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  1. svmlegacy
    Try the ram you have and see if it works
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    The tablet is a great addition for note taking, but I wouldn't run without having a non-windows machine alongside it. Lots of people run MS Surfaces that will run many of the apps you'll need, while staying portable. I personally ran a home desktop and a chromebook, though.
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    @Kairos Zenith If it's any consolation, I've never seen a BIOS update drop support of any Zen based chip. The excavator based chips, yes, but never my 3000G, Raven Ridge or Dali versions.
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    Upgrading the memory just for faster speeds in usually never noticable
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    It's more to do with the platform itself rather than raw CPU horsepower. That CPU is missing a lot of features that newer ones have (AVX, for example). Just because it isn't at 100% doesn't mean it's not holding you back.
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    There are Core i7's nearly identical to this Xeon. it's not because it's a Xeon that's causing this, it's because it's a 14 year old Xeon. The platform itself is what's holding this back.
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    Is there any chance you're trying to flash the TUF B550-PLUS (WI-FI), or the non-wifi B550M-PLUS bios file? All of these boards have a 3404 version which will not be compatible with your board.
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    Per their policy, Intel does not honour warranties on second hand processors, and typically only warrenties the chips for 3 years.
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    That PC is still young. As long as it's doing the job, keep it running.
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    Ryzen has a "race to halt" approach to power savings, so it will always appear to be above base clock even at idle. Any manual OC on AM4 chips disable downclocking in my experience, so your best bet is just to ensure C-states are enabled and turbo mode is configured correctly.
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    Power thottling is normal and expected behaviour. This will not shorten the life of your CPU. If your power supply was not up to par, the system would crash.
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    The same kit does not offer a guarantee of it working. Might as well save the money. Even in ideal sense, you may need to reduce the speed somewhat to support the extra memory. Pinnacle Ridge's memory controller is not the best - update your BIOS before installation to give the best chances.
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    If there's an OC on the i7, return it to stock values. What PSU do you have, and how old is it? Haswell is old enough that an Original PSU to the build may be failing.
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    Most motherboards today are good until the practical obsolecence of a platform. Generally they either break from abuse (OC'ing or extremely poor cooling), or by the capacitors degrading (Which is very much temperature dependent). 2 - 5 years is very young, even by "tropical" climate standards. I'm curious what the symptoms of a "broken" motherboard are. I would imagine it's often a red herring that shops are capitalizing on. In my experience, PSU's (which are also senstive to heat & humidity) are much more likely to fail than the motherboard.
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    There's no objective best for Ivy Bridge at 35 W. If you need multithreaded throughput, the 3632QM is a very nice chip, but it will not deliver the same single core performance as a 3540M. It's also noteworthy that the 3540M has a higher boost frequency on the iGPU, which is important as well. Generally, the Core i7-3540M will be the best performer, unless you need pure multi-threaded performance. Usually no. In my experience (Toshiba, not Asus), the machine will not POST with a higher TDP CPU installed.
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    This is the configuration you want. You need to have the same amount of memory in each controller (A vs B) to keep "Dual Channel" for the entire memory space.
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    No, That's a Zen 2 chip. The only Bulldozer chips are the Athlon X4's (Not G) and A-series APU's from very early in AM4's lifetime.
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    As long as you aren't on a bulldozer chip currently, you won't brick your Mobo. Update the BIOS and drop in your new chip.
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    Try another PCI slot in the motherboard. Tip on the removing coolers on ZIF sockets: twist the cooler before pulling up, to break the seal between the cpu and the cooler.
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    Yes. Especially on a load like Cinebench.
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    CMK32GX5M2B5200C40 - JEDEC profile is 4800 MHz on this kit. 5200 MHz is only achieved via XMP overclock. This is normal and expected behavior. This is likely unrelated to your issue. A hardware issue is more likely to cause general instability and hard locks rather than crashes to desktop.
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    Contact Verizon support.
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    Installing two drives doesn't mean they join together. Rather, the act as two seperate storage devices. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/disk-management/initialize-new-disks
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    As long as you aren't overclocked it won't harm the CPU, but you're definitely losing performance.
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    8th/9th gen techincally use the same socket, but are incompatible with 6th/7th gen systems. Apple could have done anything to the firmware, the safest upgrade would be a i7-7700, with a chance of a 7700K working.
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