Advice please on first time build

Mary Jane

Mary Jane

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Looking to get my son(12) a gaming pc for Christmas. He’s wanting to play steam games with his Oculus VR. Hubby is more than capable of assembling but we would like help with the best components please. We have a budget of £1200 for everything apart from a monitor which we have. Thanks in advance.
 
Tetras said:
What is the monitor resolution?

The CPU cooler in the below is optional (there's one in the CPU box).

My basket at OcUK:

Total: £1,202.42 (includes delivery: £0.00)​
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Hi we went with this configuration but windows just keeps crashing, we’ve updated drivers on MSI and AmD and Nvidia - not sure where else to start? On windows 11
 
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Kingston FURY Beast EXPO 32GB (2x16GB) DDR5 PC5-44800C36 5600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KF556C36BBEK2-32)
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Hi we went with the configuration suggested but windows just keeps crashing, we’ve updated drivers on MSI and AmD and Nvidia - not sure where else to start? On windows 11 any ideas?
 
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Tetras said:
I'm sorry to hear that.

Can you describe "crash" in more detail please, what do you mean by crash? E.g. Blue screen? Crash to Windows desktop? Black screen with audio until you hit restart?

Does it crash only when e.g. playing games, or at other times too?

Is EXPO enabled, or disabled?

Do you have any motherboard/RGB software installed?
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Bue screen random - can be ok for a while but crash when downloading occulus app for example. Sometimes crashes the moment you get into windows before even done anything?
Downloaded motherboard andrgb software and nvidia app. What is expo?
 
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Mary Jane said:
Bue screen random - can be ok for a while but crash when downloading occulus app for example. Sometimes crashes the moment you get into windows before even done anything?
Downloaded motherboard andrgb software and nvidia app. What is expo?
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We have been also getting a blck screen but reinstalled windows and got back in but keep geting the blue screen at different times so wonder if windows 10 better
 
hornetstinger said:
In BIOS there are EXPO settings, once you set that it'll automatically set all timings correctly

Although in default mode, it should still be stable, it will just run in at a slower speed with slacker timings- so won't be as fast.

Try one stick at a time first, reseating each stick maybe not fully straight into the memory slot etc.

Check CPU temps as well.
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Ok will have a look at sticks but temp has been all ok
 
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