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Hi I recently bricked my motherboard after purchasing a new r7 5800x. Since I need a new mobo anyways, is it recommended to just refund the new cpu, and go am5? I was thinking this was I would atleast be better off for gaming and have more upgradability in the future. If I were to upgrade this would be what I would upgrade to. https://pcpartpicker.com/list/ZdL4YN

hi so i took my ram out to install my new gpu to have more room. i ended up taking the cooler off to fit the radiator in the top of the case, it's a hybrid gpu then once i put it all back it won't boot so i take my ram out and reseet. Same problem i try 1 Stick in slot 2 it works i try the other in the same slot it works so both sticks work i slots 1 ans 3 doesn't work then i try 1 stick in slot 4 does not work i'm lost here idk what to think of this any ideas ? I removed the ram profile at the start of this too

Hello everyone, I own an Asus M509DA laptop with 12GB of RAM (4GB soldered onboard + 8GB in another slot). Lately, I've been facing RAM shortages while working with large Excel files. I'm considering upgrading the additional slot to a 16GB 2400MHz RAM. Before making the purchase (which is non-returnable), I'd like to know if my laptop supports this upgrade. I'm uncertain about the maximum RAM capacity my laptop can handle. Can anyone provide guidance on whether this upgrade is compatible with my Asus M509DA laptop?

I recently upgraded to am5 so my specs are: 7800x3d, rx 6800, 32 GB ddr5 6000, b650 tomahawk wifi. I have had long boot times (62s) since the upgrade from a 5600x. I recently enabled the automatic and GPU overclock which requires a restart. After shutting off, the PC did not boot. All lights and peripherals are on. I have a light signalling CPU and ram error on MB. I reseated the ram and it did nothing. Unsure where to go as I cannot boot into windows so recovery mode or any sort of software stuff is not possible as it will not post at all.

So I have this post with suggestion I got suggested some overclocking stuff for my ram instead of getting new ones I added screenshots there and I will add them here for the changes I made, After I made these changes my PC restarted and now just loading I see nothing on the screen and the pc noise is louder than usual BASICALLY: I need to know do I force turn off my PC or what do I do now?? Here are the changes

Country: Jordan Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: League, Valorant, R6, Gta V. My pc setup can be found on my profile Most important my motherboard is ROG STRIX B350-F GAMING, I have currently one 1TB HDD(wdc wd10ezex-22mfca0 )and 1 480GB SSD (kingston sa400s37480g) Currently, I am shopping on citycenter.jo, I noticed their sale is good and I everything I own is from there, this SSD caught my eye https://citycenter.jo/clearance/storage/samsung-990-pro-1tb-pcie-4-0-nvme-m-2-2280-internal-solid-state-drive-ssd-up-to-7450-mb-s But while I was scrolling the 2TB SSDs I saw this Kingston SSD KC3000 that had insane sale and I was wondering if its worth going from samsung 990pro 1TB to Kingston 2TB https://citycenter.jo/clearance/storage/kingston-kc3000-2tb-pcie-4-0-nvme-m-2-ssd-up-to-7-000mb-s And for RAM, I currently have 2 2400MHz 8GBs sticks Wanted to take advantage of this sale and get 2 sticks of any of these options I am not sure though how the mix up in speed would work on the PC Thanks a lot for the help!

Look at this ... Is it even worth it I mean

Hello, a few months ago, I bought the HP Omen 25L with an i7-13700F and an RTX 4070ti, and upgraded the RAM to 32GB. I initially had issues with XMP, as it simply wouldn't activate through the BIOS. Last week, I managed to activate XMP at 5200 MT/s. Everything was working fine this morning. In the afternoon, when I turned on my PC, I noticed that booting into Windows took quite a long time. In the Task Manager, the RAM speed was back to 2000MHz. I've now set it to XMP Profile 1 in the BIOS 10 times, but the Task Manager still shows 2000MHz. CPU-Z and CMD both display different RAM clock speeds. Which one is correct? I'm even considering replacing the motherboard because HP's BIOS is simply AWFUL. Can anyone recommend a good Micro ATX motherboard with LGA1700 socket and DDR5 that isn't too expensive? The RAM sticks are 4x Kingston Fury Beast 8GB DDR5 each, specified at 5200 MT/s. Or is there anything else i could try ? Thanks in advance for any replies.

