goshsowitty
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After 10 years it was time to build a new gaming PC on a relatively small budget but something that would last hopefully another 10 years (at a push), so I bought and built this over Christmas and New Year:
PCPartPicker Part List
Type Item Price
All went smoothly and for the most part the PC runs great for a little while.
In some games, but not all, I can get 10-20 minutes of gameplay before the PC freezes and reboots.
In Fortnite on recommended auto settings I get about 15 minutes if I'm lucky. In Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 I got about 5 minutes. Fornite can be played for much longer if we turn down the graphics settings a little.
In The Sims 4 my partner was able to play non-stop for hours without issue.
In 3D Mark stress tests it can run 20 passes without issue.
Throughout all of this the system temps are all fine.
Windows (11) logs Event 46, WHEA-Logger which implies RAM:
Occasionally, but not consistently, we get Event 18, WHEA-Logger:
Due to the Event 46 I obviously suspected RAM initially. Windows Memory Diagnostic and memtest86 are both clear. I also tried both RAM sticks in the other two dual channel slots, and each RAM stick individually in all slots but we still get the crashes. I experience the issue regardless of the XMP profile of the RAM.
The build details above do not include the original PSU I bought for the build. I realised I bought a pretty bad PSU initially by all accounts - a Gamemax GM 700W. I replaced it with the Corsair TX650M when I realised that Gamemax stuff is not particularly highly thought of. Unfortunately, while I got longer than usual tonight with the Corsair PSU, it eventually crashed after 18 minutes (playing Fornite).
This was the cheapest most suspect part of the build so I don't lose anything by RMAing the original one and ending up with a better PSU but it hasn't significantly helped.
Aside from what I've already mentioned I've done the following:
Today I have run stress tests in Prime95, OCTT, HeavyLoad and Furmark and none of them have exhibited any issue.
Some dumps analyzed with Windbg:
At this point, I'm not entirely sure what more I can do to troubleshoot. So I am hoping people have suggestions for what I might be able to do to test, and stress the build quicker and more consistently and to narrow down the issue. Or if anyone else may have experienced anything similar.
Thanks so much if you're still reading to here. Very grateful for any help.
PCPartPicker Part List
Type Item Price
CPU | AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 3.7 GHz 6-Core Processor | £160.99 @ Amazon UK |
Motherboard | Gigabyte B550 AORUS ELITE AX V2 ATX AM4 Motherboard | £140.99 @ Technextday |
Memory | Corsair Vengeance LPX 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory | £87.49 @ Amazon UK |
Storage | Crucial P5 Plus 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive | £86.31 @ CCL Computers |
Video Card | PowerColor Fighter Radeon RX 6700 XT 12 GB Video Card | £414.11 @ Amazon UK |
Case | Lian Li LANCOOL II-W ATX Mid Tower Case | £109.95 @ Amazon UK |
Power Supply | Corsair TX650M Gold 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply | £79.98 @ Amazon UK |
Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts | ||
Total | £1079.82 | |
Generated by PCPartPicker 2023-01-05 00:04 GMT+0000 |
In some games, but not all, I can get 10-20 minutes of gameplay before the PC freezes and reboots.
In Fortnite on recommended auto settings I get about 15 minutes if I'm lucky. In Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 I got about 5 minutes. Fornite can be played for much longer if we turn down the graphics settings a little.
In The Sims 4 my partner was able to play non-stop for hours without issue.
In 3D Mark stress tests it can run 20 passes without issue.
Throughout all of this the system temps are all fine.
Windows (11) logs Event 46, WHEA-Logger which implies RAM:
Code:
A fatal hardware error has occurred.
Component: Memory
Error Source: Machine Check Exception
Occasionally, but not consistently, we get Event 18, WHEA-Logger:
Code:
A fatal hardware error has occurred.
Reported by component: Processor Core
Error Source: Machine Check Exception
Error Type: Bus/Interconnect Error
Processor APIC ID: 0
Due to the Event 46 I obviously suspected RAM initially. Windows Memory Diagnostic and memtest86 are both clear. I also tried both RAM sticks in the other two dual channel slots, and each RAM stick individually in all slots but we still get the crashes. I experience the issue regardless of the XMP profile of the RAM.
The build details above do not include the original PSU I bought for the build. I realised I bought a pretty bad PSU initially by all accounts - a Gamemax GM 700W. I replaced it with the Corsair TX650M when I realised that Gamemax stuff is not particularly highly thought of. Unfortunately, while I got longer than usual tonight with the Corsair PSU, it eventually crashed after 18 minutes (playing Fornite).
This was the cheapest most suspect part of the build so I don't lose anything by RMAing the original one and ending up with a better PSU but it hasn't significantly helped.
Aside from what I've already mentioned I've done the following:
- Updated the BIOS to the latest available revision (it wasn't too far behind)
- Updated all AMD chipset/graphics drivers
Today I have run stress tests in Prime95, OCTT, HeavyLoad and Furmark and none of them have exhibited any issue.
Some dumps analyzed with Windbg:
Code:
MODULE_NAME: AuthenticAMD
IMAGE_NAME: AuthenticAMD.sys
STACK_COMMAND: .cxr; .ecxr ; kb
FAILURE_BUCKET_ID: LKD_0x124_0_AuthenticAMD_PROCESSOR__UNKNOWN_IMAGE_AuthenticAMD.sys
OSPLATFORM_TYPE: x64
OSNAME: Windows 10
FAILURE_ID_HASH: {f59f17e7-f24e-04f5-3f16-e9425b2acba5}
Code:
MODULE_NAME: AuthenticAMD
IMAGE_NAME: AuthenticAMD.sys
STACK_COMMAND: .cxr; .ecxr ; kb
FAILURE_BUCKET_ID: LKD_0x124_0_AuthenticAMD_MEMORY__UNKNOWN_FATAL_IMAGE_AuthenticAMD.sys
OSPLATFORM_TYPE: x64
OSNAME: Windows 10
FAILURE_ID_HASH: {5ce15480-df81-5c3f-8bd4-ee19bb0b5a9a}
At this point, I'm not entirely sure what more I can do to troubleshoot. So I am hoping people have suggestions for what I might be able to do to test, and stress the build quicker and more consistently and to narrow down the issue. Or if anyone else may have experienced anything similar.
Thanks so much if you're still reading to here. Very grateful for any help.