Metaldude_666
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- Mar 23, 2020
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Thanks to you, and Nutting The Rueful , for your advice, and suggestions. It got me thinking about something.As already mentioned by Nutting The Rueful, this more sounds like a hardware issue (besides your GPU as you confirmed it's fine) than an operating system issue, especially if a reinstall of Windows has the issue remain.
If you have an AMD CPU, make sure to update your motherboard BIOS to the latest because numerous AMD stability issues have been fixed over the years through BIOS updates and help stability, especially with RAM.
Otherwise, if you have updated your BIOS, I would be most suspect of your RAM and/or its compatibility with your system as AMD systems are way pickier with RAM than Intel systems, even on their latest platforms. If you are on Intel however, still update your BIOS as fixes and stability issues have been resolved for Intel too.
If your system has XMP/DOCP enabled (which it should to get the most performance), you could try temporarily disabling it in your BIOS and see if your crashes go away. If your crashes do go away, then you at least know that your issue is related to RAM stability, and you can work on figuring out a solution for your RAM stability. If they remain, then the last thing I guess it could be is your drive that has your games on it.
It seems that I may have had an "OOps, I fucked up" moment, when I built this PC.
I have a Ryzen 7 2700X CPU, and I have 3200 mhz ram, in my machine, I checked to make sure that the ram was compatible with the motherboard, and I checked, to ensure that it was compatible with the CPU I want, in this machine, the Ryzen 9 5950X.
But I never checked to see, if 3200 mhz ram was compatible with the 2700X.
2933 mhz ram is, apparently, the fastest ram the 2700X can use.
The local computer shop owner told me that it should be no problem, that the ram should downclock, to work with the max speed of the CPU/mobo, but, I suspect that that may not be the case.
It seems that Ill likely just have to deal with this problem, until I can upgrade to the 5950X. I've always viewed the 2700X as a "placeholder processor", anyways, so extra motivation to upgrade, I guess.
Edit:
I've manually downclocked ram, to 2666 mhz, to see if that'll make a difference.
Might be too much of a drop, to be stable, hopefully, it works.
Edit#2:
It turns out, the problem had nothing to do with hardware issues, it turns out NZXT Cam, was causing ALL the issues.
Now I know that I need to shut it down, as soon as it sets my RGB, after startup.
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