Ok so I installed new ram upgraded from 2 x 8 16gb Corsair lpx vengeance ddr4 2400 mhz to 4 x 8 32gb Kingston fury 3200mhz after installing the new ram I got a black screen saying that a new cpu or memory was installed and to press F1 to configure I believe or F2 to continue with preset so I pressed F2 and then it went to bios and kept looping never reaching windows and now I'm here the rest of my specs are. CPU: i7-6700k GPU: EVGA 3060 MOTHERBOARD: b150-a gaming pro PSU: 800w Corsair

Hya! Last year I upgraded my setup, by building a new pc with parts, and since then I had all sorts of non-stop problems (system freezes, total system crash, bsods, application crashes) with this system. After I've tried numerous fixes and changes, gpu driver versions, windows installations, cmd commands, stress tests for cpu gpu or ram, bios settings, even a different Motherboard, i've concluded that my RX 6700 (non-XT) that I had at the time was the culprit (I have loads of details about this "saga" as well), thus I've RMA'd it to the shop I bought it from and got another GPU, a RX 6750 XT, and after that the system was much more stable and the problems seemed to have gone away. Until now. Last week I found the same RAM I had, at a good price, so I went ahead and bought another kit, since I wanted to get more RAM down the line anyway (I only had one 2x8GB kit in my PC until this point). RAM gets to me, I install it next to my current sticks, and theeen... disasters. On the first day I've installed the RAM I kept getting Windows Crashes and System freezes on a 2 hour cooldown. "Well shit, i guess i have bad RAM, time to RMA". So I started testing the RAM with memtest86 (since I already had the stick ready, from the "bad gpu" troubleshooting era before this), and sure enough, with all sticks installed, after letting it run for the whole night, I had the test FAIL with like 40 errors, what's curious though is that when looking at the adresses and GB sector of each error, I had errors on ALL slots, but mostly the last slot. Good. Ok let me just remove the good ram, that I had before, and run the test again only with this "bad" ram. For the purpose of easier clarity: Before this, the initial sticks were placed in slots 2 and 4, in Dual channel mode of course, and i've read it's better to have the last slot occupied to avoid some sort of "echo" effect or something related to the motherboards and the way they are designed. We will call the above configuration of occupied slots - "default". Tested the good sticks in default configuration - Passed, 0 Errors - to provide a baseline. Tested the good sticks on the other slots - Passed, 0 Errors - to check faulty slots. Tested the "bad" sticks in default configuration - Passed, 0 Errors. - huh? Tested the "bad" sticks on the other slots - Passed, 0 Errors - nah this isn't real And finally, I put all the sticks in the same configuration as I had them on the first day, when I got the errors and the system crashes, and let it run over night. - 10 Hours, 7 Passes, 0 Errors. Well, shit. I was so much in disbelief that I thought maybe the XMP profile somehow got disabled, so since it's not on OC speeds, the RAM is much more stable => no errors, but nope, XMP profile was enabled, exactly as I had it before. There's also something else, once when running memtest86, I had the PC just reboot itself