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Ryzen 3900X thread

jigger said:
I've bought a lot of CPU's in my time (by the tray many times) and I think I've had two faulty that I can remember. One Intel P4 that refused to set the correct BUS and one Xeon that died out of the blue. That's out of thousands of chips.

I'd be tempted to find a junk 24 pin ATX board, CPU and memory to test that PSU. I'd also check for shorts between the case and motherboard.
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Parts are already on the way back to OC. The problem is that my second chip took 2 weeks to fail and the first one either failed right away and I did not know it or it was faulty from the factory. Either way, I have had 2 chips with the exact same failure which is highly suspect.

I picked up on the second chip failure a lot quicker because of the symptoms I was experiencing. Also, the problems occurred right after the system did a hard reset for no reason and then it would not post.

I did test the PSU with my old Intel system and I encountered no problems for over 2 weeks but that may have been luck. Not sure, all I know is that I want a working system ASAP because that is what I paid for (this is not a shot at OC or their staff as they have been very helpful).
 
Just taken the plunge on one of these after seeing it at the best price since launch. It was a toss up between this and the 3950X but having read/watched some more reviews this evening the two were so close in gaming that I couldn't justify the extra for the 3950X. I'll be stepping up from a i7 4930K.

Ordered the rest of my bits from Overclockers. Gone for the Auros X570 Pro, 32GB Crucial Ballistix E-die and a 128GB NVME drive for the OS. Cooling will be curtesy of a new EKWB Velocity CPU block paired with an existing EK Coolstream 480 XTX radiator. My GTX 1080 will be carried over along with the rest of my drives, sound card and other bits and pieces. Should be quite an upgrade :D
 
Saltcreek said:
Parts are already on the way back to OC. The problem is that my second chip took 2 weeks to fail and the first one either failed right away and I did not know it or it was faulty from the factory. Either way, I have had 2 chips with the exact same failure which is highly suspect.

I picked up on the second chip failure a lot quicker because of the symptoms I was experiencing. Also, the problems occurred right after the system did a hard reset for no reason and then it would not post.

I did test the PSU with my old Intel system and I encountered no problems for over 2 weeks but that may have been luck. Not sure, all I know is that I want a working system ASAP because that is what I paid for (this is not a shot at OC or their staff as they have been very helpful).
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Feel for you hope you get this sorted ASAP.
 
ToTheMax said:
Crunchy all the way, anything else doesn't sit right with me.
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Crunchy is the only way to fill in the tiny gaps left between the processor and heatsink, I mean just think about it logically.

LtMatt said:
Ugh what a pain in the rear. That said you can use the stock cooler for now as that comes pre-applied with paste.

I swapped the paste out for liquid metal to get better temperatures though.
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The paste should be here tomorrow, so I am just going to wait until then so I don't have to reapply twice, plus I don't want my AIO block to just hang down in my case.
 
To the mod you don't need to ban him, the joke is that it's nuts. The adeptus mechanicus are nuts, crazy and completely mad. The meme is from warhammer 40k. They build and worship technology but don't understand how it works.

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