Graphics and RAM Issues with New Build

[Tamagatchi]

Hi.

 

System:

AMD Threadripper 1950X 3.5GHz

ASUS ROG Zenith Extreme EATX TR4 Motherboard

G. Skill Trident Z RGB 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 RAM x2

Samsung 960 PRO 512GB M.2 2280 SSD

EVGA NVIDIA GeForce 1080 Ti FTW3 x2

Windows 10 Pro 64bit

 

1. RAM issue, activating XMP Profile for the RAM does not run the RAM at the stated speeds of 3200, but at stock 2133.  Also, when I activate the XMP Profile, the computer would restart many times without fulling posting or going into Windows before sending me straight back into the BIOS without my input.

 

2. What would cause cinematic scenes in games to have the audio lag behind the video?  The game in question is Hellbade: Senua's Sacrifice.

 

3. I have two different sized monitors: ASUS ROG PG348Q 34" 3440 x 1440 100 Hz Ultrawide G-sync Curved monitor and ASUS ROG P2749Q 27" 2560 x 1440 IPS 165 Hz G-sync monitor.

 

I have the 34" as my primary monitor and the 27" as my secondary.  I have placed my taskbar on the 27" monitor.  A problem arises when my monitors go to sleep after inactivity.  When the monitors turn back on again after I have moved my mouse. The taskbar and all windows that were active on the 27" secondary monitor gets moved over to my 34" primary monitor.  What could be causing this issue, and is there a way to prevent the system or Windows from moving the contents every single time?

 

Related to the monitor issue, when my computer initially boots up from pushing the power button, the screens flicker man times before settling and containing the boot process.

 

4. Unrelated to my system.  I just bought a NAS and two 10TB Seagate Ironwolf drives.  The damn thing is noisy when seeking.  Is that normal?  Sounds like boiling water IMO.

 

Thanks.

 

[LienusLateTips]

Just answering the audio question - try using passthrough GPU audio.

[Thinkfreely]

XMP has had issues with Ryzen/Threadripper from day one. I would suggest manually setting your clocks and speeds.

[Guest]

From my own experiences with this setup:

 

1. Disable HPET, it gets turned on by AI Suite III and destroys performance.
2. Use DisplayFusion for multi-monitor management.
3. Everyone in the X399 ROG forums is having issues w/ anything over 2933.

 

[Tamagatchi]

9 hours ago, JDE said:

Just answering the audio question - try using passthrough GPU audio.

Just browsed lightly, it seems that passthrough GPU audio is for VMs. I'm not really familiar with what this is.

[LienusLateTips]

2 hours ago, Tamagatchi said:

Just browsed lightly, it seems that passthrough GPU audio is for VMs. I'm not really familiar with what this is.

No. So both your motherboard and GPU have a audio chip. Using passthrough audio, you bypass the motherboard audio and use the GPU audio chip. You plug your headphones into the monitor rather than the computer.

[Tamagatchi]

1 hour ago, JDE said:

No. So both your motherboard and GPU have a audio chip. Using passthrough audio, you bypass the motherboard audio and use the GPU audio chip. You plug your headphones into the monitor rather than the computer.

I see.  In that case, since I am using speakers, I would plug it into the monitor instead?

[LienusLateTips]

Just now, Tamagatchi said:

I see.  In that case, since I am using speakers, I would plug it into the monitor instead?

yeah

 

BTW use HDMI or Displayport to connect to the monitor from the GPU, that's the only way it will work

[Tamagatchi]

Just an update on my issues.

 

1. I've updated my motherboard BIOS and my computer crashes when I attempt to set the RAM speed higher than 3000, so I've settled for 2800 at the moment.

 

2. I'm still having the audio lag during cinematic cutscenes in games.  Audio pass through does not solve the issue.  Drivers are up to date.  I've checked if HPET was active, it does not appear to be for the option does not show up after entering:

bcdedit /enum

I also now notice this annoying lag when the game hands over control to me after a cutscene.  The frames drop, and then resume back to normal, resulting a very jarring transition.

 

3. I have fixed the monitor issue.  The monitors were set to deep sleep, after removing that option the windows and task bar did not move around.