without my input, interrupting the test completely... After that day and all those tests, I couldn't draw any conclusion so I just kept using the system as-is, with all RAM sticks installed. After 3 days of the system running just fine, with no problems, now they started to popup again: CS2 Crashes mid game, straight to desktop. Ready or Not crashes while in mission. Hell Let Loose crashes while playing a match. System freezes accompanied by forced reboot Windows blue screen. The Blue screen i've been getting is not quite "normal", it's only on half the screen, the rest being black, and it's very glitchy, the same section is visible like 3-4 times, on the same screen. As I'm writing this article, I kept trying to play Ready Or Not but It crashed 3 times in like 50 minutes, CS2 also crashed again today....so I capitulated. Is the RAM good for my system/cpu/mobo? - From what I've seen there shouldn't be a problem. Maybe it's a defective Mobo? Are AMD systems this bad when it comes to stability? - I've heard they have somewhat of a bad reputation, before the purchase, I didn't think so at all, but after all these months of pain, I don't know what to believe anymore... Is this maybe related to the "bad" GPU I've had? The symptoms are very very similar... maybe that poor RX 6700 had no fault... Could I have gotten "better" parts? - Yes, sure, these are not the "best" parts or brands known for the best quality or "premium-ness" of their products, but I'm not a guy who needs to play the latest and greatest on max settings. I'm a simple PC gamer, I don't mind doing optimizations getting my hands dirty and lowering settings.... Besides, it's more efficient to go for a mid-range build money-wise, the jump to high end is waay more expensive and you don't get much more "bang" for the buck. - So that's why I've chosen these parts/brands, and none of the chosen brands scream "problems" to me. They are not the best but also not the worst. Mid-range! PC Specs: System age - Hardware: 10 months, 18 days System age - OS: 5 months (I went through multiple Windows reinstalls recently...) OS*: Windows 10 22H2 x64 bit, Desktop, Retail CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600 3.5GHz CPU Cooler: ID-Cooling SE-224-XT V2 Black RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX Black 16GB DDR4 3600MHz CL18 Dual Channel Kit - CMK16GX4M2D3600C18 x2 (meaning 2 of these 2x8GB kits) GPU: Sapphire Radeon RX 6750 XT MOBO: ASRock B550 Phantom Gaming 4 ATX PSU: Seasonic B12 BC Series, 80 PLUS Bronze, 750W Storage: 1x SSD WD Blue SN570 1TB(System) + 1x SSD Samsung PM981 1TB(Storage) Monitors: 1x Asus PG279Q@144Hz + 1x LG 24GM79G@144Hz, both connected to GPU, thru new Displayport cables I swear this is some Jayz2Cents troubleshooting video where he finds the weirdest most insane issues.... like that GPU Bios version mismatch.,,, I've decided to finally seek help, because I am tired, I am fed up and I don't know what to do anymore. I have no idea what is wrong with my system, it could be connected to the stability issues i've had with the "bad" GPU before, maybe the GPU wasn't even bad and it's the same problem but with different symptoms... I just want it to be over In Event Viewer on the fateful day when I first installed the new RAM, there were LOADS of DistributedCOM, Bits-Client, and also a few Kernel-Power errors:

