the drives. There was pretty much only Explorer.exe, RuntimeBroker.exe (again) and System.

That is exactly how I have set it up, as stated in the initial post.

Hi everybody, HDDs randomly spinning up is probably a topic the more active users have seen before. Unfortuantely, my research didn't help me find a solution. More information: I have checked the event log and seem to have found the cause. Whenever an HDD spins up, there is a new entry in the security protocol, categorized as "Special Logon", "Logon", or "User Account Manangement". However, as I am not familiar with such events, I have no idea how to proceed from hereon and I haven't found anything on the internet regarding this. Does anyone have an idea of why there are these events, how they might correlate to the spin-ups and how I could set stuff up to prevent that from happening?

@Mark Kaine I just read through the article you shared. Unfortunately the descriptions only partially match my friend's issue. What also seems a bit odd is that only few are affected by an update - system doesn't really seem to play a role. My system isn't as powerful as those of some in the thread you shared, but the game runs very smoothly. Also my friend is the only one experiencing issues in our group of four, so I wonder if a specific update could really cause issues for only part of the playerbase, but that is nothing I know much about. So still, might be game related. But even if the game's menu/lobby is just open in the background, CPU load is at 85-95% all the time. I'll keep digging. Might also be worth trying a different game for comparison. We only checked the scenarios idle, everything running and only having the call open, so we'll try normal browsing etc. as well. If nothing helps, we might reset the system at some point although I'd like to avoid that. I've read the term memory leak before and will do some research, but could you just give a brief explanation of what you mean by that? @PointOne1 Although the affected system is a PC and not a laptop, disabling Game Bar is actually a good idea, I'll try that as well. This has caused issues for myself in the past as well, but I sort of forgot. Thanks!

@Mark Kaine She's currently exclusively playing Dead by Daylight, and if not that, then Phasmophobia. I wouldn't really call either of those titles "demanding". For checking things we've been using just Discord screen share + some tools (HWInfo, MSI Afterburner, Task Manager). This has worked well so far as she's quite good at following instructions. Should it come to a point where I would actually need access myself, I'd probably try something remote such as TeamViewer. That's a thought I also had. It's really unfortunate I have no information about performance from "before" the issue arose, I just have to trust her there, though.

Actually yes, I forgot to point that out as well. I checked her programs and she really doesn't have much. Most programs are typical Microsoft "crap" and there are very few tools beside that, none of which are suspicious. I didn't ask whether she just recently made any changes, let's see what she'll respond. I got the notion that the answer will be "nothing", though. EDIT: She's using Microsoft Edge as a browser and as far as I could tell she wasn't using any extensions. I'll double check. I've never used Kaspersky myself, I thought it was reliable in finding malicious software. I'll check Malwarebytes, though - it was my impression already that something "invisible" running in the background could cause problems because CPU load numbers in task manager don't immediately seem to add up (i.e. Steam 25%, game 40%, system 5% + several < 0.1% tasks don't seem to be adding up to 95%). I don't know exactly how old the install is, but most likely a couple of years. It doesn't seem to be a hardware problem to me either and I've also considered a fresh OS install, however that would make things a bit complicated as I couldn't just do it myself.

Hi all, I am currently helping a friend troubleshoot her PC, however after trying many different things I am at a loss. Issue For a while now, when she plays, she is experiencing severe stuttering/freezing, resulting in a loss of control over her character. While this initially sounds like a graphics card problem to me, it seems to be the CPU causing the issue instead. Additional information Since we live pretty far away from each other, I can't do any physical troubleshooting, neither is she confident enough to do it herself. So opening her PC up and doing stuff there isn't really an option sadly. Therefore, I am looking for what else can be done before having to go that route. Additionally, her setup is really old. I'd usually say it just isn't capable of running recent games at a high performance anymore, but the problem is that the system was able to run the same game without any issues that it is now struggling with. Specs available I am positive it is the CPU "suddenly" bottlenecking the system as in games it hits 90-100% load while the GPU almost idles at 35-50%. When the whole system is on idle, CPU usage is at 2-10% What we have done Results so far Something we tried without success was changing the game's process' priority from "Normal" to "High" in Task Manager - we received the error "The operation could not be completed. Access is denied". I haven't explicitly checked, but everything else indicates her user account having full admin permission. We found that the Steam voice chat feature costs a lot of performance, increasing CPU usage by up to 25%. However, when using Discord for voice chat (which increases CPU usage by ~5%) the game is still stuttering/freezing. When in game, the game itself takes about 35-50% of CPU usage, while Steam takes another 15-30%. We were able to get the game to run fluently by tweaking the (very limited) in-game graphics options. We set Resolution to 95% and Quality to Minimum. While we could settle with this, I'd really like to find a way to get the PC running just as smoothly as it did before, especially since these settings really don't look great. Does anyone have any other ideas of what else we could try that could have a significant effect? I am running out of ideas.

Hey! I think I am done. I've done so much experimentation, tried so many different tools, it's crazy. But that ride was pretty interesting, I think I know my card pretty well now and I definitely feel far more prepared should I have to overclock another card in the future, which is nice. I want to keep it short, but thank you guys @Mark Kaine and @Alvin853for helping me understand how these things work. If you're interested, here's my "before/after" results. I could've gotten better temps and power values as 0.9 V would've also been an option, but I think that 0.95 V is a good compromise as I am still receiving a relatively significant boost in performance here. If you're really interested, I can share far more results than just these here. Also, this is my current voltage curve.

3D Mark Advanced has proven to be very reliable. With the Fire Strike Extreme Stress Test any unstable overclocks have been identified, even though the tools from my initial post didn't detect them. My undervolted GPU is running on a very stable overclock now. If you're interested in the results, here's a screenshot. It compares Stock to both my old, non-undervolted overclock and the new and undervolted overclock. Although I am getting a slightly lesser boost in performance, the temperature and power draw differences are totally worth it. Quick info for context: I am running a GTX 1070 and a Ryzen 5 1600x and used HWInfo64 for monitoring as well as MSI Afterburner for overclocking/undervolting. Thanks again for hinting me towards the full version of 3D Mark, that purchase has been absolutely worth it. I'll mark this message as the solution for visibility should others be looking for the same thing. Credits go to Levent and DobertRownySr.

I've bought 3D Mark Advanced yesterday and tested the Fire Strike Extreme Stress Test. It has so far been the only tool that recognized +165 MHz at 0.912 V to be unstable. All other tools had no issues with these values, but RotTR crashed 2-3 hours into a gaming session. This was great advice, thank you guys! I'll do more testing and hopefully be done with all this a lot sooner than I was afraid of.