SonOfaMonkey

You’re right, and I do know that’s an option. I’m afraid, though, of waiting on an RMA, only to discover it’s not the PSU.

I’ve been dealing with this issue since about a month or two after I built my PC in February of last year. When it’s running, it’s generally very stable. However, shutting it down/putting it to sleep often causes the PC to not be able boot up unless I unplug it from the wall and plug it back in (or flip the switch on the surge protector on and off). This is annoying because I like to use my PC remotely and leaving it on all the time wastes power. So here’s my build: Ryzen 5950X CPU RTX 3090 FE GPU 128GB 3600mhz Patriot RAM Asus WS ACE x570 Mobo 2TB Samsung 980 Pro boot drive NHD-15 Air Cooler Be Quiet! Pure Base 500 case (6 fans) Be Quiet! Dark Power Pro 1200w PSU Add in cards: Blackmagic Decklink 4K Studio, StarTech dual USB C card (sata powered) What I know so far: 1) It isn’t my surge protector, tried with and without. 2) I thought maybe it’s brown-outs while the PC sleeps, because it’d be fine sometimes when I leave it, but next morning the sleep LED is off and no boot… but I can now reproduce the issue myself by running a heavy load, such as PUBG or a Davinci Resolve render, and immediately putting the PC to sleep afterwards. 3) I checked all the power plugs in the PC, and it’s all wired from my PSU correctly. 4) I checked my case power switch connection and it looks good. 5) Reset CMOS and BIOS and issue persists. 6) When PC is in this zombie state, power is still being supplied to connected devices, such as Ethernet lights, and USB device idle lights. 7) When in this state, neither the power button, mouse click, nor a Wake On Lan signal will rouse the PC. Only power cycling. 8) A red indicator light on the Asus mobo comes up when I catch the power crash happening, and also right after power cycling. I figure it’s something shorting or going wrong either either my PSU (which is very high end), or my motherboard. But what?

Hello! I'm considering spending my retirement money on an Optane P5800X lol. Would love to use it as my boot drive, but here's my quandary: I don't want to remove the PCIE cards i have installed, and the U.2 connector on my X570 mobo goes to the chipset. I have a Samsung 980 Pro on an M.2 slot going straight to the CPU, so I have the raw sequential speed of the Optane already, but I'd like the P5800X for the better latency and consistent random + long term performance. Will the chipset introduce latency that's significant, or bottleneck me in heavy use? I worry since have a GPU, 2 more PCIE cards, 2 NVME M.2 drives, and 4 SATA SSD drives plugged in, along with a bunch of USB devices. An alternative option could be to use an NVME to U.2 adapter for the P5800X, but I've only seen PCIE 3.0 version from Startech, which would definitely bottleneck the Optane.

Ok, so it seems I'd be limited to 2GB/s total on an x2 slot since it would revert to PCIE 3.0 mode. Tangential question: Are there any downsides to putting that x2-limited M.2 in Raid 0 with an x4 U.2 mobo connected drive? Not for a boot drive, but as a storage drive and maybe I could get faster speeds than either drive alone? Or would it ruin random read/write with the mismatched PCIE lanes and connectors?

I have a PCIE Gen 4.0 x570 mobo with a PCIE 2x M.2 slot going to the chipset. I'm wondering if I can put a Gen 3 NVME SSD that's rated for 3.5GB/s on the M.2 and get the full potential of the SSD, given that PCIE 4.0 is 2GB/s per lane? Or will the NVME SSD only be able to take advantage of 2x lanes in PCIE 3.0 mode at 1GB/s per lane, since NVME drives are set up for x4 lanes?

Of course this wouldn't me a mobile option like a new M1 MBP, however perhaps you could go ahead and build your PC, and then when required, run MacOs in a virtual machine from a separate drive partition of Linux? This isn't beginner stuff, but Linus has a video on how to set this up on the main channel. Though I find Snazzy Labs makes it look simpler: I'm actually interested in this for myself, and would like to know if the optimization MacOs does for some programs like Resolve would carry over to a VM setup like this? It would mean having 3 OSs on one machine to choose from, and the ability to use custom parts...

I'm curious, why would that be? My motherboard seems to support 128GB RAM at any speed, and the kits exist (or else I could slap 2 64GB kits together). Unless you mean specifically finding heatspreader-less ram in 128GB. I'm leaning toward Patriot Viper Blackout sets, since I don't mind their look, and their spreaders look easy to remove if wanted. Though I wonder if the RAM PCB is actually the standard 32mm height without the spreaders, or taller? The NH-D15 I'll be using has a strict clearance compatibility.

Any resources on whether some brands run cooler than others and don't need a heat spreader at these speeds, perhaps the Corsair LPX mentioned above? I'd want to be safe about it if I'm gonna void a warranty on a $500 kit. That's what I'm afraid of...

That kit kinda be ugly, though that kit would actually be my first choice if I decided to try removing the heat spreaders, since they seem pretty basic. Anyone have experience trying this kinda thing? What you're saying about the branding makes total sense. I also looked at ECC server memory since my mobo supports it, but it's all green and low speed lol. R9 5950X with ASUS Pro WS X570-ACE mobo. Timetec DOES have 128gb kits, but only in sodimm form factor or green PCB, both at 2666mhz speeds.

First poster here! I'm planning a build, and my aesthetic choice is hampering my RAM selection a bit. I really love the internal look of the 2013 Mac Pro. Not the shape, but the modern industrial, no-frills, but simple and somehow pleasingly unified appearance. Image below. Easy enough to get a plain-looking black motherboard. The issue I'm running into is that my only options for RAM appear to be on the low end and very high end, and neither with the exact specs I want; those being 128GB, 3600mhz, 4x32. 1) Timetec https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0829F67JY 2) ...Apple? https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MX1J2G/A/64gb-2x32gb-ddr4-ecc-memory-kit The Timetec kits don't go past 64gb and only have that in 4x16, so I can't combine 2 2x32 sets. Plus the timings aren't the best and appear to leave little room for tweaking according to reviews, since the 3600mhz kits may in fact just be the same kits as their 2666mhz versions that can overclock to 3600mhz anyway? Unclear. And the Apple kits are obviously overpriced, and I'm not certain at all if they'd even work as 2 kits of 2x32. Don't know if they can go higher than their weirdly low speed ratings either. I would just buy regular gaming RAM and remove the heat spreaders, but that would void any warranty I'd have supposedly. Timetec has a lifetime warranty, so they say. Any suggestions for alternatives, or gaming kits that have been shown to not need the heat spreaders at all? Thank you for indulging my clearly OCD build aesthetic.