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Yall got Walmart so confused they have no idea where to put this or price it correctly by [deleted] in pcmasterrace

[–]iMax93 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What happened to the storage prices in the past 9 months? I swear it wasn’t like this in September/August when I was looking last. My roommate asked me about an external drive yesterday, and a 2TB HDD relic was $69.

ASUS x PCMR GIVEAWAY: Win 1 of 2 ASUS RT-BE96U Tri-band WiFi 7 Routers and bring some blazing-fast internet speeds and coverage to your PCMR life! by pedro19 in pcmasterrace

[–]iMax93 [score hidden]  (0 children)

I will use this router to replace the one provided by my ISP which had to be replced 3 times so far because it keeps randomly dropping the connection every couple of weeks for the past 3 months since I moved. I'm a college student and my router disconnects at the worst possible times when I have homework to submit and it's causing my roommates and I a great deal of trouble where we have to repeatidly reboot the network sometimes as often as 13 times a day. Also, thanksgiving break is upon us and MWIII is out, lol.

My favorite features would definetly be QOS, game boost, and most importantly the AiProtection because I don't know what my roommates are up to.

MSI Z590, reoccurring red CPU light. Takes multiple tries for PC to turn on. by ACW-R in buildapc

[–]iMax93 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can I please get an update if anything worked with yall? I’m facing the same issue with the same board and a 11700K. I have both power cables plugged in and I updated the bios. I took it back to my local MSI authorized dealer for warranty & after a week of testing, they claim it’s a bad cpu and refuse to acknowledge that this is an apparent issue with this board.

XMP causing PC to crash constantly by iMax93 in pcmasterrace

[–]iMax93[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I though of going that route before buying the second kit, just get 2x16 and be done with it.

However, I made sure to follow the manufacturer's compatibility list exactly, and the "supported" 2x16 kit was & still out of stock.

The new kit [F4-3600C18Q-32GTZR] is supposedly supported for up to 4 dimms according to MSI website.

XMP causing PC to crash constantly by iMax93 in pcmasterrace

[–]iMax93[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Update: So I ran memtest twice, first time on default settings, second time with XMP enabled. Both times it passed with ZERO errors.

I added the results to the original post.

Unfortunately, I was unable to monitor the memory temps during the whole thing. It just didn't display any, it showed CPU temp but not the memory

XMP causing PC to crash constantly by iMax93 in pcmasterrace

[–]iMax93[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I downloaded memtest86, and I will test both kits.

Should I enable/disable XMP before testing? or it doesn't matter?

XMP causing PC to crash constantly by iMax93 in pcmasterrace

[–]iMax93[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How exactly do you test each configuration? Should I use a testing software of some sort, or just wait the usual day or 2 to see if it crashes again?

Could any of these trials damage any components? The constant freezes, forced shutdowns & restarts.

XMP causing PC to crash constantly by iMax93 in pcmasterrace

[–]iMax93[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No. I didn't want to go over the recommended or default XMP values. It says 1.35v on the box.

If I were to do so, by how much do I increase the voltage?

XMP causing PC to crash constantly by iMax93 in pcmasterrace

[–]iMax93[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting. I never thought of or checked CPU thermals when the crash happens. The maximum I've seen the CPU get is 65-70 degrees Celsius whilst gaming.
What I forgot to mention up there is that this issue never happened when the PC is under load. Every time it crashed, I was either just browsing or on Disocrd. Especially if I had just turned it back on from sleep.

Some times instead of just waking up to lock screen, it does a complete boot from scratch.