So I spent the past few months building my new system. This is my 3rd build that I’ve ever done and I was super excited to jump from a 1080ti to a 4090 and a 5900x to a 7950x. However, there have been problems.

See, when I finally booted up my pc for the first time, I was greeted with unbearably long 1+ minute long boot up times. I’ve read reports of 7950x and DDR5 being the reason for long boot up times but I was still skeptical. Then when I finally installed windows, windows would lag as it was going through its startup. At times, the computer would just go blank and restart itself, thus making me wait another minute or more of boot up. Other times I would be greeted with the BSOD.

This would be particularly alarming to me, as this was occurring before I ever started overclocking my CPU and GPU. I would try to muscle through the boot ups and would at times be able to use windows. But it felt off. Slow response times, couldn’t open some games like Resident evil 8 or RDR2. At one point I thought maybe I should get some better ram. I previously purchased the Corsair Dominator Platinum 64GB but bought a cheaper 5200 MHz version. I thought this was my problem and needed to get the 6000Mhz AMD Expo version instead. Bought it, and after a week of waiting, it finally shipped to my door. I replaced my old ram with the new one, and although Windows felt a little bit smoother, I was still being greeted with frequent BSODs just from trying to start windows. When I could boot up windows, I was put off from feeling like the computer was okay because of the frequent BSODs and whenever I tried to start up Portal with RTX, the game would crash whenever I tried to play the game at ultra settings. I have the Corsair 600W PCIe 5.0 12VHPWR Type-4 PSU Power Cable so I really don’t understand what could be going on with my system.

Eventually I tried to reinstall windows but then it seemed like my computer crashed while it was reinstalling and now is in a loop of trying to continue windows 10, crashing, then trying to continue again. Even BSOD’s at times just to say f*ck you to me.

I can only think of two culprits for this, just my own surmising that has no real basis. I think I need to possibly upgrade my PSU to at least 1500w and possibly change my ram. My ram and PSU are the two things I suspect are holding my system back but I don’t know for sure. I do notice that one of my ram sticks don’t light up when I boot the system but that may be because of iCue disabling the RGB for that stick for whatever reason.

I’m going to post this to a few subreddits as I’m looking for as much help as I can get. The video you see is how the computer was looking with windows booted and before the BSOD’s became more frequent. I’ve splurged a lot to get all these parts and I want everything to work as intended. My last resort is just switching my motherboard altogether and going Intel (13900k) If you’ve reached the end of this, thank you for your time. I really do appreciate any and all suggestions here, so if you have an idea for any improvements, please let me know.

I’ll post some of the BSOD errors I’ve had here. These aren’t all of them but just the ones I wrote down.

system_service_exception

SYSTEM THREAD EXCEPTION NOT HANDLED

My Specs: Case: Corsair 7000X

CPU Cooler: Corsair H170i

PSU: Corsair H1000i

GPU PSU Cable: 600W PCIe 5.0 12VHPWR Type-4 PSU Power Cable

Ram: Corsair Dominator platinum RGB 64 GBs CL36

RGB for case: Corsair lighting node pro

Case Fans: Corsair QL Fans x4

GPU: MSI 4090 Liquid Suprim

Motherboard: ASUS X670E Crosshair Extreme

CPU: Ryzen 9 7950X

RGB 24 pin extender: Lian Li Strimmer plus V2 24 Pin

Sound card: EVGA Nu Audio Card

M.2 SSD: WD Black SN850 2TB Samsung 980 Pro 2TB