Specs:
Ryzen 5 3600
GTX 1070ti
32gb (4x8) Corsair Vengeance LPX C15 3000mhz
ASRock B450 Steel legend
WD Blue SN550 nvme (Windows install)
240gb Kingston savage
1tb toshiba drive, 4tb toshiba drive
So yesterday I hopped on my PC after doing some slight overclocking the night before (boosted CPU to 4.3 from the 4.2 boost clock using an autoclock, boosted GPU +70 core and +100 memory which was a stable clock that I had used before, and enabled XMP on my ram as I didn’t realize it was off and previously just had it clocked to 3000 MHz), and about 20 minutes into playing some games my PC blue screened. I decided I should just revert the clocks for now as I didn’t exactly have performance issues before, I was just trying to squeeze out a bit extra.
Well, I booted up my PC after that and it was getting major video/audio stutters, so I ran the Windows Memory Test after doing some searching and it did say my memory was bad. I then tested each ram stick alone in each slot, and I would still get the exact same video/audio stutters. I was wondering if this could actually be a CPU or motherboard problem, (or even something else), as I don’t want to spend 200$ on new ram just to find out that it doesn’t fix anything. I’ve tried updating all of my drivers so I don’t think that is the problem, but at the same time every issue I’ve run across seems like it’s either caused by bad ram or bad drivers.
I should mention; the CPU and motherboard are fairly new, about 6 months old. 2 of the ram sticks are 1 year old and 2 of them are 3 years old. I’ve had no issues at all with them before this though.