Many good reasons here why I'm perfectly happy with my GTX 1050 and 1080p screen. No headaches, good gaming ... :-)

Recommending memtest as well


My ram experience:

I got ram in 2017 DDR4 3000MHZ. It did not want to boot at 3000 but at 29something it did. CPU AMD 1600

No major issues with it until 2022 (but occasionally some games would crash without reason) when i got new mobo, b450, 5600 and 6700xt

Suddenly in some games, later i figured out, in directx12 games, crashes.

GTA5. I put 80h. maybe 2 crashes. Tomb Raider 2013 19h one crash.

Horizon Zero Dawn. crashes randomly, immediately or within 10min of gaming

CP77 immediate crash.


Run Memtest and in single test, no 6, my ram spewed errors aborting the test. There was something wrong with

Stole my wife's ram, same model. viola no more crashes (well. CP77 with mods crashed once and once in a while crashes when quiting to desktop)

Do recommend running memtest. at 5600 at 5800 and 6k

AMD boards are generally very picky when it comes to RAM, so do not go beyond its bounds...
Personally i made good experience with G.Skill and of course always use RAM specifically made for AMD. They usually got a EXPO profile which is AMDs counterpart to Intels XMP. On compatible boards it should be safe to use, but still... if there is any stability issues... use stock clocks and make sure the memory is not the culprit.

In general, if there is critical stability issues, most of time it is a hardware issue. Software issues are generally a bit softer, most of the times it may not crash the entire system, instead just the task involved (there can be exceptions, of course). Make sure the OS is not corrupted, Windows got a internal tool in order to check the integrity and eventually replace corrupted stuff.

In some cases some critical drivers may cause critical issues aswell, sure... but generally it may simply produce a weak instability, not huge crashes of the entire system or what else.

I think you may clock down your stuff, do not undervolt (told it many times already... this is something advanced IF and only IF your system ls almost bulletproof already).

A defective PSU is possible, although the RMA risk on a new PSU from Corsair or Seasonic (both brands got the highest reliability of any gamer PSUs) is way lower than 1%, so it is very rarely the culprit. With the exception of insufficient power, but on a 1000W PSU this possibility can safely be excluded.

Hardware parts with high risk of causing issues is RAM and unfortunately the mainboard... both pieces are in my experience prone to failures of many kind. CPU and PSU is one of the most reliable parts... as long as sufficient power provided and no broken pins or other beginner-failures.

So it was unstable memory oc all along? The new gpu pushed the system further, or dumped 400W+ of heat around RAM's heatsink after all? Seems legit to me. I'm sorry if I began with more advanced things first, it goes without saying that first you have to have rock solid base before going further with oc or uv. Since this is indeed just gog forum, it's hard to know on what level each user is. Some are pure plug 'n players, others write their own drivers. Anyway, since you have used ddu I don't think there would be any remnants of the old gpu vendor junk. One step at a time - You can do it dude, I believe in you.

Lets be honest: I does not matter what you paid for, first you will need a stable system, other matters comes second.

For any serious help, the exact system spec in use is critical, because dependable on the parts some different matters may have to be taken into account.

Of course, throw out any non required software during gaming, if there is instability it should always run with as low odds as possible...

If your RAM got some solid gaming heatsink attached, it usually takes a lot of heat for them to cause "crashing". I dare to say... many other parts may crash way sooner than that, if it comes to heat.

The memory performed fine at 6000 when playing with my 3070 on the same mobo. I guess I didn't realize a higher-end card could cause it to be more unstable. Or a higher-end PSU, since with that PSU it still crashes with my 3070.

Anyway we'll see if it crashes today at 5600, it's worked for a bit before and then reverted back to crashing. If it stays stable I'll put it back at 6000 and run a test.

Edit: Oh it's Kingston "Fury Beast" RAM btw. KF560C36BBEAK2-32

The only reason why it may become more unstable is because of to much heat, but not on the RAM, very unlikely... rather because the motherboard is heating up in general and thus not able to tackle the pretty high specs anymore. Indeed, a huge GPU can heat up a motherboard very bad... especially when not enough airflow and no capable heat sinks attached.

Sounds very unrealistic to me having the PSU or (the same) RAM maklng failures... the PSU simply will do its job as long as the load doesnt exceed its limits. RAM, i already told... if there is heatsink attached it is very difficult heating them up to much. They could handle well above 80 C and still keep stable, but in general with good sink, it may not even exceed 50 C.... simply very difficult to reach something critical.

Not talking about the GPU RAM... this is another story because cards simply can heat up a lot without proper cooling. There is no GPU cooler to big... as long as it fits it is always good to have. It simply have to fit, thats the only limitation. More cooling = more performance for any GPU, very easy rule. Sometimes there can be critical hotspots on the card, even if the processor in theory is preventing itself from overheatng; some hotspots are still able to overheat and ultimately leading to a crash.

Well god knows really but in my endless googling on the crapper I found a post by a guy who had the same issue as me with the same exact hardware. He said there was one RAM setting he changed that fixed all of it. In bios change from auto to "UCLK=MEMCLK." I did that earlier today, and now with RAM at 6000 through XMP I have had no crashes in a few hours of gaming.

Obviously it needs more testing though, we'll see.

For memory testing I recommend TestMem5. About two years ago, when I was doing this stuff, MemTest86 found errors after almost 4 hours. But TestMem5 was usually finding the errors in less than half an hour - and it works on Windows.

I tested the RAM, it's fine. It also worked perfectly for months before changing the card. I just played another two hours with no issue. It seems to have been that weird setting and some kind of conflict with Radeon hardware or drivers.

If it starts crashing again tomorrow though, god knows...

Glad you got it working. Off course you did say you had the same problem when switching back to your 3070...
The problem with UEFI , too many settings too little documentation.

No crashes in days now, it was definitely the "UCLK=MEMCLK" setting in the bios. Thank god I found that random post because I never would have figured that out.

Enjoying playing games now, phew.

\o/ \o/ \o/

Forspoken here we gooo ;P

Awsome news.
A single setting can turn a good machine into a nightmare, I wonder how many people were in the same spot but unable to find the culprit...
As stated above, BIOS's are very poorly documented for the most part and some times the description of a setting doesn't even meke sense, if there's one. No standard across vendors doesn't help either.

Well, it's all good now, you may need to crank up th AC unit on the summer though.

Hahahaha. I have played some Wittcher 3 with ray tracing just to get an idea of how it does under 100% load. Nothing else I'm playing at the moment gets anywhere close. It seems okay, but yeah it definitely spews out some heat!