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But why would it crash after I am done playing for some time? If my psu was lacking wouldn't it crash during a game? Also, why would it not crash when I play more demanding games like cold war? My brother has an identical build to me and he has not run into any power related problems?

My pc is freezing/crashing and it appears to only do so after I play VALORANT for a while. I can play other games all day and it doesn't crash. However, I keep running into this problem and it seems to only happen after I play valorant for a while. After getting off valorant it will run fine for a while and then sometimes freeze/crash randomly. The other day it crashed and upon booting back up, logitech ghub did not remember my dpi and mouse button assignments (never happened before). Just now it froze and went to a black screen with (no signal input) but the pc itself did not power off. Instead, my gpu lights started blinking on and off. The q code on the mobo was 8 which is apparently insufficient cpu power. (I have both 8 pin and 4 pin plugged in for the cpu power). My temps are fine and I have not noticed them being out of the ordinary (corsair water cooler). Usually they are 30-38c (across nvme ssd, gpu, and cpu) at idle and around 45-55 across gpu and cpu while playing. I ran a memtest and did not get any errors. I do have the latest gpu drivers as well. I do not understand why it would give a code for insufficient cpu power if it crashes after I am done playing and close the game. Wouldn't there be more demand (and therefore more power draw) during gaming? Specs ASUS crosshair hero vii Ryzen 7 2700x (4.0 Ghz) 3090 fe (no oc) evga 750 g3 Corsair vengeance rgb pro 3200 mHz 2x16 Windows 10 64 bit

After further looking, it seems I was drastically mistaken about my memtest results. I have replicated the results (100+ fails) again and have decided to reach out to Corsair since their DRAM modules carry a lifetime warranty. Even if they are not the culprit, am I mistaken to think they are in a failing state? Would it be okay to continue to run them? The articles I found have claimed that any amount of fails is unacceptable, but I do not know how dated that information may or may not be. I am clearly a newbie based on my previous "ram seems to have passed the test" remark.

I just reset the cmos, and I did use argus monitor for custom fan curves. I just bought a Corsair H150i to swap in case my cpu cooler was on its way out (I have been looking for a reason to upgrade anyway). I did not notice any damage anywhere on the motherboard at all. I am running completely default bios settings now, and my ram seemed to pass the memtest. Hopefully it was a wonky bios setting I changed? or possibly a faulty/dying wraith prism cooler? Unfortunately, the issue is (hopefully was) very sporadic and I will not be able to tell if it is fixed until it either crashes some day or I forget all about it.

I downloaded and ran MemTest86. During the test it said there were 134 errors, however at the end of the test it said 100% Pass. I took pictures of the two screens showing a summary after. However, in the summary screen it said it only passed 2/12 tests, even though there are 13 tests and the in-progress screen reported 100% pass after they were all done. Sorry for the absolute potato pictures.

