So a couple days ago I bought some components to upgrade my pc and since then it's taken me for a [CENSORED] ride. Right now I have:
- a Ryzen 3 3200g with its stock cooler (no overclocking)
- an Asrock A320m-hdv r4.0 (yeah I know)
- two 4gb 2666mhz sticks, PNY brand
- a no-name Sentey BXP65-LS PSU that claims to be 650w (yeah I know, but like. It's an APU. This sentey used to power a 3rd gen i5 with a 2gb R5 250x a couple years ago, so I didn't think it would cause any trouble)
- two HDD's, 1tb and 500gb
- multiple BSOD's (KERNEL_MODE_HEAP_CORRUPTION, THREAD_STUCK_IN_DEVICE_DRIVER_M, probably some others that I can't remember. It's BSOD'd like 5-10 times in the last 10 days, always when gaming/ doing something intensive),
- had some artifacting and crashed while playing Fortnite (that's on me really, I have a small desktop with no airflow and for some reason I decided to check if a notoriously hot cpu would run fine with its stock cooler on a reduced space. The answer was no)
- had a black screen once, again when playing Fortnite. Had to shut it down with the case button. It's worth mentioning that the very first day of building the pc, I actually played like 3 or 4 fortnite matches without issue, and they were pretty long matches where I ended up in the top 10 almost every time.
- has done the thing multiple times where it the screen freezes and the speakers start blaring a buzzing sound. This is particularly bad because it's done this not only on modern games, but also in [CENSORED] Black Mesa, a dx9 game that I used to play with no issues on a 1gb 9800gt (a 12 year old gpu). I'm pretty sure it's not a temperature issue, as I had Afterburner open the whole time and the temps were sitting on 52 c before it crashed.
- installed the AMD chipset drivers, the AMD Radeon Software that also downloaded some drivers, a couple of drivers that came with the mobo on a little cd, etc
- updated Windows 10 to the 2004 version (took ages)
- used DDU to erase old Nvidia and AMD files
- changed the thermal paste (on my week old processor. Yes I'm desperate)
- benched and stressed the cpu with CPU-Z, nothing really happened
- benched the cpu with prime95, it ran for a while until the cpu temp got to 85 c or so (I was checking with afterburner). Then a minute passed and I noticed the computer's clock hadn't changed, I tried to move the mouse and it wouldn't move. The screen was frozen and the ctrl+shift+win+b "reset graphics" thing didn't work, so I shut it off.
- ran the windows 10 memory test, it didn't find anything bad. I'll run memtest86 tomorrow if I find my USB drive
- ran chkdsk /r, it said Windows had fixed some things but that it required no further action
- played a couple games. Played far too many hours of Among Us with no issue but that game can run on mobile so it's not exactly a benchmarking tool. Was able to run Civ 6 in dx12 and dx11 for hours consistently for 2 or 3 days with no issue (haven't tried that game again tho), played like 10 mins of JC3 on low settings and besides the awful framerate and one instance where I thought it was gonna freeze, nothing bad happened.
- Played a couple fortnite matches back when it allowed me to (both dx11 and dx12, wanted to see which one performed better), played one (1) match of Heroes and Generals that crashed mid-game, and then another that had some weird artifacting/ vignetting (like a purple ring around the screen). The framerate was fine for the 5 or so minutes I played, but the visual glitch was freaking me out so I clicked "exit to main menu" and then BAM blue screen. I pressed the little case button instead of holding down the big one, which I assume means that it rebooted instead of totally shutting down, and when it turned back on the screen was filled with red and white artifacts. Used the big button after that.
- I also played Black Mesa right after building the pc, must have been like 30-40 minutes and no crashes or crazy high temps. My little brother played Roblox two times and both times it BSOD'd (the culprit was apparently dxgkrnl.sys) and he claims that Arma 3 also crashed, but to a black screen instead of a blue one. So far I haven't had any crashes during normal internet usage or when playing HD videos (I've seen some people having those issues, but nothing here) nor while doing digital art.