Question First time PC build, potential noob issue. Games... Crashing? I'm not sure...

[jt2281cc]

Just built my first PC.
R5 3600
RX 5600 XT
1tb intel m.2 drive
16gb 3200 Ram
Asrock B450M Pro4

Yesterday was my first day getting to work on it. I cloned my old laptops drive onto an HDD I had lying around and install that and then cloned the HDD to the M.2 and wiped the HDD... It booted up picking up where my laptop left off beautifully! I installed AMD 5600 Drivers. I installed like 5 of the MOBO drivers that I thought I needed, went into Bios and set Ram speed to my 3200. This morning I have been going through the games I play, Valorant, LoL, RB6-Seige, SWTOR, etc and getting to finally see what they look like at max (1080) graphics... Well this has happened twice.

First time was playing Valorant... I get a kill and in a blink I'm looking at my desktop... No freeze frame... no blue screen, no black screen, just one second I'm in game, next second I'm looking at my wallpaper.
Second happened just a minute ago playing RB6... Same thing, get a kill and in a blink I'm looking at my desktop...

BOTH times task manager shows nothing running... Both times I was able to boot the game back up no problem.

I don't know that it was a crash or not.

 

[rgd1101]

do a fresh os install on new hardware

 

[The_Ginja_Ninja]

Agree with rgd1101... Had a very similar (but not identical) issue. Cloning your boot (Windows) drive, for whatever reason, does not work well. I know... it's a bitter pill to swallow!

 

[jt2281cc]

What is the best way to do that?

 

[jt2281cc]

Also, what else could it be? It's such an odd issue...

 

[The_Ginja_Ninja]

What is the best way to do that?

You'll find many a guide to reinstall Windows online. Basically, you need to create a bootable installation USB.

 

[jt2281cc]

RB6 says that 4100 mb of my 6gb gpu is being used, yet radeon overlay is showing me 99% utilization.. why??

 

[The_Ginja_Ninja]

RB6 says that 4100 mb of my 6gb gpu is being used, yet radeon overlay is showing me 99% utilization.. why??

Is the utilisation not the GPU utilisation, rather than the VRAM used?

 

[jt2281cc]

Is the utilisation not the GPU utilisation, rather than the VRAM used?

It is GPU util:... How is that figured? Am I just tapping it out with those settings?

 

[The_Ginja_Ninja]

It is GPU util:... How is that figured? Am I just tapping it out with those settings?

Yup - it means it's working as hard as it can.

 

[jt2281cc]

Yup - it means it's working as hard as it can.

So I'm taxing its clock speed? Im running stock clock at the moment because my fans havent came in and Im using the default two case fans that came with my fractal.

 

[jt2281cc]

Yup - it means it's working as hard as it can.

Im ignorant to how a GPU gets taxed clock wise and not Vram wise...

 

[The_Ginja_Ninja]

I'm no expert, but I understand it like this:

If you are playing a fairly modern game, your GPU will run as fast as it can to output as many FPS as it can. This is the GPU utilisation - it's running a lot of instructions per second.

VRAM is memory and holds 'stuff'. The higher your settings, the more 'stuff' it has to hold, the more VRAM it needs.

Hopefully someone can provide a more technical answer for you

 

[ClapTrapper]

Are we sure it isn't a memory issue? He said he set the RAM speed and he is on Ryzen. Ryzens are touchy with RAM. I try memtest to make sure the memory is fine.

 

[jt2281cc]

Are we sure it isn't a memory issue? He said he set the RAM speed and he is on Ryzen. Ryzens are touchy with RAM. I try memtest to make sure the memory is fine.

what is this? Is remtest a software?

 

[ClapTrapper]

https://www.memtest86.com

It's free.

 

[jt2281cc]

https://www.memtest86.com

It's free.

I'm wondering if you're onto something... Though nothing has crashed since the first 36 hours of having the PC running, I have noticed a 30 second boot time, for this build that should NOT be happening... Im getting 15 seconds or so of black screen pre-motherboard logo... Im thinking I have a ram-issue... I dont have a thumb drive handy to run that from... Can I install it on a HDD I have? I ran the windows memory test and got no issues found.

 

[jt2281cc]

https://www.memtest86.com

It's free.

Ran two full passes, 0 errors.
Ran a SSDbench, 19xxmbps.
I'm really trying to figure out what setting in bios could be causing the long boots. I'm planning on ordering a new set of ram sticks because I am really thinking the MOBO doesn't like the memory. But on Asrock's support page it does not list a matisse compatability list...

 

[jt2281cc]

https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/37155947

Here are my benchmark results. Latency on the ram, everything else looked awesome in my opinion, (for a budget build). Can you decipher what that latency means? is it bad? is it nothing to worry about? I have 0 point of reference for it.

 

[jt2281cc]

I just now saw that I have bios version 4.30 and 4.60 is the next and newest version. But there are tons and tons of warnings on the bios page of asrock's website. Should I update it? I don't want to brick my system. I only wonder if it has to do with the long boot time.

 

[jt2281cc]

The ram installed is 16-20-20, I don't understand timings very well, but I know ryzen is picky... I just need to know if there is a replacement set of ram that will 100% be good with my system. And if this would/could be affecting a long boot time.