Hi there, I have ordered these parts and most of these have arrived now. Though I just watched a video yesterday saying how the arctic cooler has clearence issues with ram and so does the case, and I’m worried that it’s not going to fit, if so, does anyone have any recommendations around a different cooler 240mm since I want it to be top mounted. list for build, keep in mind, cl36 was used instead of cl 30 https://au.pcpartpicker.com/list/Lw866D

Ive just upgraded my ram from 8gbs to 32gb and upon booting my pc certain colors would flicker green or red, I dont believe my monitor is the cause of this. I also tried updating my drivers but that didnt help with the problem .I would appreciate any help on this issue. here is some information about my pc: motherboard: b365m ds3h gpu: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB cpu: intel i5-9600KF monitor: acer vg240y the ram i tried installing : Patriot Viper Steel 32GB KIT DDR4 3200Mhz CL16

When i try to wake PC from sleep, the fans start spinning but the display and peripherals don't get any signal. I changed the ram slots being used, At first the issue was solved. But now it is happening again. Not always, but many times. It it matters, the cpu is an i7 2nd gen, with a Q67 chipset.

This may sound a little wild and sinful, but can a server (EPYC or Xeon) or just a workstation, use 666GBs of RAM and run fine (I will use games and chrome)

Hi all, I currently have G.Skill Flare X5 32GB 6000MHz CL32 in my system. I'm adding another 32GB to the system. I have tried to find a stockist in the UK with this kit in stock but with no luck. My question is, can I use another brand as long as it has the same speed and timings? 6000mhz CL32-38-38-96 1.35v TIA P.s Mobo is in sig

I'll make it really simple and quick: I'm completing a PC Build with a 12400f, 6750xt. I had two choices when it came to buying the RAM: 1) DDR4 32GB 3200Mhz CL18 2) DDR5 32GB 5600Mhz CL46 Both were at the SAME price (i live in italy). I bought the DDR5 CL46 one, and now i'm worried for the High CAS Latency. For almost entirely gaming and a little video/photo editing, is my DDR5 5600 C46 better or worse than a DDR4 3200 C18? Have i really made that bad of a choice or it was the better one performance/cost wise?

Budget (including currency): 200ish $USD Country: USA Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Autodesk Maya, Destiny 2, Forza 8, Cyberpunk (most intensive games / programs) Other details: Cpu: 7800x3d Mobo: MSI x670e Carbon Gpu: Evga 3080 ftw3 Nearly complete with my pc upgrade from a 3600x on a Asus prime x570e with 32gb of ram to the aforementioned 7800x3d which i will be using primarily for gaming and 3D work. Often i use up all 32Gb of ram when working in Maya, sometimes even more when working on scenes that ask for more ram leading to long load times. The questions im faced with are a few- Looking at 32gb x 2 (6000mhz CL30) now, but may buy the same kit in the future for a total of 128gb (32*4). Will the cpu handle this? Will it force me to drop my mhz to become stable, loosen timing? Should i buy slower ram like 5600mhz with looser timing and save a few bucks if thats the case? Does it even matter? Will gaming performance be that much different when going from 64gb of fast ram to 128gb of slower ram? Maya will love it, it loves ram, but what about gaming, even noticeable? Those of you who do have 128gb, whats your set up? 32*4, 64*2, 128x1. What about the speeds youre running? Kits on mind: 6000mhz CL30 kits G.skill Flare ($200) https://www.microcenter.com/product/668981/gskill-flare-x5-series-64gb-(2-x-32gb)-ddr5-6000-pc5-48000-cl30-dual-channel-desktop-memory-kit-f5-6000j3040g32gx2-fx5-black G.skill Trident ($220) https://www.microcenter.com/product/664697/gskill-trident-z5-neo-rgb-64gb-(2-x-32gb)-ddr5-6000-pc5-48000-cl30-dual-channel-desktop-memory-kit-f5-6000j3040g32gx2-tz5nr-black Corsair Dominator ($289 If only i could get this ) https://www.amazon.com/CORSAIR-DOMINATOR-PLATINUM-Compatible-Computer/dp/B0C5M5P3N4/ref=sr_1_8?crid=3QJGGZ1BAPETJ&keywords=corsair%2Bdominator%2Bddr5%2B64gb&qid=1700976732&sprefix=corsair%2Bdominator%2Bddr5%2B64gb%2Caps%2C96&sr=8-8&ufe=app_do%3Aamzn1.fos.304cacc1-b508-45fb-a37f-a2c47c48c32f&th=1 5600mhz CL40 Kits: Corsair Dominator ($235) https://www.amazon.com/DOMINATOR-C40-40-40-77-Optimized-Compatible-Performance/dp/B0BHVFWMBH/ref=sr_1_14?crid=3QJGGZ1BAPETJ&keywords=corsair+dominator+ddr5+64gb&qid=1700976732&sprefix=corsair+dominator+ddr5+64gb%2Caps%2C96&sr=8-14&ufe=app_do%3Aamzn1.fos.304cacc1-b508-45fb-a37f-a2c47c48c32f G.skill Flare ($190) https://www.microcenter.com/product/674068/gskill-64gb-(2-x-32gb)-ddr5-5600-pc5-44800-cl40-dual-channel-desktop-memory-kit-f5-5600j4040d32gx2-rs5k-black Motherboard spec sheet concerning ram if this helps. Thanks in advance!

