A shade tree mechanic might start replacing those 10 parts one at a time in alphabetical order until the problem went away.
That would work, however senseless it might be.
You're absolutely right, and I'd like to think I've put considerable effort into diagnosing the issue before I started buying what I suspected were the problem components, but I can't even claim that with absolute certainty.
My logic does boil down to my experience with previous builds having no stability issues whatsoever and I figure if I just change (almost) everything in the system, it's bound to work fine like the prior builds... I don't want to throw money at that idea blindly, but no one including myself have been able to figure out the issue(s).
It's so strange that it would work perfectly fine for a bit over a year and then just become a crapshow that transcends multiple windows 10 installations across multiple SSDs and kits of RAM. Just want the stress to be over, the constant worry of bluescreening and crashing. Need that peace back, and that sanity is more valuable than money to me at this point...
Off the top of my head ONLY:
Seriously don't like difficulty in installing ordinary Windows 10 through USB and Microsoft Media Creation Tool. All the moreso if you've attempted the install on more than one SSD.
Does this PC still behave poorly if you do very minimal tasks on it.....4 or 5 tabs, shopping at Amazon; email; writing up a pork chop recipe; looking at cat videos?
Does it act poorly if you disable the video card and run purely on integrated graphics?
Top of your head is okay, I'm open to whatever ideas anyone might have.
Yeah I've never had trouble installing Windows 10 before, it normally just worked fine every time.
The PC is more stable if there's less going on, but it still boots up with a Discord crash (auto opens, crashes, then I have to re-open it and sometimes it won't re-open without another reboot). I leave the PC on almost 24/7, and I usually come back to several crashed firefox tabs, chrome closed (from a crash), discord either open on friend screen (screen that it defaults to when re-opening, aka crash) or outright closed from a crash - after sleep etc. But still, with even windows 10 and drivers having a significantly rough time installing, the problem has to be a deep rooted hardware problem, no?
Regardless, if it's not up to the tasks I've been normally doing fine for the last decade and then some, then something needs to be replaced so that it does.
Haven't tried integrated graphics, or rather haven't tried running the computer without the 3080 Ti in it. Do you think that would cause BSOD on a windows install etc?
Funny you mention amazon shopping, those are the most common to crash tabs in firefox.
If cable and wiring connections are proper and it's stipulated that the RAM is OK, I guess the most likely remaining point of failure would be the motherboard under the 13900K.
Is that preferable to changing CPU and motherboard and whatever else might be required if you give up on Intel entirely?
Well, this is my first time with a DDR5 motherboard and yet these problems are happening, so it's really scaring me away from modern components as a whole. I don't even know what to blame, just figure a complete shift would have the highest chance of remedying the problems. I can't say I prefer a replacement motherboard, a new Intel DDR5 one, or all in on team red.
What would you do when faced with this decision?
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