PC with stunning graphics is extremely unreliable
PC with stunning graphics is extremely unreliable
Hello from France! I’m a freelance IT manager for an event service company. My technical director gave me one of their computers that functions as "vMix stations" – similar to OBS for mixing and live streaming. The issue is these machines are unreliable. Once I turn on the Multi Core Enhancement, they fail after just a few minutes of playing Counter-Strike Global Offensive (CSGO). Sometimes it happens right when the game starts, other times during a Cinebench test, and even when idle. I stopped using the enhancement thinking it was unnecessary, but I’ve heard reports of crashes during events without it either.
At the time, the system ran BIOS version 1.30 with default settings. I enabled XMP profile, installed a fresh Windows 10 22H2 OS, used Intel drivers from ASRock (which didn’t work), Nvidia drivers from Nvidia, and set up a 4U SilverStone RM44 case with a 1500W Corsair HX1500i power supply. The setup included 3 Noctua fans, 2 Noctua NF-A8 fans, and 4 x 16GB DDR4 3000MHz RAM. I also had a GeForce RTX 4080 and one or two Blackmagic Design acquisition cards. I’m not sure what’s causing the problems.
MCE is mainly just a trick. On consumer forums it can help push a modest boost on older models like the i5-7400, but with an i9 you won’t see much extra gain compared to a regular overclock. Edited March 14, 2023 by Fasauceome
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I used a brand new Samsung 980 SSD for my tests, but I'm also considering Hard Disk Sentinel just in case. My evaluations involved two consecutive fresh setups of Windows 11 followed by Windows 10, which rules out malware issues. I believed driver update tools caused more problems than they solved, but since these are temporary Windows versions, I'm willing to experiment. Any other advice you have?