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Im not sure if this is the right thread to post about this but this is really pissing me off. Theres a hardware issue with my pc where if I play high intensity games like rdr2 or siege it will blue screen. Is there any program that will test all of your pcs hardware and tell you what needs to be fixed?
 
Nottafed said:
Sold my 6700XT today with 2 1/2 yrs left on it
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What you mean with "2 1/2 yrs left on it"? thats is gonna explode or just that it wont be able to run any new games 2 1/2 yrs from now?
Judge Dredd said:
Yes. It's fairly bog standard. 2 fans in the front, exhaust out the back
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It more important to get the hot air out, I would got with 2 exhaust fans instead.
 
King Of The Kiwis said:
Im not sure if this is the right thread to post about this but this is really pissing me off. Theres a hardware issue with my pc where if I play high intensity games like rdr2 or siege it will blue screen. Is there any program that will test all of your pcs hardware and tell you what needs to be fixed?
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Check your thermals, check your power supply.
 
The Mass Shooter Ron Soye said:
Bundles with 64 GB of DDR5 instead of 16-32? God damn.
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Yeah it's been deal of the year really. You get 12 cores running at 5.5+ ghz, decent enough mobo and 64gb of good enough ddr5.

My wife got her bundle for like $450 because they had a pricing error one day and I jumped all over it.

I didn't even need 12 cores, but I was replacing my 5600x (mobo quit on me) and I just couldn't pass on a bundle like that.
 
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King Of The Kiwis said:
Im not sure if this is the right thread to post about this but this is really pissing me off. Theres a hardware issue with my pc where if I play high intensity games like rdr2 or siege it will blue screen. Is there any program that will test all of your pcs hardware and tell you what needs to be fixed?
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What kinda bluescreen do you get ? There should be a stop code on the screen that can give you more information.
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You can also try something like BlueScreenView to check if the bluescreens left behind any information.
Getting the stop code from either of these is usually the first step to finding out why the bluescreen is happening.
 
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What kinda bluescreen do you get ? There should be a stop code on the screen that can give you more information.
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You can also try something like BlueScreenView to check if the bluescreens left behind any information.
Getting the stop code from either of these is usually the first step to finding out why the bluescreen is happening.
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I got:
Stop code: CRITICAL PROCESS DIED
 
King Of The Kiwis said:
I got:
Stop code: CRITICAL PROCESS DIED
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good luck, it can be literally anything (in my case it was a faulty system drive). check temps, check power drawer, if that's good that's where the fun begins. you could try something like prime95 to see if the load without GPU is enough (which means it's most likely not the gpu for example).
 
King Of The Kiwis said:
I got:
Stop code: CRITICAL PROCESS DIED
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Have you tried updating/clean installing your drivers? I'd do both chipset and graphics. Worth a try before diving into any hardware.

Also, see if it can complete a FurMark test on full settings. That way you can see if it's your graphics card causing it. Then run CPU burner for a while and see if that causes crash.
 
King Of The Kiwis said:
I got:
Stop code: CRITICAL PROCESS DIED
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In addition to what the others said, you may want to try out the standard windows self-repair stuff to rule out that its just some OS file being broken/corrupted.

Checking your HDD for problems with something like CrystalDiskInfo is probably also a good idea.
The program displays S.M.A.R.T values that can show if a drive is failing. Just take a screenshot of the drive your OS is on and post it here. Maybe add other drives too if you have them.

Lastly you can also test your RAM, but that is a bit more time consuming.
 
Not related to the current blue screen trouble shooting. I want to share a story you might enjoy, or hate.

I was having problems with CPU temps, decided to swap the stock downdraft cooler for a tower cooler. On opening the case the problem was obvious. A downdraft cooler flanked on all sides by tall things like RAM, GPU, and VRMs? (The big L shaped block with capacitors under half of it.)

The swap itself didn't go well. Unscrewed the cooler, but it was stuck solid. A little force, and it pulled the CPU out of it's socket. It was stuck so well I had to pry it off with a screwdriver.

I was concerned about damage to the board or bending of the CPU, but didn't see anything. However, a single pin was bent on the CPU. The trusty screwdriver came to the rescue again and I straightened it out. Surprisingly, this worked. I'm currently writing this post on that very machine. I'm going to give it a few days, see if it blue screens or anything, but so far there doesn't seem to be any lasting damage.

As for the results. Too early to tell, but current temps are better.
 
Judge Dredd said:
Not related to the current blue screen trouble shooting. I want to share a story you might enjoy, or hate.

I was having problems with CPU temps, decided to swap the stock downdraft cooler for a tower cooler. On opening the case the problem was obvious. A downdraft cooler flanked on all sides by tall things like RAM, GPU, and VRMs? (The big L shaped block with capacitors under half of it.)

The swap itself didn't go well. Unscrewed the cooler, but it was stuck solid. A little force, and it pulled the CPU out of it's socket. It was stuck so well I had to pry it off with a screwdriver.

I was concerned about damage to the board or bending of the CPU, but didn't see anything. However, a single pin was bent on the CPU. The trusty screwdriver came to the rescue again and I straightened it out. Surprisingly, this worked. I'm currently writing this post on that very machine. I'm going to give it a few days, see if it blue screens or anything, but so far there doesn't seem to be any lasting damage.

As for the results. Too early to tell, but current temps are better.
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Did you remove the cooler right after shutting the computer down? I've found when the paste is still lukewarm the vacuum effect isn't as strong.
 
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Car Won't Crank said:
Did you remove the cooler right after shutting the computer down? I've found when the paste is still lukewarm the vacuum effect isn't as strong.
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I did try that. Didn't seem to help, but it took a while to unscrew the old cooler so it was likely cool by then.

davids877 said:
Twist, don't pull.
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Tried that. I was putting so much force on it I was worried I'd break the pins or something, while the pull only took a little strength comparatively. I thought it was still screwed down, but putting my fingers under the screws showed they were definitely undone.
 
Another strike against AMD - FSR 2.1 and CAS both cause significant stutter in MW2. It's so wildly inconsistent on my 6700XT as to render the features useless. The average frame rate goes up a bit, but every few seconds, it will just pause for a moment - is it constantly recalibrating itself or something? DLSS2 on my 3050 Ti mobile has absolutely no problems. XeSS doesn't stutter, but it looks worse than any other upscaling option.
 
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Another strike against AMD - FSR 2.1 and CAS both cause significant stutter in MW2. It's so wildly inconsistent on my 6700XT as to render the features useless. The average frame rate goes up a bit, but every few seconds, it will just pause for a moment - is it constantly recalibrating itself or something? DLSS2 on my 3050 Ti mobile has absolutely no problems. XeSS doesn't stutter, but it looks worse than any other upscaling option.
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I played MW2 for the first time in like 6 months this week, thought I was fuckin nuts. Had FSR turned on and it ran like shit, turned it off and it ran fine*

*as fine as my 10 year old GPU can run it
 
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