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Hello and thank you for reading.

My current RIG:
GPU: (RTX 2070 AORUS SUPER)
CPU: (Ryzen 3700X)
PSU: (Corsair RM750X)
MB: (MSI B450 Gaming Pro Carbon)
SSD: (ADATA XPG SX8200)
RAM: (G.Skill Trident Z Neo 3600Mhz 2x16GB)
Monitor: (Asus PG278QR)

Games I'm building PC for:
Future GTA 6
Future ARK II
ARK Survival Ascended
ARK Survival Evolved
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
And probably trying out Cyberpunk 2077


What I mostly want to play right now is ARK Survival Ascended where my desired framerate is what RTX 4090 provides, but price range for that is way too crazy.

So my goal is to buy a system that would be strong for RTX 4090 or any stronger cards that may come in future while I just buy RTX 4070 Ti for now.
Now do I either wait a bit until 4070 Ti Super cards come out, or do I buy 4070 Ti now and wait for 4090 prices to drop and sell and swap it later or even wait for 5k cards in future.

Basically.... I want future proof system where I can swap GPU's around as I want and dont need to worry about anything else (such us motherboard not supporting a GPU anymore as with my current MB I went with B450 knowing I'm not upgrading GPU anymore until it's time to buy completly new PC)

Which is now! Should I do it? In most games I'm still fine with current rig but I want to enjoy some ARK without low FPS... strugling on 20-30 most of the time while sometimes it drops to 12-15 even, it's just starting to bring me less joy.

As for monitor I'm sticking to 2k gaming for now but I'd always be open to go 4k in future as well when I upgrade to far stronger card.
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If any questions please ask me, any kind of support or suggestions are greatly appretiated!
Best Regards.
 
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King Dranzer said:
Did you reseat CPU or something if you did that could be the problem.

Did you replug CPU Power Pins if not then do that.

Also did you try clearing CMOS and resetting BIOS. If not do that first.
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ok, had another shut down yesterday, now I re-plugged all cables on my PSU (except the main big one), and I reset my BIOS with holding screwdriver betwen JBAT1 pins. I checked some settings my XMP was off the rest seems to be same, but then again I never really changed anything else other than that so looks it it reset (there was a text for 3s before I entered bios that usually doesn't appear so I guess it's reset).

But yah, now it's waiting time again 😅
 
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ok, had another shut down yesterday, now I re-plugged all cables on my PSU (except the main big one), and I reset my BIOS with holding screwdriver betwen JBAT1 pins. I checked some settings my XMP was off the rest seems to be same, but then again I never really changed anything else other than that so looks it it reset (there was a text for 3s before I entered bios that usually doesn't appear so I guess it's reset).

But yah, now it's waiting time again 😅
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Having issues with nVidia Shadowplay for no reason today. Whenever I alt-tab games it resets the recording.
So if I ALT+F10 to save last 5min it just saves few seconds from when I tabbed back in.
I have recordings today of it working just fine, it recorded my desktop and me going to a game and playing. I only watched some YT videos and went playing another game, and issues since then, 0 logic.
I'm so fed up with this computers and their dumb random issues out of a blue.

I also hear this crackling sounds in my headset whenever I tab in and out... I'm so confused what's going on now for no reason.
I reinstalled drivers, restarted PC, went right in to a game (ARK) and saved, it showed me logging in to my PC account even and how I enter game, it was fixed and then I tried it again and it was broken again...
So PC restart fixes it until I tab out of game ONCE. Or dont know... it's retarded.

Anyways... I restarted again, and went to Counter Strike 2 first tabbed around then saved, all shows fine, I exit and restart the game, still works, then I exit again and I start ARK game, I saved, shows how I exit counter strike and went to ark.
Andddddddd.... that's where it broke, tabing out of ARK, I went back to counter strike after and it was still broken. Doesn't show my desktop how I enter game only saves from point I entered game from.

