22-03-2025, 11:30 AM
The PSU is a corsair rm850e purchased in may 2023 and was rock solid in the previous build using the same GPU and a 5800x3d so while it's possible I don't think that's the issue.
I did have the same thought regarding the CPU but there's no way to know without spare parts to swap around.
The thing with testing using prime 95 is that it doesn't crash any more than normal use, which is to say about once a day (not that I've run P95 that long but it's never crashed while it was running).
I enabled Expo last monday and left memtest running all day while I was at work, no errors. But then I turned it back off again because with it off I haven't had a bluescreen since the 8/3 and at this point I'm just resigned to live with it like that.
I haven't been able to definitively prove whether it's a faulty component, a driver issue, or just a compatibility issue. Officially the 7700X only supports up to 5200Mhz but all the reviews I watched said 6000Mhz is the sweet spot which is why I went for that. Maybe I just picked the wrong RAM, yeah getting RAM on the QVL list would have been better but too late now and also it's not always been easy to find QVL RAM in NZ (but yes it for this board it is available and I should have).
You think I'd learn, My last 3 RAM purchases have been a bit wrong and caused me issues. First a ryzen 2700x where I got RAM advertised as for intel and had to down clock it for stability, then a 5600x on the same board (which fixed the original RAM issues btw) where I got new RAM and made the same mistake again - but it didn't matter because it worked. Now this time where I made sure it supported expo and was advertised as for AMD but didn't check the QVL list.
I think all my years with intel core CPUs where I just bought any old RAM based on speed and capacity and it just worked made me less cautious than I should be.
The PC is probably going to stay as is now until next year, at which point I may look at upgrading the CPU
I did have the same thought regarding the CPU but there's no way to know without spare parts to swap around.
The thing with testing using prime 95 is that it doesn't crash any more than normal use, which is to say about once a day (not that I've run P95 that long but it's never crashed while it was running).
I enabled Expo last monday and left memtest running all day while I was at work, no errors. But then I turned it back off again because with it off I haven't had a bluescreen since the 8/3 and at this point I'm just resigned to live with it like that.
I haven't been able to definitively prove whether it's a faulty component, a driver issue, or just a compatibility issue. Officially the 7700X only supports up to 5200Mhz but all the reviews I watched said 6000Mhz is the sweet spot which is why I went for that. Maybe I just picked the wrong RAM, yeah getting RAM on the QVL list would have been better but too late now and also it's not always been easy to find QVL RAM in NZ (but yes it for this board it is available and I should have).
You think I'd learn, My last 3 RAM purchases have been a bit wrong and caused me issues. First a ryzen 2700x where I got RAM advertised as for intel and had to down clock it for stability, then a 5600x on the same board (which fixed the original RAM issues btw) where I got new RAM and made the same mistake again - but it didn't matter because it worked. Now this time where I made sure it supported expo and was advertised as for AMD but didn't check the QVL list.
I think all my years with intel core CPUs where I just bought any old RAM based on speed and capacity and it just worked made me less cautious than I should be.
The PC is probably going to stay as is now until next year, at which point I may look at upgrading the CPU