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I got the replacement 3700x today and it is working great. Let's hope it continues to do so! The RMA process overall took about 2 weeks I'd say. AMD sent me a prepaid label and all I had to send in was the CPU itself. The day they got it they sent me an email confirming receipt and that it was...

Agreed. I mean with smartphones and laptops these days, I usually put most of the blame on the CPU as a failure point. The BGA chips with lead free solder are constantly going bad and creating massive amounts of e-waste. But I have no idea what to make of this. I don't imagine it's a bad...

AMD loaner kit was a no go. They basically told me to use the FlashBack built into the motherboard or prove that I couldn't before they would send anything out. They didn't specifically say but it seemed pretty clear in their reply that it wasn't intended for my troubleshooting/warranty...

Yeah, I remember that! I'm going to look into this. If ASUS doesn't have a clear answer I'm going to contact AMD support before shipping anything off. Maybe they'll be willing to send a new CPU out for testing. lol Great suggestion!

If the thermal paste is spreading on the CPU, the cooler is making contact enough to provide some cooling, but it likely isn't optimal. As suggested, look into getting a new cooler. The Hyper T2 and Hyper 212 from Cooler Master are both good options if you're on budget. Otherwise, a stock LGA...

You'll probably see some improvement, but as sizzling said it isn't going to work well at the resolutions that card is designed to run. If your only problem is the 2GB frame buffer, you should see a huge jump, but that's only going to happen in very niche situtations. While I wouldn't recommend...

Thanks to both of you for your responses! This is listed under things I've tried. It's a good idea and I've done it several times. To reiterate, I'm not having trouble booting into my main OS, I'm struggling to get ANYTHING to boot fully. Another good suggestion but already attempted. in...

So after a bit more testing I was able to get the system to boot to Memtest but within a few seconds of the test starting it would lockup/freeze again. I got the new RAM in today and the same thing was happening. After a few reboots Memtest progresses to test 8 and threw up these errors before...

The CPU would be plenty good, but it depends on whether or not the power supply can handle the increased load. The RX 570 is is a pretty big bump to around 200W or more at peak. The recommended minimum PSU is a 450W. Paired with the 3770k I'd say you might squeak by with a 400W if it was really...

Check under Network Adapters and see if the WiFi portion of the hardware has power management settings. I know it's not the WiFi you're having trouble with but the Bluetooth usually uses the same hardware for it's radio. TBH it sounds like bad driver support. The device isn't properly waking...

A 3700k and accompanying parts likely aren't going to hold back something like a GTX 1650 by much if any.

See if the BIOS has a setting for ErP (Energy-related Products)? Try disabling/enabling it and see if your results vary? You can also check in the device properties through Device Manager for the Power Management tab. There may be a check box for "Allow the computer to turn off this device to...

I assume by "unplugging" you mean you are "hot-swapping" the card from the PCIEX1_2 slot? While technically fine, this doesn't sound like a healthy solution. :ROFLMAO: I can't find a detailed breakdown of the A320 chipset and how it handles PCIe lanes, but I would assume that the X16 slot is...

Both "should" work. Your motherboard should be able to provide at least 75 watts to the card through the PCIe 3.0 x16 slot. The GTX 750 Ti is around a 60W card whereas the GTX 1650 and RX 560 are around 75W. So theoretically, if components on your PSU or board have degraded they might not be...

I would suggest doing a clean install of the latest Nvidia Geforce drivers before any further hardware troubleshooting. If that doesn't work, boot to Safe Mode and run DDU before reinstalling again. You can also try with an older version of drivers that were released at a time it was working...