Question Please help me with making a purchasing decision

[Faibra]

Due to me being very busy with work, I was not able to purchase anything during the great prime day sales. Should I wait for another chance for deals to come, or is there just no point and I should just buy now?

I want to build a 4K gaming setup. I wanna get a 7800X 3D to pair with a 7900 XTX with an ASRock X670 Steel Legend motherboard, along with a 4K monitor. I even saw a price increase yesterday where I saw a 7900 XTX go from $906.00 to $962.00 when I came back from work. I'm returning the parts I'm using for my current PC because I've been having many issues with some of the parts, but I still need a computer. I can't afford to go too long without a computer so what do you guys think I should do?

 

[punkncat]

Where are you shopping from, and what is budget?
What is use case?

 

[lojikal]

Due to me being very busy with work, I was not able to purchase anything during the great prime day sales. Should I wait for another chance for deals to come, or is there just no point and I should just buy now?

I want to build a 4K gaming setup. I wanna get a 7800X 3D to pair with a 7900 XTX with an ASRock X670 Steel Legend motherboard, along with a 4K monitor. I even saw a price increase yesterday where I saw a 7900 XTX go from $906.00 to $962.00 when I came back from work. I'm returning the parts I'm using for my current PC because I've been having many issues with some of the parts, but I still need a computer. I can't afford to go too long without a computer so what do you guys think I should do?

What are the issues you're experiencing.

 

[Faibra]

What are the issues you're experiencing.

I've been experiencing stability with the BIOS such as BSODs when I was trying to reinstall windows. When I turn off XMP in the BIOS settings before I try installing windows the screen freezes and i am forced to hold down the power button on my PC case. I am now even facing issues with my GPU after I plugged in my new GPU into my old motherboard in my old PC build. I thought that only my old GPU was damaged but it seems that maybe even the motherboard was damaged as when I took out my new GPU put my new PC I'm now experiencing similar graphical glitches in my games and dropped frame rates that I experienced on my old PC. I'm thinking that my motherboard was damaged too when I tried cleaning it with a compressed air cleaner which might have left residual liquid that I could not see that might have caused damage to it. I might be overreacting but considering this is way too close of coincidence I think that my old motherboard might have damaged my new graphics card and now I'm experiencing graphical glitches and frame rate drops that I did not experience when I first installed my new graphics card into my new PC.

Here are my PC specs:

CPU: Ryzen 5 7600X
CPU cooler: Thermalrite Peerless Assassin 120 SE
Motherboard: MSI B650M-A Wifi
Ram: Corsair Vengeance DDR5 RAM 32 GB
SSD: SAMSUNG 980 PRO and Team Group T-Force Vulcan 500 GB
GPU: SAPPHIRE PULSE 6700 XT
PSU: CORSAIR RM750x
Chassis: Corsair 4000D air flow
OS: Windows 10
Monitor: Dell 144 Hz gaming monitor FHD 24-in monitor

 

[Faibra]

Where are you shopping from, and what is budget?
What is use case?

At this point I'm so frustrated I'm willing to pay for anything to get this build, but obviously I would like to get this as cheap as possible.

 

[punkncat]

Yeah, much too nice a system just to throw the towel in on.

Check Event Viewer and see what that is telling you by way of event id codes. Similar thing for Reliability History.

Try sfc/dism

Is the RAM being used on the mobo QVL? Have you run any stability tests on it?

 

[Faibra]

Yeah, much too nice a system just to throw the towel in on.

Check Event Viewer and see what that is telling you by way of event id codes. Similar thing for Reliability History.

Try sfc/dism

Is the RAM being used on the mobo QVL? Have you run any stability tests on it?

View: https://youtu.be/OifiSAMAIdE

Here's a video I made to showcase what I see when I press event viewer and reliability history.
Here's a link I found that talks about How to Repair Corrupted Windows System Files with the SFC and DISM Commands, https://www.howtogeek.com/222532/ho...-system-files-with-the-sfc-and-dism-commands/. Can you tell me if this link is good for following the instructions? What stability test would you recommend for testing if a ram is compatible?

 

[punkncat]

Memtest86.

You could even try the memory test built into Windows, but not sure how bulletproof that is for a reliable result.

I am not aware of any issue with How to Geek. If you look various places they should all be telling you the same process for doing so out of an elevated CMD window.

 

[Faibra]

Memtest86.

You could even try the memory test built into Windows, but not sure how bulletproof that is for a reliable result.

I am not aware of any issue with How to Geek. If you look various places they should all be telling you the same process for doing so out of an elevated CMD window.

Yeah, memtest 86 is the one that I have heard about and tried to use before. Also, if you don't mind could you please tell me what you thought about what you saw in the video?

 

[punkncat]

My apologies. My eyes aren't good enough to see that in the default window, and going to full screen is just blurry. I cannot offer any suggestions to that aspect.

It appears that your Reliability History is flat, no events.

In Event Viewer under Summary of Admin Events you will want to look through Critical and Error tabs and see what the event codes come back as. Keeping in mind that Event 41 will be logged any time you power down the system by means other than "shut down", such as long hold on power button (or crash).

 

[Faibra]

My apologies. My eyes aren't good enough to see that in the default window, and going to full screen is just blurry. I cannot offer any suggestions to that aspect.

It appears that your Reliability History is flat, no events.

In Event Viewer under Summary of Admin Events you will want to look through Critical and Error tabs and see what the event codes come back as. Keeping in mind that Event 41 will be logged any time you power down the system by means other than "shut down", such as long hold on power button (or crash).

Did you make sure to watch it in full resolution? I can see it just fine on my 1080p monitor when I put the video in fullscreen.

 

[punkncat]

Thanks, yes it cleared up about 15 seconds in. I see it had (4) Errors in the last 24 hours. I only caught '2545', but search those and see if anything pertinent comes up in help threads. I would not (typically) be overconcerned about the stuff below that Error tab, that turns into a deep rabbit hole, fast.