Restarted again, went to Rocket League, all fine... I went to HITMAN 2, it broke... first I thought it's ARK causing it but looks like it doesn't matter. I dont know what to do, this is HIGHLY disturbing I save a lot of gameplay every day if something funny or amazing happens I CANT have this problem.

I tested many games some are fine and 3 breaks it, ARK, Hitman2 and Tekken 8. I can switch games around those that works just fine, but as soon as I enter ONE of the those that breaks it then all my games are broken and can only fix it by PC restart.

Need suggestions... :S

(No PC shutdowns so far at least, but PC's always finds SOMETHING NEW to piss me off with in life, ugh)
 
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Having issues with nVidia Shadowplay for no reason today. Whenever I alt-tab games it resets the recording.
So if I ALT+F10 to save last 5min it just saves few seconds from when I tabbed back in.
I have recordings today of it working just fine, it recorded my desktop and me going to a game and playing. I only watched some YT videos and went playing another game, and issues since then, 0 logic.
I'm so fed up with this computers and their dumb random issues out of a blue.

I also hear this crackling sounds in my headset whenever I tab in and out... I'm so confused what's going on now for no reason.
I reinstalled drivers, restarted PC, went right in to a game (ARK) and saved, it showed me logging in to my PC account even and how I enter game, it was fixed and then I tried it again and it was broken again...
So PC restart fixes it until I tab out of game ONCE. Or dont know... it's retarded.

Anyways... I restarted again, and went to Counter Strike 2 first tabbed around then saved, all shows fine, I exit and restart the game, still works, then I exit again and I start ARK game, I saved, shows how I exit counter strike and went to ark.
Andddddddd.... that's where it broke, tabing out of ARK, I went back to counter strike after and it was still broken. Doesn't show my desktop how I enter game only saves from point I entered game from.

Restarted again, went to Rocket League, all fine... I went to HITMAN 2, it broke... first I thought it's ARK causing it but looks like it doesn't matter. I dont know what to do, this is HIGHLY disturbing I save a lot of gameplay every day if something funny or amazing happens I CANT have this problem.

I tested many games some are fine and 3 breaks it, ARK, Hitman2 and Tekken 8. I can switch games around those that works just fine, but as soon as I enter ONE of the those that breaks it then all my games are broken and can only fix it by PC restart.

Need suggestions... :S

(No PC shutdowns so far at least, but PC's always finds SOMETHING NEW to piss me off with in life, ugh)
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Just check how much of RAM is showing up. Is it 32GB or only 16GB.
 
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Well.... here comes another PC restart, during Counter Strike 2 (for the first time), usually it's always in Monster Hunter World or ARK (was once, and I lost 20 days of hard work cause some of my files corruped cause of it that day, actually was twice, 2nd time it didn't corrupt to my luck)
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Chipset drivers:
https://www.amd.com/en/support/downloads/drivers.html/chipsets/am4/b450.html
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I guess I should try this next? Or did windows took care of that already. I'm so stressed, even my mouse started glitching for no reason in Rocket League, nothing goes right, just new issues out of nothing.

Any way to test GPU to know if it's defeted and may need replacement or should I send it to some shop to do it for me?

I've been playing Cyberpunk and Forza Horizon 5 for the past 2 days, no issues, dont know why today just instant crash after I joined CS2, I was doing some excel work for 8 hours, wanted to just take a break and play something and it just shut down after 2-3 rounds. Then I instantly returned to game to continue match, and after 2 more rounds game just froze and had some weird barely seen screen flashes and I force close it and restarted again and finished the match then quit to write this.
 
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I have a B450 chipset motherboard and some of the drivers on their support page are almost 5 years old. I was experiencing intermittent network disconnections a few times per day recently until I updated the Intel onboard NIC driver. Not had a network issue since,
 
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And here i thought i'll pop up after a month saying everything is fine now. Just had another shut down, but at least i survived 23 days.

Tho I did kind of push it by having Forza Horizon 5 + 3x Bluestacks Phone game emulator sessions open at the time.