Hi, I want to upgrade the ram on my build but I don't know if it is worth it. Will I get more FPS/Better stability/Better 1%s if I do it? The build: Ryzen 5 3600 CPU Asus TUF Gaming B450 PLUS II Motherboard. RTX 3080 GPU (just in case) 20Gb of DDR4 RAM running at 2400Mhz The Ram I currently have installed, is a mix of old ram that I salvaged from another PC (1x4Gb 1x8Gb) and one that I bought a year ago (1x8Gb). One stick (8Gb) is limited at 2400Mhz, while the other two (8Gb+4Gb) can go up to 2666Mhz. Games that I play: GTA V/Online Fortnite Cities Skylines II Euro Truck Sim 2 Emulation (NSW, Wii, WiiU) I'm thinking of upgrading it to a Lexar 32Gb (2x16Gb) kit running at 3600Mhz with CL18 latency, that I found on amazon. (like replacing all the old sticks with these two) Thanks in advance.

I have a Gigabyte Aorus b450 wifi pro that I used for a while with an AMD 3700x and 4x8(32Gb) of RAM. I recently decided to upgrade some parts and one of them was the CPU to a 5800x, well I did the BIOS update not knowing that it could create issues of incompatibility for the RAM if I did not install the EC FW Tool prior to the BIOS update. I tried installing it afterward but had no success since it keeps failing the install. Now I can only use 2 DIMMs at a time for some reason. My only solution at the moment is to downgrade the BIOS to a previous version and with an old CPU install the darn tool and after that upgrade the BIOS once more and finally install the 5800x to make work the RAM (trying to avoid that solution if possible). Any suggestions??!!

Hello , I’ve currently been having an issue where my pc can’t run like any games for more than 1hr without crashing to windows … I have an i9 13900k , rtx 4070 , Rog strix z790 e gaming wifi mob, 64gb of 6400mhz ddr5 corsair rgb ram ,… and an evga 1000w gold plus psu … whenever I load up apex legends or csgo 2 or call of duty my pc crashes to windows before the game can fully load up .. what could be the issue ? Because I’ve had the pc less than a year … I lt hasn’t done anything like this until recently within the past I’d say 3 months I can’t even play the new lethal company game for more than 30 minutes without my pc closing the game ..

My PC is old , lowend and has these following specs: Psu inplay 200 rated 800 generic power. Amd A8-7680 8gb 1600 RAM hyper x (dead) 4gb 1600 RAM teamgroup (dead) 2gb 1333 RAM idk No gpu 128 gb SSD 250gb HDD I was using my PC for some light gaming and school works for quite a long time. I love to tweak its settings and download softwares, I tried adjusting settings for ram and turning on channel interleaving and such. Just last month my pc has been encountering BSOD frequently (kernel_power) . Then i changed my psu to a slightly better one . After that it seems that my PC is good as new and running well i also reinstalled windows 10. While playing Farlight(low settings and is not a demanding game). I , again encountered a BSOD (critical process died) then my PC restarted and booted just fine. It rarely happens (at first) then I tried to troubleshoot it , I deleted AMD radeon (the launcher that i downloaded) because that is where the dump file from bosd lead me to. I uninstalled it and everything seemed fine for a few days. I decided again to experiment and shit after few days. Ive downloaded gigabyte center , and this is where the chaos started. I installed the update for amd radeon graphics driver (i believe ) as well as easy tune. I ran easy tune and it doesn't seem to work ( i also think i dont know how to use it) . After that i restarted my pc because the app says so, to my surprise my pc fans spun and lit up but it doesn't boot and read peripherals , at first i thought it was the motherboard but I asked for help on reddit and someone adviced me to check the ram and alternatively test it oneby one and slot by slot, and i did. My 8gb ram turns out to be dead, I didn't know what happened but I thought it might have something to do with the Gigabyte app center. After ive known that the 8gb ram was faulty i then removed it and used my spare old 2gb ram with a different frequency then tuen rank and channel interleaving again. Again everything was fine . My dumbass again (today) tried to update and install shits like SIV and @bios update from Gigabyte app center . My pc restarted then it booted up , then i thought maybe it wasn't the problem after all. I played farlight again and suddenly BSOD (critical process died) again and i thought it was one of those BSOD that isn't severe but no , it was , my 4gb ram is now also dead and the one that survived was the 2gb . This the current state of my PC it only had 2gb of ram running windows fkin 10. What do you guys think? I really cannot troubleshoot it and find the root of all of this (except for me lol I am theone that did all of that shit). Could it be the PSU?,Channel and rank interleaving?,Gigabyte app center?, Virus?, RAM?, or Other hardware problem? Also I cannot upgrade to an entry level or higher PC yet. Pardon my grammatical errors