First off, sorry if this is a common issue. I have done some research, but I seem to only find posts about people who have laptops or generic "computer went bad" answers. Also, sorry if the answer is glaringly obvious and I am just naïve about it. ISSUE So, my computer has randomly started shutting off. It first happened about a month ago randomly, and the motherboard gave a q-code of "8", which correlates to some CPU problems (potential voltage drop, clear cmos or re-flash bios?). Since it only happened once I didn't think much of it. However, it has started to happen again. It will randomly freeze for a second, and then the screen turns black and pc will shutdown and reboot itself. Also, awhile ago my cpu fan randomly stopped spinning? I was doing homework and realized my case fans were unusually high, took a glance over at my case and the cpu fan was dead still. The temps were only around 50c so I just shut off the system and rebooted. That has not happened again since then, at least that I know of. While rebooting after a crash the case fans (4 noctua NF-A14s, and stock 2700x cooler) will ramp up and down repeatedly, and will give a code AA after booting back up (according to asus "Qcode AA means the system has transitioned to ACPI mode (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) and therefore handed over to the OS") which seems to be normal. The motherboard (Crosshair hero vii) does not give a q-code now as to why the system has crashed. Upon rebooting this most recent time I got an error code along the lines of "CPU FAN error too low", or something (cpu temps stay below 65 even while gaming, usually 60s while gaming and 30s-mid 40s at idle, so I have no reason to believe the fan is failing other than the situation above. I was dumb and didn't take the time to snap a picture or really memorize what it said. The only other weird thing was when I opened a link in an email (It was from my college, so no fishy business there), and the google tabs that were open started to lag EXTREMELY bad. I could see the animation of the tabs at the top open and close. The blue shape when click-dragging around on the desktop was also laggy. I am unsure what could cause this, and would love any help in determining what could be happening. Also, sorry for the absolute wall of text, but I want to include anything that would be relevant to the person/people who take the time and try to help. Other Stuff that may be relevant? When I first built my PC (Around August 2019 I believe) I had to update my BIOS so that my Motherboard would be compatible with the ram. Since then I have not done anything else except for take the GPU out (friend wanted to try it in his build), and even that was many months ago. I have dabbled with OCing my cpu and ram, but nothing major. The furthest I went was 4.3-4.35 Ghz on cpu using a guide from an OC forum with the same mobo and CPU. It wasn't stable so I backed down to 4.2 Ghz which was completely stable in all applications, workloads, and games. I ran that for a few months until this started happening and I backed it down to 4.0 Ghz thinking maybe it was the culprit. I left the CPU voltages to "Auto" or "Default", and changed the ram speeds back to 3200 Mhz from 3400 Mhz. For PC specs (potentially most relevant) CPU- Ryzen 7 2700x Motherboard- Crosshair Hero vii (No wifi) PSU- EVGA 750 supernova G3 (750W Gold) (probably not relevant but don't want to leave it out in case it is important?) GPU- RTX 2080 (MSI gaming x trio) RAM- Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 16gb (2x8) 3200 Mhz Running Windows 10 Home from my Samsung 860 Evo If there is anything else that would be of use to help trouble shoot this problem please let me know. Thanks in advance for any help!

There is that possibility and more than likely it is what is happening. This has been my only pc so I don’t know how well to compare what I should get from performance and what I am getting. The main two people I play with have the same gpu (1080ti ftw3 iirc?) except one has an 8700k and the other has a 2600. The buddy with the 8700k gets roughly 20+ more fps at any given time than we do, and until he changed some graphics settings to help me get more fps he was getting around 120 at any given time. With my lack of knowledge I guess it could be a “Ryzen thing” although I feel like some other games lack the performance they should too. But maybe I expected too much.

According to rust my ping is 49. I also double checked through windows and it came back as 51.

There were no errors found. Edit- I am also going to check with samsungs tool just to be safe. Samsung Magician tool also says the drive is in good health.

I have not but I will. I will post the results when I find out. Any suggestions on the best tool/way to do so? I am searching for the best way but figured I would ask as well since some of the different benchmark/stress test tools that turn up in my searches have gotten bad reps.

ISO? (not sure what that means.) I downloaded the "windows media creation tool" or whatever the exact name is and loaded it onto an external drive, then when I was first starting my PC I booted from the external drive and went through the setup to install the OS on my ssd. Sorry I am not sure of all the exact terminology. Edit- Thank you so much! I am fine if due to some reason my hardware just cannot perform any better. I just feel like its not using all the performance it can. Although I do not have any solid reason to believe so other than constant low GPU usage and it never leaving the base clock of 1515. Which if i am correct is due to the low usage.

it is fresh install of windows. installed it from an external drive onto a brand new ssd 8 months ago when building my pc for the first time.

Great to know. Thank you! As far as map size it isn't too big of a map. Its somewhere in the middle of rust maps I would say. I have certainly played much much larger maps with better fps, and much smaller ones too. Someone did say that this custom map has more objects loaded in at all times compared to other maps which is why everyones fps is lower. it just seems mine is consistently lower across the board compared to others. Even when compared to builds that are significantly more "low end".

I am using a sata ssd. (Samsung 860 evo). My internet is adequate for gaming. 100mbps down I believe and I usually don't have any problem with lag or lag spikes even while other people in the house are streaming movies. I had a friend suggest maybe my ssd is on its way out, but could that even affect fps in a game.

Yes. I used DDU to uninstall them as well.