But Error is same as always:
A fatal hardware error has occurred.

Reported by component: Processor Core
Error Source: Machine Check Exception
Error Type: Bus/Interconnect Error
Processor APIC ID: 0

The details view of this entry contains further information.
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EDIT: Ok I just found 470+ errors from 4pm to 6pm of this:
The description for Event ID 153 from source nvlddmkm cannot be found. Either the component that raises this event is not installed on your local computer or the installation is corrupted. You can install or repair the component on the local computer.

If the event originated on another computer, the display information had to be saved with the event.
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I did kind of installed new GPU drivers today, guess i'll reinstall that, but holy moly always some random bullshit with this PC's.


EDIT2: Dont know if it helped.

But basically what was going on was.... I have Bluestacks on 2nd screen and while playing my main game I click off screen to do things and randomly when I do that, both screens turn black until I tab back in to main game on 1st screen.

And yesterday while that happened again and I wanted to tab back in just to realise my PC restarted.

No restarts today but this black screen issues persists, + I also noticed Discord goes blank if i leave it on 2nd screen sometimes, but not always, maybe there's a connection (but my friend has same issue with Discord)

Anyways trying to add as much info i can remember of weird things happening.
I also use SHIFT+WindowsKey+S to use snip tool to make quick pictures in games, and when i do that in my game it makes some grapical flickering and also got black screen randomly after until i managed to tab back in game.

EDIT3: I restarted my PC and went back to game, I got a message from a friend on Steam where I had chat on 2nd screen, when i clicked the chat i had black screen instantly, i tabbed back in game and out again and it was ok after. But can still result in random black screen while i'm chatting off screen. And also when I actually try to alt-tab sometimes it just goes black instantly. This started happening yesterday. (But as said i also updated GPU drivers yesterday, maybe issue on their end?) Still it's weird i had pc restart with same issue as in past.. >.< After updating chipset drivers i had no issues so was finally starting to be happy. I guess life really loves to troll me.

EDIT4: After further testing, it's seems to be happening on games that can't be alt-tabed to desktop, meaning when you try to alt-tab no matter what you do it wont show desktop, so black screen issues is in full-screen games like that.

Anyways I moved steam/discord chat on 1st montitor and i can tab to it just fine without isssues, and when i try to drag it to 2nd from 1st i get instant black screen. Or browser, anything i try to drag to 2nd screen while game is ON i get black screen and it comes back if i just drag it back to 1st while still holding it.
 
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Fresh install right. Did you wipe the SSD of all the partitions and stuff.
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nah it's part of windows update, if i do fresh it's windows 10 again lol, which i might just do cause i'm losing my mind with all the bullshit, just had another crash, was fine for almost a month then out of nothing, i think nvidia released bad drivers, can't think of anything else as it started happening after new driver update, and can't downgrade to old to test it's grayed out, must be cause i reinstalled it first.
 
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nah it's part of windows update, if i do fresh it's windows 10 again lol, which i might just do cause i'm losing my mind with all the bullshit, just had another crash, was fine for almost a month then out of nothing, i think nvidia released bad drivers, can't think of anything else as it started happening after new driver update, and can't downgrade to old to test it's grayed out, must be cause i reinstalled it first.
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Oh. Yeah if it becomes unusable then fresh install it. Do transfer all the important stuff to Storage Disk before that. But yes if it is being unusable that may be the solution.
 
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Well Nvidia just released new GPU drivers so above issues seems to be fixed, but my PC is still crashing during gaming.

Now I can't think of anything anymore, it's either GPU came broken or my CPU is not working well with it or having issues now under heavy load (as i bent some pins long time ago when cleaning stuff and had to fix them but never ever had any issues). Or it's just PSU cables cause i had to use one pigtail and i should order some special cable with 3 connectors i dont know... dont even know the name of the cable which to order.

EDIT:
https://www.corsair.com/us/en/p/pc-...-5-12vhpwr-600w-cable-type-4-black-cp-8920331

Could it be this one?
 
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