Aquinus
Resident Wat-man
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- Jan 28, 2012
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- Concord, NH, USA
System Name | Apollo |
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Processor | Intel Core i9 9880H |
Motherboard | Some proprietary Apple thing. |
Memory | 64GB DDR4-2667 |
Video Card(s) | AMD Radeon Pro 5600M, 8GB HBM2 |
Storage | 1TB Apple NVMe, 4TB External |
Display(s) | Laptop @ 3072x1920 + 2x LG 5k Ultrafine TB3 displays |
Case | MacBook Pro (16", 2019) |
Audio Device(s) | AirPods Pro, Sennheiser HD 380s w/ FIIO Alpen 2, or Logitech 2.1 Speakers |
Power Supply | 96w Power Adapter |
Mouse | Logitech MX Master 3 |
Keyboard | Logitech G915, GL Clicky |
Software | MacOS 12.1 |
my screen would freeze and instantly screen tear and look like it was put together after being through a paper shredder.
Hello. First of all, I think you're using the term tear wrong. Just telling us that the machine is locking up is sufficient. There is a lot of info and it's kind of all over the place so it's a little hard to understand.
I guess the first questions (which should always be asked is,) are you overclocking? I see that you have a 925 @ 2.8Ghz which isn't an overclock but you're running DDR3-1600 which, for the 925 is an overclock since the stock memory speed is 1333Mhz.
I would start by dropping your memory speed to 1333Mhz and testing it again to see if it makes a difference. I've seen quite a few Phenom II owners who have run into memory instability and upping the CPU/NB voltage or dropping to 1333Mhz usually smooths it out. My rigs (both my SB-E and P2 rigs,) have behave like this when when the memory clocks weren't completely stable.