Hi, so last year I got my son a new amd ryzen 7 graphics and an Aorus GeForce rtx 3070 master but he has been having problems all year so I'm looking to get a new case, motherboard and memory cards, would someone be able to tell me what ones I would be looking to get thanks
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Which Ryzen 7 exactly? We need the model number since otherwise the board/memory may not be compatible.
I think overheating and his screen going black, even after I bought him a new monitor
when did this start happening?
could you take a picture of the computer and also monitor the temperatures during gaming?
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I'd suggest a B550 motherboard (most likely to work without BIOS update and has PCI-E 4.0 graphics), though other options are: B450, A520, X470, X570 (if the board does not have BIOS flashback, it must have a compatible BIOS).
You need DDR4 memory (up to 3600, but 3000 or 3200 is fine). Case: ATX if you buy ATX motherboard, or MATX if you buy MATX motherboard.
I'd strongly recommend you follow the troubleshooting path though, because you could buy this stuff and it doesn't fix the problem. Also, DDR4 is really expensive right now, I'd hold onto what you have at first, or buy used.
If you plan on paying new retail prices for AM4/DDR4, you're better off (better value for money) upgrading to AM5 instead of trying to fix this.
My basket at OcUK:
- 1 x Asus TUF Gaming B550-Plus WIFI II (AMD AM4) B550 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MB-6HX-AS) = £119.99
- 1 x Team Group 8Pack Edition 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 PC4-28800C18 3600MHz Dual Channel Ki (SKU: MEM-8PK-02586) = £119.99
- 1 x PHANTEKS Eclipse G370A - ATX Mid-Tower Case - Black (SKU: CAS-PHK-05088) = £54.90
Total: £306.86 (includes delivery: £11.98)
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It's been doing it since Xmas when I got the new cpu and gpu, he said it was going up to 80 depending
80c is fine - not the best, but it's fine - 5700x max is 95c and 3070 max is 87c
what cooler and power supply are you using?
does the case have good airflow (what is the case?)
have you done any stress tests?
(i mean the easiest way is to swap everything out, but if this were my money i would want to know that it's actually faulty hardware before spending my hard-earned money)
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Thanks for this, I was thinking because I got the upgrades last year that I might be better off replacing the case and the stuff inside rather than buy him a full pc since the pc is a few years old
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sounds like either the cooling system needs a slight rething [hardware or the fan curves] or something along those lines rather than the board/cpu/gpu etc
id at least investigate the cooler setup before firing the old parts cannon at it
might just need an extra/different fan or moving it to not conflict with another/remove the coat thats hung over the vent or something [last one was mostly a joke but you get what i mean]
id at least investigate the cooler setup before firing the old parts cannon at it
might just need an extra/different fan or moving it to not conflict with another/remove the coat thats hung over the vent or something [last one was mostly a joke but you get what i mean]
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Overheating tends to be a mix of a case with poor airflow and/or a inadequate cooler but black screening leans towards a fault with the gpu. The Nvidia 3000 series need a strong psu due to the voltage spikes that they suffer from. I had a Gigabyte RTX 3070 Vision OC and the voltage spikes were terrible, so bad in fact that the high quality 650w psu I had couldn't cope with it and games kept crashing and black screening. It was only sorted when I switched to my current Corsair RM850x.
When you fitted the 5700x did you flash the motherboard to the latest bios? If not that could also be a problem in that the 5700x isn't fully supported on the current version. Before you go buying anything flash the motherboard bios and then try the cpu again.
Also before you go spending any money could you tell us the exact make and model of motherboard and the make and model of the psu along with what case he's using and how the cooling is set up? Let's see if we can save you £300 because you could spend all that money only to be still having problems.
When you fitted the 5700x did you flash the motherboard to the latest bios? If not that could also be a problem in that the 5700x isn't fully supported on the current version. Before you go buying anything flash the motherboard bios and then try the cpu again.
Also before you go spending any money could you tell us the exact make and model of motherboard and the make and model of the psu along with what case he's using and how the cooling is set up? Let's see if we can save you £300 because you could spend all that money only to be still having problems.
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Well, what you've got is more than fine, if it works, but if the only way of troubleshooting is to start swapping stuff out, AM4 is not great value anymore and it makes more sense to buy into the newer platform. DDR5 is pretty much the same price (or even cheaper!) than DDR4 and there are lots of affordable (~£80-£150) AM5 motherboards.
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absolutely agree with now being a bad time to buy an am4 build or build one and a great time if you happen to be selling ddr4 and am4 parts it seems
last week or so ive been heavily looking into making the leap to am5 and yeah seeing how much the parts ive got are going for and seeing how much not more it is to get the am5 parts id have to get for said upgrade...........