CPU-Ryzen 5 5600G, Motherboard-ASUS PRIME B550M-A Wi-Fi, 8GB 3200Mhz x2 (dual channel) RAM. I Need ram upgrade and I don't know 16GB 3200Mhz dual channel is better or 32GB 3200Mhz dual channel cause I will use productivity applications and AI model training. And also 5600g only support 16gb 3200mhz x2 or 16gb 3200mhz x4. ???? I am confused

Budget (including currency): $120-150 for motherboard, $20+ for RAM upgrade (i'm ok with buying used) Country: Belarus Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: No plans to play anything newer on this system, software development for now, running NAS with a bunch of docker containers and a linux vm. My MSI X470 GAMING PRO died couple of weeks before, so now i have a hand me down b350 (it's a super cheap MSI board) with ryzen 3700x from a friend (with an idea that when i get new MB i gonna sell his stuff and pay him, with no need to rush though). I'm planning to do full upgrade in about a year from now and use this mb+cpu+ram in my NAS. Right now i'm looking for two things: motherboard and possibly RAM upgrade. For motherboards i'm mostly looking at ASRock B550M Pro4, but concerned with polarizing opinions and reviews. I want to be able to overclock as much as possible for this budget (i have an NH-D15 and pretty good airflow with 5 140mm case fans). Also as it's gonna be working 24\7 (without overclock) later in NAS, better VRMs look appealing. I'm mostly concerned about ram OC capabilities (some people write that the fail to get even 3000 xmp) and bios options (as my MSI X470 kinda had a really bad bios). Also want to leave myself an option to later upgrade to 5900x-5950x (like really-really later when 3700x would be insufficient for NAS\Server use case). With RAM, i now have on my hands 4 sticks of G.Skill F4-3000C15-8GTZB (8gb SK Hynix) and 2 sticks of Kingston KHX320C16D4/8GX (8gb), with 4 sticks i'm able to run them at 3200 16-17-17-34 (tRC 55). So my question is, are there some go to bang for the buck 16 gb sticks by now so i could have 32gb with just 2 sticks and have higher clocks (as far as i understand i 3700x should be able to run with 3600+ memory). If it's much more expensive than what i have now i'm ok with what i have, but if it's like $20-30 to get from 4 sticks at 3200 mhz to 2 sticks at 3600+, i'm already gonna sell a bunch of hardware why not do a little upgrade.

Hello everyone, i was thinking of upgrading the ram of my computer, My current system is: Motherboard Asus Prime B450M-A Ram 2 x 8GB 3200Mhz A-DATA XPG Gammix D30 AX4U360038G18A-SB30 Cpu Ryzen 5600X i was looking trough some offers and saw a kit of 2x16GB 3600Mhz but if im not mistaken my motherboard only supports 3200Mhz Ram's Would there be a problem with this? i also saw a kit of 2x32GB a bit more pricey but it had a speed of 3200Mhz Thanks in advance.

My Device: lenovo legion 5 15ach6h spec: ryzen 7 5800h rtx 3060 130w 16gb ram 1tb+500gb ssd My Device has 2x8gb ram.(sodimm 3200mhz) Both ram is: Samsung M471A1G44AB0-CWE(sodimm 8gb 3200mhz). Now I want to get a Gskill 16gb stick with the same config. My question is If it will work with the 8gb samsung ram. like 8gb samsung+16gb gskill.